Gladia

Gladia

AI transcription and audio intelligence API

Overview

Gladia provides a speech-to-text API and audio intelligence tools for developers. It delivers real-time and asynchronous transcription across 100+ languages and accents with low latency and aims to minimize errors. A key feature is code-switching, allowing accurate transcription when speakers switch languages. The platform also offers speaker diarization, summarization, sentiment analysis, word-level timestamps, and NER, all via a unified API, targeting B2B in CCaaS, sales enablement, and media, with tiered pricing and plans to evolve into end-to-end audio AI infrastructure.

Significant Headcount Growth

About Gladia

Simplify's Rating
Why Gladia is rated
B
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated A on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

AI & Machine Learning

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$20.6M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2022

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What believers are saying

  • OVH completed Gladia acquisition July 31, 2026, giving distribution through OVHcloud and OVHai.
  • Gladia now claims 300,000 developers and 2,000 enterprise customers, including HeyGen and Recall.ai.
  • Solaria-3 launched June 10, 2026, adding stronger accuracy for contact centers and meetings.

What critics are saying

  • OVH can subsume Gladia into OVHai, killing the standalone API by 2027.
  • Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and Speechmatics undercut Gladia on price and enterprise voice features.
  • Customer concentration risk is real; platform partners can switch transcription vendors fast.

What makes Gladia unique

  • Gladia’s single API handles real-time and batch transcription across 100+ languages.
  • Solaria-3 targets noisy, accented, multi-speaker European audio with top-ranked accuracy.
  • OVH Groupe bought Gladia on July 31, 2026, validating its voice-AI stack.

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Funding

Total Funding

$20.6M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

2 Rounds

Series A funding typically happens when a startup has a product and some customers, and now needs funding to scale. This money is usually used to grow the team, expand marketing, and improve the product. Venture capital firms are frequently the main investors here.
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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

5%

1 year growth

10%

2 year growth

10%
GlobeNewswire
Jun 11th, 2026
OVH Groupe enters into exclusive negotiations to acquire Gladia, expert in voice AI.

OVH Groupe enters into exclusive negotiations to acquire Gladia, expert in voice AI. June 11, 2026 11:45 ET | Source: OVH Roubaix - June 11th, 2026 - OVH Groupe, a sovereign, global player and European leader in Cloud and AI, announces that it is entering into exclusive negotiations to acquire Gladia, the expert in AI speech-to-text (STT). This transaction aims to strengthen OVH Groupe's expertise in multimodal and agentic generative AI. Gladia Founded in 2022 in Paris, Gladia is a French AI startup specializing in transcription and audio intelligence. Through a single API, the platform transcribes conversations in real time and in batch across more than 100 languages, turning audio data into structured, actionable information. Gladia today supports more than 300,000 developers and 2,000 enterprise customers, including HeyGen, Livestorm, Attention, Circleback, Method Financial, Recall.ai, and Leexi. Through this acquisition, OVH Groupe strengthens its teams with new voice AI experts. By internalizing the Speech-to-Text (STT) technology building blocks developed by Gladia, OVHcloud and OVHai will offer their customers new voice AI services. True to its DNA of mastering the entire technology stack, OVH Groupe sees this second acquisition strengthening its AI Lab, whose ambition is to develop the next generations of sovereign generative, agentic and multimodal AI technologies. About OVHcloud OVHcloud is a global player and the leading European cloud provider operating over 500,000 servers within 46 datacenters across 4 continents to reach 1.6 million customers in over 140 countries. Spearheading a trusted cloud and pioneering a sustainable cloud with the best price-performance ratio, the Group has been leveraging for over 20 years an integrated model that guarantees total control of its value chain: from the design of its servers to the construction and management of its datacenters, including the orchestration of its fiber-optic network. This unique approach enables OVHcloud to independently cover all the uses of its customers so they can seize the benefits of an environmentally conscious model with a frugal use of resources and a carbon footprint reaching the best ratios in the industry. OVHcloud now offers customers the latest-generation solutions combining performance, predictable pricing, and complete data sovereignty to support their unfettered growth. Contacts OVHcloud | Media Relations | Investor Relations | | [email protected] | [email protected] | | / | / |

VentureBeat
Apr 2nd, 2025
Gladia launches Solaria as AI-based multi-lingual speech recognition model for speech-to-text transcription

Gladia launches Solaria as ai-based multi-lingual speech recognition model for speech-to-text transcription.

London Daily News
Nov 26th, 2024
Serhiy Tokarev discusses Roosh's new investment in French transcription and analytics platform

Ukrainian investment fund Roosh Ventures has invested in Gladia, a company developing AI-based solutions for transcription and audio analytics.

Data Phoenix
Oct 22nd, 2024
Weekly AI Highlights Review: October 15-22

In parallel, Gladia launched its Real-Time API, a product capable of automating the transcription of over 100 languages with an ultra-low latency (under 300 ms).

The Odessa Journal
Oct 16th, 2024
Ukrainian Fund Roosh Ventures invests in French startup Gladia, creator of first multilingual real-time audio transcription tool

French startup Gladia has announced that it has raised €16 million in a Series A funding round, with Ukrainian venture fund Roosh Ventures among the investors.

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