ElevTalk has closed a Pre-Seed financing round for an undisclosed sum, with investors including Patriot Fund (jointly operated by Bass Ventures and EO Studio), Xiaoxiao Fund and a founding member of Baidu. The company said the funds will be used mainly to iterate its core multilingual AI voice technologies, polish the product and expand into North American and Asian markets.
ElevTalk’s product and target users
ElevTalk builds a voice-first workflow aimed at professionals who work across multiple languages, with an initial focus on Asian users. The product combines original-language transcription, support for multilingual mixed input, expression optimization and cross-language translation into a single flow. It is optimized for English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese, and is intended to let non-native English users communicate using their most natural language and expression patterns rather than simply converting voice to text.
Capabilities, performance and early traction
The company offers voice input, expression optimization and cross-language conversion so users can produce content for e‑mail, instant messaging, social media and other office scenarios without switching interfaces. Users may speak entirely in English, in their native language with interspersed English terms, or mix languages in a single sentence; ElevTalk then recognizes the input and can perform expression optimization or translation according to user needs.
In internal unified tests, ElevTalk reported a Character Error Rate (CER) of 1.55% for Korean and 2.25% for Chinese speech recognition tasks. The company states that under the same test set and conditions, its Korean and Chinese recognition indicators are lower than those of leading global voice input products such as Wispr Flow.
At the Demo stage, hundreds of testers contacted the team within three days of public release. Without paid promotion, ElevTalk has since accumulated more than 1,000 early users. According to the company, core users are active on average 5 to 7 days per week; the most active users input more than 6,000 words by voice in a single day; and weekly active user retention is roughly 50% week over week. Early testers were largely Chinese and Korean entrepreneurs, investors and technology practitioners working in the United States who frequently switch between English and their mother tongue.
Team, business model and market view
ElevTalk was co-founded by CEO Dai Zheng and CTO Fu Boming. Both hold bachelor’s degrees from the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University. Dai is a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University with a master’s degree in management, previously worked at McKinsey, and previously founded an edtech company with cumulative revenue exceeding seven-digit RMB; he leads product strategy, market entry and global user expansion at ElevTalk. Fu has seven years of experience in voice and multimodal model training, served as a partner at an AI startup backed by frontline VC, and has experience at large technology companies on products with millions of users; he is responsible for model, engineering and the technical system.
ElevTalk’s go-to-market focuses first on personal subscriptions for professionals who frequently use voice input and need cross-language communication. The team frames voice not only as a way to improve typing efficiency but as a potential main human–computer interaction interface, enabled by advances in speech recognition, large language models and real-time voice technologies.
Hyungjun Yang, Director of Bass Ventures, and Taeyong Kim, CEO of EO Studio—investors from Patriot Fund—said: “Voice is becoming a new interaction entry in the AI era, but the existing mainstream products are still mainly built around native English users. A large number of professionals around the world switch between English and their mother tongue every day, and there are still obvious product gaps in multilingual mixed input, accent recognition and cross-language expression. The ElevTalk team not only has a personal understanding of this problem, but also demonstrates fast product development and iteration speed. Asian users are just a starting point, and the team is actually facing the huge global non-native English-speaking population. We expect ElevTalk to start with voice input and gradually grow into the Business OS in the Voice era.”
After this financing round, ElevTalk said it will continue investing in product and core technology iteration and further expand in the United States and Asia.
