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ClaroAI
Techstars '23Hod HaSharon, IL · Founded 2023 · 7 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
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Claro provides speech-to-speech AI technology that adjusts pronunciation and accents in real-time for online meetings, sales calls, and remote work. The software helps both speakers and listeners communicate more clearly across different English accents and pronunciation patterns.
Also known as Claro · Claro AI · ClaroAI Ltd.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026ClaroAI develops real-time speech-to-speech voice AI that performs accent conversion and corrects accent-related mispronunciations during online meetings. The software processes both outgoing and incoming audio: speakers can have their own voice adjusted toward a target audience's dialect, while listeners can select a preferred accent for the other party's voice. The stated design principle, summarized by the company as "minimal intervention, maximal clarity," is to alter the voice only enough to improve intelligibility while preserving each speaker's vocal identity and word choices.
The company frames the problem around virtual communication: with roughly 1.8 billion English speakers worldwide and hundreds of regional English accents, remote participants lack gestures, facial expressions and other nonverbal cues, making pronunciation differences a larger obstacle to comprehension for native and non-native speakers alike. Use cases described include sales calls, overseas trade, online classes, virtual team meetings, online job interviews and customer-facing teams. The company states the tool is privacy-centric and that no data is stored.
ClaroAI is classified as an AI and machine-learning software company spanning artificial intelligence, consumer software, deep tech, generative AI, internet applications and speech recognition verticals, with its product marketed as an AI voice filter that corrects pronunciation in real time.
Business model
ClaroAI distributes its product as an extension that works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, and the company's site states it is free for early joiners. IVC characterizes the business model as B2C targeting individuals, while other classifications describe recurring software revenue serving both enterprise and small-business customers. The company positions the offering as relevant to individuals and enterprises alike.
Revenue is classified as recurring software (SaaS). The product is currently offered free to early joiners.
Traction
Public indicators are limited: three employees as of January 2025, R&D company stage, and a free early-access release of the meeting extension.
Latest developments
Company records list an extended seed round dated July 1, 2025 and an R&D grant from a government fund dated August 1, 2025, both with undisclosed amounts. The company's website remains live, offering the Zoom, Meet and Teams extension free to early joiners, with a 2026 copyright notice.
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Market position
ClaroAI is an early-stage company classified at pre-seed/R&D stage with three employees, operating in the real-time accent and pronunciation AI voice category. Trackers group it alongside Echo, Tomato AI, Pinch, PlayAI, Sanas, BoldVoice, Vocal Clarity, Verbaly and other voice AI companies.
ClaroAI emphasizes bidirectional processing — modifying both the speaker's outgoing voice and the listener's incoming audio, with the listener able to choose a preferred accent — rather than one-directional accent conversion. It also emphasizes minimal modification that preserves each speaker's unique voice and word selection, and states that no user data is stored anywhere.
Technology
The company describes speech-to-speech technology built from the ground up by speech AI researchers, applying real-time accent neutralization and pronunciation correction to live meeting audio in both directions while retaining the original speaker's voice characteristics. The company states that no data is stored anywhere.
Go-to-market
The product is distributed as a downloadable extension for Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, promoted directly from the company's website with a free offer for early users and a contact email for inquiries. The company participated in the Techstars Tel Aviv accelerator in 2023.
Professionals who rely on clear remote communication, including sales teams, customer-facing teams, participants in overseas commerce, online instructors and job-interview candidates. Classifications list individuals as the target market and enterprise and small-business customers as segments.
Geography
ClaroAI Ltd. lists a main address in San Francisco, California, United States, and a branch office at 44 Jabotinski St., Hod Hasharon, Israel. Company trackers list the headquarters as San Francisco, CA. Geographic exposure is classified as global.
History
The company was founded in 2023 and took part in the Techstars Tel Aviv accelerator cohort that year. A funding round dated November 28, 2023 is recorded at $20k, with additional extended-seed entries dated March 27, 2024 and July 1, 2025 and an R&D grant dated August 1, 2025, all with undisclosed amounts. The company is classified at R&D stage with three employees, and continues to publish and distribute its meeting extension.
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Key figures
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Timeline · 5
launches, deals, and filingsIVC records an R&D grant dated August 1, 2025 from a government fund; the amount is not disclosed.
IVC lists a further extended seed round dated July 1, 2025, with an investment company as new investor. Amount and valuation are not disclosed.
IVC lists an extended seed round dated March 27, 2024, marked pre-seed stage, with a venture capital fund as new investor. Amount and valuation are not disclosed.
Company trackers record a funding round dated November 28, 2023 of $20k (USD), which is also reported as the company's total raised as of that date; IVC lists a Seed round on the same date with a general accelerator as new investor.
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ClaroAI is listed as a 2023 participant in the Techstars: Tel Aviv accelerator program.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does ClaroAI do?
- ClaroAI builds real-time speech-to-speech AI that softens accents and mispronunciations on both sides of online meetings.
- Who are ClaroAI's investors?
- ClaroAI's investors include RUNI Ventures, Techstars.
- Where is ClaroAI headquartered?
- ClaroAI is headquartered in Hod HaSharon, IL.