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Kotoba Technologies Funding Round
Kindred Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Sony Innovation Fund invested in a $10 million Seed capital raise for Kotoba Technologies. The round was announced on 6/24/2026.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
6/24/2026
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$10,000,000
Round
Seed
Investors
Proceeds Purpose
Kotoba will direct the new funding toward three priorities at the core of its speech AI platform in East Asia: Speech-to-Speech (S2S); On-Device Rollout; Agentic Rollout.
Company Information
Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Software
Mailing Address
5th Floor, Otemachi Building, 6th Floor, 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chi 571
Tokyo, 100-0004
Japan
Tokyo, 100-0004
Japan
Phone
Undisclosed
Website
Email Address
Not Recorded
Overview
Pioneering Japan's GenAI development with Cutting-Edge Speech AI, We create a future borderless. Kotoba Technologies was co-founded by Dr. Hiroyuki Kojima and Dr. Jungo Kasai, who both earned their PhDs in AI from top U.S. universities. It's a cross-border startup that combines cutting-edge U.S. and Japanese AI research and HPC (high-performance computing) expertise.
Profile
Social Media
Company News
Facebook
YouTube
Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Kojima Noriyuki
Chief Technical Officer
Kasai Jungo
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