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Markets2026-08-07 · source-backed
Expedition Growth Capital led the company's second raise ever. Its voice-first agentic platform serves Capital One, Discover, RBC, Taco Bell, PSEG and the UK's Department for Work and Pensions, with one Tier 1 US bank running more than a million calls per day and 50,000+ concurrent voice sessions at sub-second latency for a single customer. Six years of capital efficiency in a category dominated by mega-rounds is the datapoint worth keeping.
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