Acquisition
Jun 2026OVH Groupe entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Gladia; the deal was not yet closed and terms were not disclosed.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Gladia is an AI audio infrastructure company that provides speech-to-text and audio-intelligence APIs for developers and enterprise voice products, with real-time and batch transcription, multilingual support, and enterprise-grade security/compliance.
Primary product
AI audio infrastructure / speech-to-text API
Founded
2022
Headquarters
New York, United States (LinkedIn company profile); Gladia SAS legal office in Cesson-Sévigné/Rennes, France
Team size
51-100
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Voice AI / speech-to-text infrastructure
Offices
New York, United States (HQ)
Paris, France
Rennes, France
Cesson-Sévigné, France
Business model
usage-based API
SaaS
enterprise contracts
Funding
People & investors
Founders
Co-founder
Work & culture
Mission-driven, multidisciplinary, and developer-focused; public values emphasize benevolence, honesty, and transparency, with an ambitious, research-heavy culture centered on audio AI.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public job ads suggest France-based roles typically pay about €55K-€75K base or €60K-€70K base, plus BSPCE equity, depending on seniority and role.
Benefits
€200/month lunch vouchers
€360/year sports allowance
€300 workstation adaptation allowance
100% health insurance coverage
pension contract for employee and family
unlimited vacation
full-remote policy in France
team gatherings in Paris every ~1.5 months
BSPCE equity for France-based roles
Product & market
Pricing
Transparent usage-based pricing with pay-as-you-go, committed volume, and enterprise plans; pricing is quoted per transcription hour with bundled features.
Differentiators
- —sub-300ms real-time latency
- —100+ language support
- —code-switching support
- —all-in-one transcription plus audio intelligence
- —EU data residency / sovereignty focus
- —built-in diarization, entity capture, PII redaction, sentiment, and timestamps
- —enterprise security/compliance controls
Technology
real-time speech-to-text
batch transcription
WebSockets
Python SDK
Node.js SDK
OpenAPI-generated SDKs
pyannoteAI speaker diarization
Stripe billing
Webflow hosting
Kubernetes
Docker
CI/CD
PostgreSQL
Prometheus
Grafana
Bun
Nx
uv
TLS encryption
VPC/firewalls/DDoS mitigation
Customers
HeyGen
Livestorm
Attention
Circleback
Method Financial
Recall.ai
Leexi
Aircall
VEED
Daily
Competitors
Deepgram
AssemblyAI
Speechmatics
Rev.ai
Winn.AI
MosaicVoice
Sounder
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
under $1M
Estimated monthly visits
211K
Signals & risks
Latest news
OVH Groupe · Jun 2026
OVH Groupe said it had entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Gladia to strengthen its multimodal and agentic AI efforts; the transaction terms were not disclosed.
Gladia blog · Mar 2026
Gladia discussed its partnership with pyannoteAI and how speaker diarization supports improved transcription accuracy and analytics.
Gladia blog · Mar 2026
A podcast-style interview with CEO Jean-Louis Quéguiner about the infrastructure challenges and business use cases for speech AI.
PR Newswire · Oct 2024
Gladia announced a $16M Series A to expand its real-time multilingual transcription and analytics engine; XAnge led the round.
TechCrunch · Jun 2023
TechCrunch covered Gladia's $4M seed round led by New Wave, with Sequoia, Cocoa, and angel investors participating.
Jobs and careers at Gladia
4 jobs at Gladia
Design Engineer, Brand + Product
Remote
Revenue
Paris; Paris, France
1w ago
Remote
Full-time
Senior Brand Designer
Remote
Revenue
Paris; Paris, France
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Account Executive
Remote
Revenue
Paris
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
VP Revenue
Remote
Revenue
Paris
2mo ago
Remote
Full-time