LinkedIn post · Jul 2026
Hammad Malik announced a Lahore hackathon with Replit, including participant credits and a $1,000 credit prize for winners.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
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
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.1M
Latest round
Seed · Jan 2026
Latest amount
$3.5M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder & CTO
COO & Co-Founder
Investors
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
Pricing
Tiered subscription plans with usage limits plus custom enterprise/on-prem pricing
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
LinkedIn post · Jul 2026
Hammad Malik announced a Lahore hackathon with Replit, including participant credits and a $1,000 credit prize for winners.
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.