# Cartesia — Series A and the future of voice AI

- Company: Cartesia (cartesia.ai)
- Announced: 2025-03-11
- Category: funding-company-news
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/series-a
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8022-series-a-and-the-future-of-voice-ai
- Subject: Sonic / Ink
- Models affected: Sonic 2.0, Sonic

Cartesia announced a $64 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins. The company also launched Sonic 2.0, a voice generation model built on a new state space model architecture, with lower latency and new endpoints for voice changing and infill.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/series-a:

> We’re thrilled to announce our $64 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins. The new funding will help us expand our team and invest in research to build the next generation of models, infrastructure, and products for voice, starting with the launch of our latest voice generation model— Sonic 2.0 .

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