Rime, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an enterprise voice AI platform, raised 24M in Series A funding

Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.

Chord, an AI platform for commerce operations founded by ex-Glossier executives Bryan Mahoney and Henry Davis, has raised $7 million in funding led by Equal Ventures, bringing total capital raised to $45 million. M13, Chingona Ventures and CEAS Investments also participated. The New York-based startup, founded in 2021, is building a "context layer" that unifies a company's data, rules and operational logic to enable real-time decision-making. Its "context graph" stores metrics, constraints and past decisions, becoming more accurate over time. Chord's customers include MrBeast, Ritual, Ruggable and Blue Bottle Coffee, collectively representing over $1 billion in annual revenue. The platform competes with Klaviyo, Triple Whale and Northbeam. The funding will accelerate agent infrastructure development and sales amongst commerce businesses generating between $20 million and $1 billion revenue.