Kalpa Labs is a San Francisco audio research lab building a generalist speech model - one system that handles speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice cloning, and speech-in/speech-out reasoning with the kind of instruction-following and in-context learning that large language models brought to text. Founded in 2025 by ex-Google Assistant ML lead Prashant Shishodia and ex-high-frequency-trading engineer Gautam Jha, the company is a Y Combinator Fall 2025 startup aiming to collapse today's fragmented speech stack into a single, steerable model for developers and voice-agent builders.
Neuralk-AI is a Paris-based deeptech startup building foundation models for tabular, structured data - the spreadsheets, SQL tables and product catalogs that run retail and commerce but that large language models handle poorly. Its in-house model, NICL (Neuralk In-Context-Learning), delivers predictions via API for tasks like product classification, deduplication, catalog cleaning, demand forecasting and personalization, and the company maintains TabBench, an open benchmark for evaluating tabular models on real industrial use cases. Founded in 2023 by Antoine Moissenot and Alexandre Pasquiou, Neuralk-AI raised a $4M seed round in February 2025 led by Fly Ventures, with angels including Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf and Alan's Charles Gorintin.