# David AI Labs

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/david-ai-labs

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Dover, US
- Website: www.withdavid.ai
- Total disclosed funding: $80M
- Latest round: Series B (Oct 8, 2025)
- Investors on record: 9

## About

Based in Delaware, US, and founded in 2024 by co-founders Tomer Cohen (CEO) and Ben Wiley (CTO), David AI Labs, Inc. develops specialized training data for audio AI applications, offering datasets to technology firms and linguistic research organizations globally. In October 2025, David AI Labs, Inc. raised USD 50 million in series B funding co-led by new investors Meritech Capital Partners and Nventures, with participation from returning investors Altman Capital, Amplify Partners, First Round Capital, and Y Combinator. Other unspecified investors also participated in the round.

David AI specializes in the creation and provision of proprietary training data intended for audio artificial intelligence applications. Their core product offerings include a diverse array of improved, non-publicly available audio datasets that are instrumental in training speech models utilized by research labs. These datasets feature speaker-separated audio files, natural and unscripted conversations, and metadata on various accents and dialects, all of which contribute to the model's ability to comprehend and generate human-like speech across multiple languages. The datasets encompass multi-speaker conversations in various languages, providing clients with an extensive resource to improve their AI models. David AI's offerings cater primarily to research institutions and organizations within the technology and AI sectors, targeting markets in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

David AI's revenue model revolves around partnerships and subscriptions, facilitating access to their audio datasets for clients in various sectors, including technology and linguistics research. The company engages in B2B transactions with clients who require training data to improve their speech recognition and natural language processing capabilities.

The company will use the October 2025 funding to expand research operations, grow engineering and product teams, deepen collaboration with AI labs and hardware companies globally, and enhance frameworks for evaluating the real-world performance of AI speech models.

## Funding rounds

- Series B, Oct 8, 2025, $50M — Meritech Capital Partners, First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Amplify Partners, Nventures, Altman Capital
- Series A, May 22, 2025, $25M — First Round Capital, SV Angel, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, Amplify Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Altman Capital
- Seed, Jan 16, 2025, $5M — First Round Capital, SV Angel, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures

## Investors

- First Round Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/first-round-capital) — Seed, Series A, Series B
- SV Angel (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sv-angel) — Seed, Series A
- Y Combinator (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/y-combinator) — Seed, Series A, Series B
- BoxGroup (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/boxgroup) — Seed, Series A
- Liquid 2 Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/liquid-2-ventures) — Seed, Series A
- Amplify Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/amplify-partners) — Series A, Series B
- Altman Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/altman-capital) — Series A, Series B
- Meritech Capital Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/meritech-capital-partners) — Series B
- Nventures — Series B