David AI LinkedIn · Jul 2026
David AI said it is launching a series of research field notes; the first examines how reliably large audio language models can evaluate other audio models, including where human judgment is still needed.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
David AI is an audio data research company building data, tooling, and research infrastructure for audio AI. Public materials emphasize high-quality audio datasets and research to improve speech and audio models.
Primary product
Audio data research and dataset infrastructure for AI models
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
65
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Audio AI / data research for speech and voice models
Business model
B2B
enterprise software
data services
research tooling
Funding
Stage
Series B
Total raised
$80.6M
Latest round
Series B · Oct 2025
Latest amount
$50M
Oct 2025 · Meritech
May 2025 · Alt Capital
Jan 2025 · First Round Capital
Pre Seed Round
Sep 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Daniel Nussbaum
Head of Ops Platform
Chris Marty
VP, People & Talent
Parsa Zand
Data Product Operations Lead
Natalie Tsvetkov
Product & Operations Lead
Maxi Tommasi
Growth Ops Lead
Aditya Pattani
Product & Operations Lead
Rebecca Zhu
Product Lead
Amy Li
BizOps
Jake Walker
Head of Product
Julia Wang
Product & Operations
Work & culture
Public evidence suggests a research-heavy, fast-growing company focused on audio AI. The company highlights team research notes, offsites, and hiring across technical and operations roles, but does not publicly enumerate benefits or formal culture policies on the sources reviewed.
Product & market
Differentiators
- —Focus on audio-specific data and research rather than general-purpose AI
- —Publicly shares research field notes on model evaluation and audio quality
- —Appears to combine data collection/labeling, benchmarking, and research infrastructure for audio AI
Competitors
ElevenLabs
AssemblyAI
Deepgram
OpenAI
Google DeepMind audio teams
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
23.9K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
David AI · Oct 2025
Company-led announcement that David AI raised a $50M Series B from Meritech, NVIDIA, and existing investors.
Bloomberg · Oct 2025
Bloomberg reported that David AI Labs raised $50M in a Series B led by Meritech, with a reported $500M valuation and founders Tomer Cohen and Ben Wiley identified as former Scale AI employees.
David AI · May 2025
Company-led announcement of a $25M Series A with participation from multiple existing investors and angels.
Forbes · May 2025
Forbes covered David AI’s $25M Series A and described the company as benefiting from strong demand for audio training data from major tech customers, with a valuation north of $100M at the time.
Jobs and careers at David AI
13 jobs at David AI
Recruiting Coordinator
On-site
People
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
2w ago
On-site
Full-time
Technical Product Manager
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Product
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
1mo ago
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Backend Software Engineer
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Engineering
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
1mo ago
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Frontend Software Engineer
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Engineering
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
1mo ago
On-site
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Senior Technical Sourcer
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People
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Data Product Operations Lead
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Operations
San Francisco
1mo ago
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Staff Full Stack Engineer
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Engineering
San Francisco
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Full Stack Engineer
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Engineering
San Francisco
3mo ago
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Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer
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Engineering
San Francisco
4mo ago
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Full-time
Product Manager, Research
On-site
8mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Deployment Strategist
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Forward Deployment
San Francisco
1y ago
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Staff Software Engineer, Platform
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Engineering
San Francisco
1y ago
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General Manager, Data Operations
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Operations
San Francisco
1y ago
On-site
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