LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Pinch announced its Dubbing API, highlighting voice-preserving dubbing, background audio preservation, and support for multiple speakers and media formats.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Pinch is a YC W25 startup (operated by Duo Labs Inc.) building real-time AI speech translation and AI video dubbing for video calls, creators, and developers.
Primary product
Real-time speech translation and AI video dubbing platform/API (Rooms, Desktop, Dubbing API)
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States (best-supported public estimate; official terms only confirm U.S.)
Team size
1-10 employees (public sources vary from 2 to 4)
Work style
Remote
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Real-time speech translation / AI video dubbing
Offices
0 jobs at Pinch
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Business model
Stage
Seed (some public sources describe the round as pre-seed)
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Feb 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Feb 2025 · Y Combinator
Investors
Small distributed research-and-engineering team with a fast-moving, high-bandwidth collaboration style and frequent in-person co-working.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No public salary bands or equity details; careers page advertises remote full-time founding roles.
Benefits
Pricing
Pay-as-you-go usage-based pricing with shared wallet credits, no subscriptions, no monthly minimums, and custom enterprise pricing for higher-volume customers.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
≈$440K ARR (GetLatka estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
1.6K
Traffic estimate as of Feb 2025
LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Pinch announced its Dubbing API, highlighting voice-preserving dubbing, background audio preservation, and support for multiple speakers and media formats.
LinkedIn · Feb 2026
Pinch said it submitted a paper on JEPA-style predictive encoders for speech translation systems, covering approach, results, and lessons learned.
LinkedIn · Feb 2026
Pinch launched a speech-to-speech translation API, exposing its Falcon v1.3 model and positioning the API for real-time voice applications and multilingual agents.
Pinch Research · Jan 2026
Pinch released Falcon v1.3 with streaming voice cloning and faster time-to-first-translation.
Hacker News · Feb 2025
Pinch launched publicly on Hacker News, describing an immersive real-time translation video conferencing platform that mimics voice and lip sync in over 15 languages.