Voice evaluation platform Sonde Well being raises $19.25M

AI-enabled voice expertise platform Sonde Well being introduced it raised $19.25 million in a Collection B funding spherical led by Companions Funding, bringing its complete increase to $35.25 million.

KT Company, NEOM Firm and current traders additionally participated within the spherical, together with cofounder PureTech Well being and M Ventures.

WHAT IT DOES

Sonde Well being makes use of patented voice expertise to detect varied well being situations from biomarkers in an individual’s voice, together with analyzing respiratory health and detecting melancholy and nervousness.

WHAT IT’S FOR

The funding will assist construct out the corporate’s expertise to detect extra well being situations, develop its present respiratory and psychological health-monitoring applied sciences, and drive world business progress.

“Digital biomarkers have gotten a mainstay in healthcare. Immediately’s healthcare firms are realizing how vocal biomarkers can interact folks earlier of their well being. The info and insights present in voice can energy well being monitoring and affected person stratification so points can turn out to be obvious effectively earlier than a pricey medical occasion happens,” David Liu, CEO of Sonde Well being, stated in a press release.

“With voice and any listening machine, accessible and efficient well being monitoring may be made accessible to nearly all of the world.”

MARKET SNAPSHOT

Final month, Boston-based Sonde Well being garnered a $2 million strategic funding from South Korean telecommunications big KT Company. KT plans to make use of the tech to improve its AI-powered voice enterprise options and combine Sonde’s expertise into its telemedicine platform in Vietnam. 

Sonde Well being licensed its voice expertise from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and in 2018 acquired unique licensing agreements for the patent.

In 2020, the corporate launched its voice API to detect psychological sickness, saying that the instrument can detect vocal modifications that would sign one’s psychological state through 30-second audio clips and that it might be built-in into third-party apps. 

Throughout the top of the pandemic, it launched a vocal-screening instrument to detect respiratory sickness signs and purchased voice-based platform-maker NeuroLex Laboratories.