LinkedIn post · Jul 2026
Hammad Malik announced a Lahore hackathon with Replit, including participant credits and a $1,000 credit prize for winners.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Uplift AI builds Orator, a voice AI platform for Pakistani regional languages that offers text-to-speech APIs and a no-code Creator Studio for social media, dubbing, voice agents, education, and banking use cases.
Primary product
Orator voice models / Urdu TTS APIs and Creator Studio
Founded
2024
Headquarters
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Information Services
Sub-industry
Voice AI / text-to-speech software
Offices
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
San Francisco, CA, US
Business model
B2B SaaS
API subscriptions
usage-based text-to-speech
enterprise/on-prem licensing
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.1M
Latest round
Seed · Jan 2026
Latest amount
$3.5M
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder & CTO
COO & Co-Founder
Work & culture
Mission-driven, research-heavy startup focused on regional-language accessibility; emphasizes proprietary data collection, in-house labeling, model training, and fast shipping.
Visa sponsorship
Yes
Compensation
A YC role lists $150K-$250K salary plus 2%-5% equity; another hiring post cites PKR 2-6 lakh per month plus equity.
Benefits
Competitive pay
Equity
Paid project during interview process
Meaningful impact
Career development
Hands-on startup experience
Product & market
Pricing
Tiered subscription plans with usage limits plus custom enterprise/on-prem pricing
Differentiators
- —Native Urdu pronunciation trained on speech patterns, not transliterations
- —Regional-language focus on Pakistani languages
- —Proprietary data collection and labeling pipeline
- —Mixed Urdu-English support
- —No-code Creator Studio
- —82 native voices and culturally tuned profiles
- —Enterprise on-prem deployment option
- —Lower-cost positioning versus generalist TTS services
Technology
REST API
WebSocket
Text-to-speech
Speech-to-text
Realtime agents
Orator Studio
Stripe
LiveKit
PyTorch
CUDA
React
API keys
Customers
Khan Academy
Syngenta
Developers building voice-enabled apps
Startups
Small businesses
Banks / voice banking use cases
Educational apps
Rural health workflows
Competitors
ElevenLabs
OpenAI
Microsoft Azure Speech
Google Cloud Speech
Amazon Polly
SoundHound
Coqui / open-source TTS
Scale & contact
Latest news
Dawn · Jan 2026
Dawn reported Uplift AI’s $3.5M fundraise, its March 2024 founding, the friends-and-family bootstrap phase, use cases in education and agriculture, and the company’s plan to expand Pakistani-language voice models.
Business Recorder · Jan 2026
Business Recorder covered the $3.5M seed round led by Y Combinator and Indus Valley Capital, developer traction, and the company’s in-house data pipeline advantage for regional languages.
GoKawiil / HN launch coverage · Oct 2025
Launch HN coverage highlighted the founders, the Urdu WhatsApp bot prototype, 800 users in two days, and the technical challenges of building speech models for underserved languages.
CW Pakistan · Oct 2025
CW Pakistan described Uplift AI’s Voice AI Hack Week, mentor lineup, prize credits, and YC interview incentive for the winning team.
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