Gladia

Founded
2022
Current Stage
Series A
Partnered Since
Series A
Valuation
N/D
Domain
Enterprise
Regions
EMEA
Investors
XAnge
Illuminate Financial
Sequoia Capital
XTX Ventures

Summary

Founded in Paris in 2022 by Jean-Louis Quéguiner, Gladia is building the world’s most developer-friendly real-time transcription and audio intelligence platform. Its proprietary ASR engine, Solaria, delivers multilingual, accent-tolerant, hallucination-free transcription across 100+ languages, supporting use cases from meeting assistants and contact centres to media platforms and voice agents. With a usage-based revenue model, Gladia already serves more than 1,400 customers, including global enterprises such as Samsung, Oracle, Microsoft, and Softbank. The company is now scaling its technical leadership and expanding its product suite to cement its position as a category-defining leader in the rapidly growing audio intelligence market.

Our Partnership

Partnering with Gladia’s founders at a pivotal stage of growth, we worked closely on organisational design and talent strategy to strengthen the company’s technical leadership. Our collaboration focused on identifying and securing a Chief Technology Officer with the depth of expertise and scaling experience required to advance Gladia’s world-class audio intelligence platform. With a proven background in building and leading high-performing product and engineering teams, this appointment equips Gladia with the leadership to accelerate innovation, expand its platform capabilities, and position the company as the category-defining leader in real-time transcription and audio intelligence worldwide.

Key activities

Key Activities

Valuable outcomes

$16M

Raised in Series A funding

100+

Languages available in Gladia's transcripts

150K+

Active users including Samsung, Oracle, Microsoft and Softbank