{"id":521602,"date":"2020-03-06T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T09:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/?p=521602"},"modified":"2021-01-25T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:23:15","slug":"uk-startups-have-raised-74-45m-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/2020\/03\/06\/uk-startups-have-raised-74-45m-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"UK startups have raised \u00a374.45M this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sonantic.io\/\">Sonantic<\/a>, a U.K. startup that has developed \u201chuman-quality\u201d artificial voice technology for the games and entertainment industry, has raised \u20ac2.3 million in funding.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the round is\u00a0<a class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/eqtventures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"eqtventures\">EQT Ventures,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0with participation from existing backers, including Entrepreneur First (EF), AME Cloud Ventures and Bart Swanson of Horizons Ventures. I also understand one of the company\u2019s earlier investors is Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2018 by CEO Zeena Qureshi and CTO John Flynn as they went through EF\u2019s company builder programme in London, Sonantic (previously Speak Ai) says it wants to disrupt the global gaming and entertainment voice industry. The startup has developed artificial voice tech that it claims is able to offer \u201cexpressive, realistic voice acting\u201d on-demand for use by game studios. It already has R&amp;D partnerships underway with more than 10 AAA game studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonantic, a U.K. startup that has developed \u201chuman-quality\u201d artificial voice technology for the games and entertainment industry, has raised \u20ac2.3 million in funding. Leading the round is\u00a0EQT Ventures,\u00a0\u00a0with participation from existing backers, including Entrepreneur First (EF), AME Cloud Ventures and Bart Swanson of Horizons Ventures. I also understand one of the company\u2019s earlier investors is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":521541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34355],"tags":[],"hashtag":[24640],"type-d-article":[23051],"maddybasic_maturity":[],"maddybasic_thematic":[],"partnership":[],"poool":[],"class_list":["post-521602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","hashtag-maddymoney","type-d-article-maddymoney"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521602"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523055,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521602\/revisions\/523055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521602"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=521602"},{"taxonomy":"type-d-article","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-d-article?post=521602"},{"taxonomy":"maddybasic_maturity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maddybasic_maturity?post=521602"},{"taxonomy":"maddybasic_thematic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maddybasic_thematic?post=521602"},{"taxonomy":"partnership","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partnership?post=521602"},{"taxonomy":"poool","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poool?post=521602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}