Anada Lakra

Excited to announce our series A fundraise at @boldvoiceapp. The work continues!

@Chai_Angelic If your daughter ever gets tired of teaching you, we'd love to give you a free year of @boldvoiceapp :)

South Indian father, American daughter💖🤣🤣

@srcasm @boldvoiceapp Thanks for the support Jesse!

Huge congrats to Anada, Ilya, and the @boldvoiceapp team on their $21M Series A!! Most of the AI narrative today is focused on automation and replacement, but BoldVoice is doing the opposite. They’ve built a platform that helps non-native English speakers communicate with more confidence and clarity. The reality is that accent bias has a massive, measurable impact on careers and earnings. By putting a personalized coach in someone’s pocket for a fraction of the cost of a human tutor, BoldVoice is leveling the playing field for millions of people. This feels like another great example of the "10x human" theory. Boldvoice found a way to make you 10x better at what you already do. It's great to see more teams using AI as a force for positive change to help people reach their full potential. If you’re building a mission-driven startup using AI to empower individuals and solve real-world challenges, I’d love to hear from you. Let’s chat.

@mwseibel Thank you Michael! BoldVoice wouldn't be what it is without you + @ycombinator

This Startup Is Putting an Accent Coach in Your Pocket inc.com/maria-jose-gut…

@ycombinator @boldvoiceapp Thank you @ycombinator 🫶

Congrats to the team at @boldvoiceapp on the $21M Series A! BoldVoice is an AI voice coach that helps non-native English speakers sound clearer and more confident by giving precise, real-time pronunciation feedback as they speak. inc.com/maria-jose-gut…

Thrilled to work with the @boldvoiceapp team. Congrats @AnadaLakra @Ilyausorov

Nothing erodes trust more than missing your own deadlines. If you told someone you'll do x by y date, and you just missed that deadline with no communication, you lose 90% of their trust automatically. Keep your promises.

@sheonhan @WIRED As the "woman in the video", I loved reading this. Thank you for this nuanced piece on accents and for including the work we're doing with @boldvoiceapp.

1. One day I got an Instagram ad for an "AI accent training app" 2. Its "AI Oracle" correctly guessed that I'm Korean 3. So, naturally, I tried it and wrote about it My new @WIRED essay on AI & English accents

I sound Korean—because I am Korean. Can AI make me sound American? wired.com/story/ai-ameri…

Happy front page of Hacker News day to us. Go read our research, it's pretty fun.

@mwseibel When you need to be slapped across the face with a hard truth, you go to Michael

“I’ve told Harry and the Motion team a few hard truths over the years. They turned out to be one of the most formidable founders I’ve ever met. I think they’re gonna go all the way.” x.com/harryqi666/sta…

@romasydo @boldvoiceapp That's a serious streak! 👏🏻

Today was my 48th day of daily practice with @boldvoiceapp and this app is awesome. English is my second language and pronunciation was and still is my core insecurity. What stands out is how they integrated AI in giving me feedback down to every vowel and consonant, and being able to compare my recordings to the coach’s voice is incredibly useful. They also put real humans, accent coaches, in front of you for micro lessons and all key interactions and this is so good! Listening daily to Ron and Elisa is a treat. Great job @AnadaLakra If you're ever raising, I'd love to hear about it.

Interesting read on accents and AI: accent-strength.boldvoice.com

We just released something cool at BoldVoice. Want to hear how you'd sound with a different accent - American, British, or Aussie? Try it out -> accentfilter .com

@benln Add @boldvoiceapp to the list :)

We've entered the era of tiny teams The list keeps growing, first time coming across most of these

@mwseibel Hard to imagine a YC without Michael. We were lucky to have you.

Today after 12+ years at Y Combinator I’ll be transitioning to a Partner Emeritus position. This role allows me to continue to do office hours with the 1000+ companies I’ve worked with in the past decade while giving me the free time to explore new adventures. It also means that the w25 batch was my last batch funding new YC companies. The next adventure I’m excited to pursue (after taking the summer to relax) is how I can help government better serve its citizens. Thank you to the countless friends who have been pushing me in this direction for years. Government was the passion of my youth and I’m excited to reengage. Thank you to @ycombinator @paulg and @jesslivingston for changing my life.

An actual support request we just got at @boldvoiceapp... How much do YOUR users care about their streak? 😏

What happens to the VC business model when startups can scale to XX million revenue with a skeleton team / minimal capital?