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Guava lands a $12.5M seed
Guava announced a $12.5 million seed round led by Acrew Capital to develop a full-stack voice AI platform for enterprises and business process outsourcers. The company, built on over a decade of voice AI research from Gridspace, aims to provide reliable and scalable voice agents that developers can control through code and business rules rather than prompts.
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Summary
Guava announced a $12.5 million seed round led by Acrew Capital to develop a full-stack voice AI platform for enterprises and business process outsourcers. The company, built on over a decade of voice AI research from Gridspace, aims to provide reliable and scalable voice agents that developers can control through code and business rules rather than prompts.
Tags
voice-ai · seed-funding · developer-platform · speech-recognition · enterprise-ai
Key entities
Guava (organization, 0.99) · Acrew Capital (organization, 0.99) · Gridspace (organization, 0.98) · Omri Dahan (person, 0.99) · Anthony Scodary (person, 0.95) · Nico Benitez (person, 0.95) · Lauren Kolodny (person, 0.98) · Marqeta (organization, 0.97) · Flourish Ventures (organization, 0.97) · WillowTree Ventures (organization, 0.97) · Clocktower Ventures (organization, 0.97) · Commerce Ventures (organization, 0.97) · Daytona (technology, 0.98) · Los Angeles (location, 0.99) · voice agents market (concept, 0.96)
Classification
reference · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 9 Nov 2026