# Gradium Raises $100M Seed Extension Backed by Nvidia > Source: > Published: 2026-07-10 01:19:12+00:00 For AI practitioners building real-time voice systems, large seed extensions with strategic corporate investors accelerate availability of low-latency speech models and raise the bar for production-grade tooling. Gradium said in a July 8 blog post that an extension of its seed financing brought total funding to **$100 million**, and that new investors include **Nvidia** (Gradium blog). TechCrunch and Sifted report the extension added roughly **$30 million** to an initial **$70 million** tranche closed at launch (TechCrunch; Sifted). Gradium, which spun out of the Kyutai research lab, described the funds as enabling expanded AI research, product development, international expansion and the opening of a San Francisco Bay Area office (Gradium blog). The company and reporting note recent product advances across real-time text-to-speech, speech-to-text, speech-to-speech translation, on-device models and an open-source voice-agent framework (Gradium blog; Sifted).