{"id":1014321,"date":"2026-06-13T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014321"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:49:08","slug":"voice-ai-startup-equal-raises-30-million-from-prosus-ventures-tomales-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/13\/voice-ai-startup-equal-raises-30-million-from-prosus-ventures-tomales-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice AI startup Equal raises $30 million from Prosus Ventures, Tomales Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer voice artificial intelligence platform Equal AI has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital, the company said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The round also saw participation from Think Investments, Valiant Fund, PhonePe founder Sameer Nigam, and Zubin Bharti Mittal of the Airtel family office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer voice artificial intelligence platform Equal AI has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital, the company said in a statement on Friday. The round also saw participation from Think Investments, Valiant Fund, PhonePe founder Sameer Nigam, and Zubin Bharti Mittal of the Airtel family office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014323,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014321\/revisions\/1014323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}