Nuance Labs Raises $50M Series A Led by Lightspeed to Build Emotion-Aware Foundation Model
adityaag · x · 2026-09-14
Nuance Labs announced a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Accel, SPC, NVIDIA, and Define VC participating.
The startup is building a foundation model that understands and responds to the full spectrum of human emotion: a single full-duplex audio-visual model that sees, listens, and responds in real time with the natural back-and-forth of human conversation. The team's thesis: the best machine interface is the visual and emotional vocabulary humans have practiced since birth.
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