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Indian techies are among some of the most sought after in global tech industry and often end up working high-paying jobs at global giants like Amazon Google Meta Microsoft etc. However a few talented individuals resist the enticement of a cozy corporate job and instead persevere to launch their own venture. One such remarkable Indian engineer is Karan Goel an IIT Delhi alumnus who recently raised a whopping $100 million (over Rs 882 crore) for his AI startup Cartesia from renowned global investors. Who is Karan Goel? Born and raised in Delhi Karan Goel completed his schooling at the Delhi Public School (DPS) RK Puram and then earned a dual degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 2016 and a Master’s in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University. Later Karan Goel completed a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. According to his LinkedIn profile Karan worked as a Machine Learning Researcher at Salesforce AI Research a research scientist at Snorkel AI and was selected for the Greylock X Fellowship where he learned about entrepreneurship and the VC industry. In 2023 Karan Goel launched his own AI startup Cartesia and is today viewed among the most promising Indian-origin founders in AI industry dominated by big tech like Google Amazon OpenAI and Meta to name a few. How Karan Goel raised $100 million for his startup? Recently Karan Goel created major buzz in AI space after his US-based startup Cartesia raised a $100 million from top investors including Kleiner Perkins Index Ventures Lightspeed and NVIDIA. Additionally Cartesia has made a major breakthrough in real-time voice technology with the launch of its new voice model Sonic-3 Goel announced on X. What is Cartesias Sonic-3? According to Goel Cartesias Sonic-3 is one of the fastest voice AI models currently available in market capable of delivering naturalness with emotional range supports 42 languages and achieves 190ms end-to-end latency which is significantly faster than most transformer-based systems used by competitors. Goels Sonic-3 has garnered widespread praise from AI founders engineers and enthusiasts. If youre qualified and we cant make your voice AI better than what youre using now Ill donate $5K to your chosen charity” he posted on X. “From this day on there are two eras. The world before Sonic 3. And the world after Sonic 3. Congrats on the launch!! Michelle Lim co-founder of Flint replied. “The way sonic picked up the sentence in Hindi laughed and then continued the conversation is really impressive. I gotta try building something using sonic 3 now a user wrote. “190ms end-to-end is seriously impressive. The breakthrough on emotional range is what really caught our attention that’s been the missing piece for natural conversation another commented.
