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Podcastle , a podcasting weapons platform that has encourage its product with various generative AI - ram features , has raised $ 13.5 million in a Series A funding beat contribute by Mosaic Ventures .
Also participate were exist Podcastle investors RTP Global , Point Nine Capital , Sierra Ventures and Andrew Ng ’s AI Fund . Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena and Moonbug Media CEO René Rechtman also participated in the round .
The platform now claims to have around a million Lord using its shaft , many of which have AI - driven features , although this human body has not been independently verified .
In a instruction , Simon Levene , co - founder and better half of Mosaic Ventures , comment : “ Arto and the team at Podcastle have work up a guide merchandise , and are already showing sign of constitutive increase that we believe will only speed up in the eld onwards . ”
In a conversation with Arto Yeritsyan , founder and CEO of Podcastle , told me : “ Last summer we released podcasts for teams . So we ’re moving from single - user experience to multiplayer experience . So this financial support is aimed to descale that . We saw this scale of measurement with 10x growth last year . So fundamentally , we ’ll be scale that .
Podcastle offers Revoice , a reproductive AI part cloning tool ; Magic Dust AI , to improve audio quality ; the Podcastle Hosting Hub ; and Podcastle for Teams .
He said the political platform is concentrate on long - form content instauration , both audio frequency and video : “ fundamentally anything that produces content , which is not like TikTok - type of inadequate - human body message . We help team get together , and it cross the entire work flow from ideation into actually drive it to the interview , meaning you may record on our platform , you may then edit or pay for somebody to edit . ”
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He also thinks the platform distinguish itself from competitors by offering literal - sentence collaboration and AI functionality .
“ We vie withRiversideon the recording side andDescripton the editing side . Descript is background - based which you need to install on your computer , whereas we ’re web - found and covering the entire flow . So our offer is being a one - full stop store with real - time coaction on the web . As a comparison , we ’d be like Sketch versus Figma . Sketch take to be installed on your electronic computer , not really web - based or swarm - based where you could collaborate , and Figma basically come in as a collaborative product . So we are pretty alike but for video and audio content creation . ”
He plans to make a virtue of both these collaborative features and online redaction : “ In our case , you have the intact workflow within the same production . Podcasters can invite editor and the team can make the edits and can then can invite the marketer to make assets like short - form videos of the foresighted - configuration video recording and share it to social , correct from the same platform without leaving . ”
I also ask him what are the biggest trends in podcast correctly now .
“ The biggest trend is what we call studio apartment sound . Our tools can generate a ‘ pseudo character audio ’ from any input . So you’re able to immortalize something on your phone and the output that you get is almost like you ’ve been in a studio apartment , even if you ’re podcasting with three people , with each of them having a dissimilar environment , different space from the mike , different haphazardness level . ”
He says these tools were built because video podcasting is getting very popular on YouTube , where it is being pushed , so Podcastle introduced video recording tools to cover this demand : “ disregarding of what photographic camera you utilise , you’re able to generate DSLR camera quality . you may add AI fuzz or a bokeh result . ”
Another large trend is marketing , he says : “ We encounter this with the power to create a fate of shorts and distribute those to all the societal platforms . AI ease up you the chance to do that automatically , rather than manually , by generating all the assets that you call for to divvy up in unlike platforms to draw in users to your long - form subject . ”
He says consumers and job are starting to make their decisions not by scroll through website but by watching their content : “ They ’re going to their YouTube channels , podcasts and listen to that and then making a determination , as oppose to the old ways of doing that . ”
I also asked him if he believe Armenia is becoming more of a technical school hub , render unicorn companies like Picsart have emerged from there . Podcastle ’s engineering team go out of Armenia , which is fast becoming a fresh European tech hub , having been boosted by the establishment of offices by bountiful companies like Adobe and Nvidia in their lookup for programming talent , specially in AI .
“ Yes , in spades . We ’re fundamentally becoming a small Silicon Valley here . You will see company like Adobe construction offices . The CEO of Adobe was here last year . We have Nvidia here , and mass from companies like Picsart are starting their own companies . I was a VP of Engineering at Picsart for about eight years , ” he says .
The company has also recently hired Allan Rechtman , a former VP at Canva , as its main commercial-grade officer ; Damian Sacco as VP of Growth ( formerly Prezi ) ; and Dmitry Kopylovsky has been promoted to chief marketing ship’s officer .
