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DerbySoft and the Secret Life of a Hotel Room
A hotel room has to travel through a surprising number of computers before you can sleep in it. DerbySoft makes those computers agree - and is moving into the paperwork that follows you home.
Ylopo and the Buyer Who Wasn't Ready
Real estate runs on timing. Ylopo has built a business around the awkward months between a buyer's first click and the day they finally want to talk.
Mati Staniszewski and the voice he could not bear to hear
A flat Polish film voiceover stayed with Mati Staniszewski long after school. With his oldest friend, he turned that irritation into ElevenLabs, then followed the question much further: what should a machine sound like when it talks back?
Piotr Dabkowski Wanted the Actors to Speak Polish
A childhood irritation with flat Polish film voiceovers became a technical problem Piotr Dabkowski could not leave alone. The ElevenLabs cofounder now leads the research behind voices designed to carry feeling across languages.
Ryan Brown Is Building a Computer You Can Talk To
After years building devices for virtual worlds, the former Oculus and Meta engineer is helping Sesame put a conversational computer into everyday life. The voice came first. The glasses are still to come.
RingCentral
The company that dragged the office phone into the cloud is now betting the whole switchboard on AI agents that answer, route, and read the room.
CloudTalk Bets the Phone Call Isn't Dead - It's Just Dumb
The Slovak startup raised $28 million to turn the business phone call into software - and picked a fight with UJET, Mitel and Salesforce over who owns the voice in customer conversations.
The AI-Native Empire: ElevenLabs and Legora on the All-In Stage
Recorded live at the RAISE Summit inside the Louvre, this two-part All-In Podcast conversation, hosted by Jason Calacanis, features ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski and Legora founder and CEO Max Junestrand. Staniszewski details how ElevenLabs raced from a research project to roughly $600 million in annual revenue in under three years, why the company runs on small engineer-embedded teams with zero product managers, how it protects voices from impersonation while paying creators over $22 million, and how it out-competes frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic on voice. Junestrand explains how Legora is compressing the trillion-dollar legal-services market with AI agents, growing 50% quarter-over-quarter for seven straight quarters, deploying 'forward-deployed lawyers,' and disrupting legacy players like LexisNexis and Westlaw.
Cliff Weitzman
Cliff Weitzman is the founder and CEO of Speechify, the text-to-speech app that reads anything aloud in natural AI voices and now serves over 56 million users in 200+ languages. Diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade, he taught himself English by replaying a Harry Potter audiobook 22 times, then built the software he wished he'd had to keep up with the reading load at Brown University. What began as a personal hack for one dyslexic student became a Forbes 30 Under 30 company and an Apple Design Award winner.
Canary Technologies
Canary Technologies is the AI-powered Guest Management System trusted by 20,000+ hotels in 100+ countries. Founded in 2017 by Harman Singh Narula and SJ Sawhney, it sells AI Voice, AI Webchat, Mobile Check-In, Digital Contracts, Upsells, and Digital Tipping to brands like Marriott, Wyndham, Four Seasons, and Best Western.
Daniel Yousefian
Daniel Yousefian is a co-founder of Clubhouse, the voice-based social networking platform that captured the world's attention during the pandemic. Built under Alpha Exploration Co. and backed by $112M from Andreessen Horowitz, Clubhouse pioneered drop-in audio rooms before boldly pivoting toward intimate friend-to-friend voice messaging - complete with AI-powered custom voice cloning. Based in Yerevan, Armenia, Yousefian is part of the founding trio alongside CEO Paul Davison and co-founder Rohan Seth.
Harman Narula
Harman Singh Narula is the Co-Founder and CEO of Canary Technologies, the hospitality industry's leading AI-powered guest management platform trusted by 20,000+ hotels across 100+ countries. A Cornell Hotel School and Wharton MBA graduate, Narula co-founded Canary in 2017 alongside childhood friend SJ Sawhney, tackling the hotel industry's notoriously outdated technology infrastructure one paper form at a time. What started as a solution to clunky credit card authorization forms has grown into a $600 million company backed by Y Combinator, Insight Partners, and Brighton Park Capital, with $175 million raised in total funding including an $80 million Series D in June 2025.