The problem of love is the question at the center of Overtone, the new AI- and voice-forward dating service from Hinge founder Justin McLeod. After more than a decade building Hinge into a $400 million business, McLeod left the CEO seat and raised $18 million to reimagine how technology helps people find a partner. His premise is simple and stubborn: as loneliness climbs, few problems matter more, and the deeper he digs, the more interesting it becomes. Overtone gets to know each person in their own voice and makes only the introductions worth making.
Telerivet is a cloud communications platform that lets organizations send, automate, and orchestrate messages across SMS, WhatsApp, Voice, USSD, Viber and more - in any market, including the places bigger providers ignore. Born from a Peace Corps insight in Tanzania that most people have a phone but not the internet, it now powers enterprises, governments, NGOs and universities across 150+ countries with a drag-and-drop rules engine, APIs, and a phone-as-gateway model that reaches customers where the network is thin.
Avochato is a Mill Valley, California SaaS company that gives sales, support, marketing, and operations teams a shared inbox for two-way business conversations over SMS, MMS, RCS, voice, live chat, and WhatsApp. Built for enterprise security and HIPAA compliance, it plugs into Salesforce, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Okta, and Zapier, and layers in AI agents (Avo AI) for auto-replies, routing, and sentiment detection. Founded in 2016 and backed by a $5M Series A, Avochato has helped 1,000+ businesses run millions of customer conversations.
Bin 'Tony' Zhao is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of Agora (NASDAQ: API), the Real-Time Engagement Platform-as-a-Service he built after 20 years on the frontlines of internet voice and video - from being a founding engineer at WebEx to CTO of JOYY with 300 million users. Founded in 2013, Agora now powers over 80 billion minutes of real-time engagement monthly, supplied the audio backbone for Clubhouse's viral moment, and in 2025 launched a Conversational AI Engine bridging human voice and large language models.

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company that builds human-like voice technology. Founded in 2022 by two Polish engineers frustrated by badly dubbed movies, it grew from zero to $200M ARR in three years and reached an $11 billion valuation by February 2026. Its platform covers text-to-speech, voice cloning, AI dubbing, conversational agents, and speech-to-text across 70+ languages, used by everyone from independent creators to over 60% of Fortune 500 companies.