Nagish becomes Rylo and raises $85 million for AI call captioning

Co-founder Tomer Aharoni is taking a school project into a broader accessibility platform backed by General Catalyst and Canaan.

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Primary source: Aligned News - AI Intelligence

Why it matters

Rylo's round shows investors are willing to fund AI accessibility products when the wedge is a regulated, daily-use utility rather than a generic transcription feature.

AI-powered call captioning system for accessibility (exploded-view technical diagram)

Tomer Aharoni, co-founder and CEO of the accessibility communications service formerly known as Nagish, announced on June 9th that Nagish has rebranded as Rylo and raised $85 million in growth funding to expand beyond phone-call captioning.…

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