Besimple AI · Jul 2026
Official research/benchmark launch focused on voice-model affect and related evaluation.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
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
Redwood City, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
San Mateo, California, United States
Business model
B2B data platform
data licensing
managed human-in-the-loop services
custom annotation services
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$3.6M
Latest round
Seed · Nov 2025
Latest amount
$3M
People & investors
Work & culture
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
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
Equity / early equity
Product & market
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
- —Licensed, ethically sourced conversational audio
- —48-hour sample delivery
- —Custom annotation UIs and AI judges
- —Supports text, chat, audio, video, and LLM traces
- —On-prem optional with cloud workflows
- —15+ languages and diverse accents
- —Vetted expert annotator network
- —Continuous dataset expansions at scale
Technology
Python
React
Firebase
TypeScript
JavaScript
Webflow
SQL
Amplitude
HubSpot
Salesforce
6sense
Clearbit
ZoomInfo
Zapier
Lemlist
Google Sheets
LinkedIn Sales Navigator
Figma
Audacity
Bash
Customers
AI labs
voice AI teams
enterprise AI teams
customer support teams
search teams
education teams
Competitors
Scale AI
Labelbox
SuperAnnotate
Encord
V7
Label Studio
Specific
Clarm
Roark
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
~$0.43M-$0.44M ARR (third-party estimates)
Estimated monthly visits
3.2K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
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.
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