Besimple AI · Jul 2026
Official research/benchmark launch focused on voice-model affect and related evaluation.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
YC-backed 2025 startup building licensed conversational audio data and a human-in-the-loop annotation/evaluation platform for voice and multimodal AI.
Primary product
Licensed conversational audio datasets and a human-in-the-loop annotation/evaluation platform for voice AI.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
Redwood City, California, United States
Team size
10-20
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI data infrastructure / voice AI data
Offices
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Business model
Stage
seed
Total raised
$3.6M
Latest round
Seed · Nov 2025
Latest amount
$3M
Investors
Customer-close and high-ownership: the company emphasizes shipping fast, learning with customers, rubric clarity, inter-annotator agreement, tight feedback loops from production back to evaluation, and end-to-end ownership.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public postings show roughly $25-$45/hour for Audio QA contractor roles, $140K-$160K for some lead roles, and $130K-$200K plus meaningful early equity for a full-time engineering role.
Benefits
Pricing
Demo-led, custom-quote licensing with flexible deals; production access is offered via API or S3, and the site also references a self-serve waitlist.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
~$0.43M-$0.44M ARR (third-party estimates)
Estimated monthly visits
3.2K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Besimple AI · Jul 2026
Official research/benchmark launch focused on voice-model affect and related evaluation.
Besimple AI · May 2026
Official research/benchmark launch for measuring voice-agent code-related performance and errors.
Besimple AI · Nov 2025
Official seed-round announcement: Besimple AI said it raised $3M to build the data layer for AI, starting with audio, and named Y Combinator, SurgePoint Capital, Porterfield Ventures, Amino Capital, WELIGHT Capital, Multimodal Ventures, Script Capital, and angels as backers.
Y Combinator · May 2025
YC launch post describing Besimple AI as a fast way to spin up custom data annotation platforms, with founders Yi Zhong and Bill Wang.