Nuance Labs
Facts
- HQ
- Seattle, WA, US
- Sectors
- Software Development
- Founded
- 2026 Seattle business license
- Type
- Corporation Seattle business license
- Employees
- 24
- Registered name
- 7dof Inc Seattle business license
- Stage
- Series A
Nuance Labs raises $50M Series A to build real-time multimodal AI avatars, led by Lightspeed
Seattle startup Nuance Labs, founded by former Apple Vision Pro engineers, raised $50 million in a Series A led by Lightspeed to build a single end-to-end multimodal model that produces synchronized audio and visual AI avatar responses in real time. The firm aims to eliminate laggy, stuttering, and awkward nonverbal behavior in current avatars by ingesting audio and video together rather than chaining separate speech, language, and synthesis models.
Nuance Labs raises $50M Series A to build full‑duplex AI that processes and generates real‑time human cues
Seattle-based Nuance Labs, founded in early 2025 by former Apple PhD researchers Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang, raised $50 million in Series A to build a single "full-duplex" foundation model that simultaneously processes and generates real-time conversational cues from live audiovisual signals. The startup aims to create AI avatars that respond with human-like facial expressions, tone, and timing to enable more natural, in-the-moment interactions.
Nuance Labs Raises $50M Series A Led by Lightspeed to Build Less-Awkward Real-Time AI Avatars
Seattle startup Nuance Labs raised $50 million in a Series A led by Lightspeed to build more natural real-time AI avatars that avoid awkward pauses and unnatural emotional timing.
People
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Edward Zhang Founder, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
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Fangchang Ma Founder, Co-founder and CEO
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Karren Yang Founder, Cofounder and Co‑founder, Cofounder and Chief Scientist
