Sesame Funding History

Sesame develops conversational voice AI, offered as personal AI companion mobile apps, with announced plans for smart eyewear devices.

Company Overview

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Sesame

  • Speech Models

Founded 2023 · San Francisco, California, US

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Sesame Funding Timeline

  1. Oct 21, 2025

    Series B

    US$250 million

    Led by Sequoia Capital.

    Source · techcrunch.com ↗
  2. Sep 15, 2023

    Seed

    US$10 million

    Led by Spark Capital.

    Source · techcrunch.com ↗

Sesame Founding Team

  • Brendan Iribe

    Co-founder of Sesame.

    Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
  • Ankit Kumar

    Co-founder of Sesame.

    Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04

Sesame Products

Sesame CSM

Conversational speech model from Sesame released under Apache 2.0; the open CSM-1B release accompanies a larger model demonstrated in the company voice demos.

Parameters
1B (CSM-1B open release)(2026-10-14)
License
Apache-2.0(2026-10-14)
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Details and Sources
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-19
Release Date
CSM-1B (open-sourced 2025-03-13) remains Sesame's latest open-source release as of 2026-10-19; no successor such as CSM-2 has been published(2026-10-19)

Sources:huggingface.cogithub.com