Fish Audio
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Founders
About
Fish Audio is a Palo Alto-based AI voice generation startup founded by former Nvidia researcher Shijia Liao and CEO Rissa Cao 13. The company builds AI voice models with more than 15,000 natural-language controls, serving creators and enterprises across gaming, avatars, and voice agents 1. On 2026-07-28, Fish Audio announced a $52 million seed round co-led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with participation from 359 Capital, Parable, Play Time, Alphalist Partners, Bayhouse Ventures, Carya Venture Partners, HF0, and 645 Ventures 123. The company reports over 8 million users, $21 million in annual recurring revenue, and more than 31,000 GitHub stars across its open-source speech-generation models 12. Fish Audio’s project began when Liao trained a voice-generation model on a single GPU and open-sourced it; the company has since released five models and open-sourced three 1.
Disclaimer: This is a lean profile built from initial round coverage and may be expanded as more information becomes available.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-28 | Seed | $52M | Coreline Ventures, Capital Today | 359 Capital, Parable, Play Time, Alphalist Partners, Bayhouse Ventures, Carya Venture Partners, HF0 1 |
What Investors Say
“A community-centric approach can only become a durable advantage if creators trust the platform.”
— Osuke Honda, Managing Partner at Coreline Ventures, on the seed round 1.
“Voice is becoming the default interface for AI, and Fish Audio is unlocking this opportunity to a new generation of creators, developers, and enterprises.”
— Osuke Honda, Managing Partner at Coreline Ventures, July 2026 2.
What Founders Say
“Every enterprise has different use cases and different preferences. For example, companies like HeyGen, which use our voices to power AI avatars, want realism in voices; a gaming studio would want expressive voices for their characters; and voice agent companies like LiveKit want more natural-sounding and low-latency voices that are expressive enough for calls.”
— Rissa Cao, CEO and co-founder of Fish Audio, on the seed round 1.
“We make high-quality, human-sounding voices available to every user, from beginner creatives to million-dollar enterprises, so communication is not only more efficient, but more trustworthy.”
— Rissa Cao, CEO and co-founder of Fish Audio, July 2026 23.
Sources
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“Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises,” TechCrunch, July 28, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/fish-audio-raises-50m-seed-to-build-ai-voice-models-for-creators-and-enterprises/↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
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“Fish Audio Raises $52M in Seed Funding After Turning Passion Project Into One of Voice AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies,” PR Newswire, July 28, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fish-audio-raises-52m-in-seed-funding-after-turning-passion-project-into-one-of-voice-ais-fastest-growing-companies-302836233.html↩↩↩↩
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“Fish Audio makes a splash after raising $52M seed funding for AI voices,” SiliconANGLE, July 28, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/28/fish-audio-makes-splash-raising-52m-seed-funding-ai-voices/↩↩↩