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Cochl Inc

Irvine, CA · Founded 2022
LAST FUNDING
$5.0M
Series B

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Funding history

DateRoundAmountInvestorsSource
Series B$5.0M

About Cochl Inc

How much funding has Cochl Inc raised?

Cochl Inc has raised $5.0M in total funding. The most recent round was Series B.

Where is Cochl Inc headquartered?

Cochl Inc is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

What does Cochl Inc do?

Official website of Cochl

What problem does Cochl Inc solve?

Machines have struggled to understand real-world sound, so critical acoustic signals for safety, operations, and monitoring have gone overlooked and underused.

What's Cochl Inc's solution?

Cochl.Sense is a Sound AI platform that detects and interprets 100+ real-world acoustic events in real time, turning acoustic data into actionable intelligence, deployable via cloud APIs or edge SDKs and trainable on custom sounds.

What makes Cochl Inc different?

Cochl's technology goes beyond speech recognition to general machine listening and was built by a team that is a two-time consecutive winner of the IEEE DCASE Challenge, a leading benchmark in sound event detection.

What makes Cochl Inc notable?

A South Korean 'sound AI' startup founded in February 2017 by CEO Yoonchang Han and a team of six music/audio research scientists; it was previously known as Cochlear.ai.

Leadership

Yoonchang Han
Executive Officer
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Hyuk Jang
Executive Officer
Subin Lee
Executive Officer
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