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Sanas

sanas.ai

Sanas provides real-time Speech AI that removes communication barriers for global enterprise and contact-center interactions.

HQPalo Alto, California, United States
Employees201-1000
Funding$121M
Valuation$486.7M
Revenue$28m
14 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 2h ago
AI / MLFoundation Model ProviderB2B SaaSSeries B$50M-$200M

About

Sanas builds a real-time Speech AI platform spanning accent translation, language translation, speech enhancement, noise cancellation, and speech intelligence. It sells primarily to global enterprises, contact centers, and BPOs, with customers including Fortune 100 companies; its differentiation is patented, low-latency speech processing designed to remove communication barriers while preserving natural voices and emotions.

Market

Sanas competes in the enterprise real-time Speech AI and contact-center voice communication market, positioning itself as a speech layer that makes conversations between people and systems clear, natural, and scalable. It differentiates through real-time accent modulation, voice-preserving translation across 25+ languages, and noise cancellation designed to preserve voice, tone, intent, and conversational authenticity.

Target Customers

Sanas primarily targets enterprise contact centers and globally distributed customer-facing teams that need clearer multilingual communication. Its likely buyers are contact-center, customer-experience, and enterprise operations leaders seeking to improve agent clarity, customer interactions, and workforce performance at scale.

At a Glance

Problem

Sanas addresses a persistent communication problem in global customer-support operations: accented speech, language gaps, background noise, and poor audio can cause customers and agents to misunderstand one another. In contact centers, that friction shows up as repeated questions, interruptions, transfers, call abandonment, longer average handle times, lower customer satisfaction, and accent bias against agents. It also creates hiring, training, and retention pressure because agents may be judged on how they sound rather than on their ability to solve customers’ problems.

The clearest use case is an offshore or multilingual contact center serving customers in another region—for example, Philippine agents supporting U.S. customers. Sanas’s technology is intended to make those conversations clearer without requiring agents to change their natural voices or undergo expensive, permanent accent training. The company links the resulting clarity to fewer repetitions and shorter calls, higher CSAT, better first-call resolution, lower churn, and improved agent retention; its TP customer story reports a 22% CSAT increase and a 37.5% reduction in average handle time.

Product / Service

Sanas is a real-time Speech AI platform whose original flagship product, Accent Translation, changes how an accent is heard while preserving the speaker’s voice and emotion. Its patented speech-to-speech AI and neural-network processing operate with minimal perceptible delay, so the conversation remains fluid rather than sounding like a separate interpretation step. The platform has expanded to include Language Translation, Noise Cancellation, Speech Enhancement, Speech Intelligence, and a developer platform. Language Translation is designed to preserve each speaker’s voice, tone, and emotion while carrying meaning, context, and industry terminology across languages.

The product is delivered for enterprise communications through a desktop application, SDK, or API, with on-device processing and compatibility with contact-center and CRM environments. Sanas positions it as a low-lift deployment that requires no call-flow, workflow, or agent-behavior redesign; its stated benefit is faster implementation and clearer, more productive conversations at scale. Noise Cancellation is also offered under a free-forever model, while Accent Translation and the broader enterprise platform are positioned for contact centers, global enterprises, and developers.

Market

Sanas competes in real-time Speech AI for contact centers and enterprise communications, initially in accent conversion and now in the broader category of speech understanding, enhancement, and translation. Krisp is an explicitly identified competitor, while Sanas has also described InTone as a competitor; adjacent alternatives include voice-noise and speech-clarity products such as IRIS Clarity and CrystalSound. Sanas’s differentiation is the combination of accent translation, language translation, voice preservation, noise cancellation, and enterprise deployment rather than a single-purpose transcription or conferencing tool.

The company is clearly beyond the pre-revenue stage on the available evidence. Sanas’s own timeline says adoption grew from 5,000 contact-center agents across 25 cities in 2023 to more than 30,000 agents and then surpassed 750,000 users globally, alongside a $32 million Series A and a $65 million Series B in 2025. A third-party company-data profile reported $50 million in ARR, 45 customers, and 295 employees as of February 2, 2026. Its TP deployment reports measurable operational outcomes, and its strategic relationships include major contact-center operators such as Teleperformance and Alorica.

Founders & Leadership

Sharath Keshava NarayanaFounder
CEO & Co-founder
Shawn ZhangFounder
CTO & Co-founder
Anant SinghFounder
Chief Sales Officer; Founding Member
Maxim SerebryakovFounder
Former Co-founder
Andrés Pérez SoderiFounder
Former Co-founder; Co-Founder & General Partner at Carya
Monal PatelChief Customer Officer
Saralynn PizanoChief People Officer
MichaelChief Financial Officer

Funding History

2021-08
Seed$5.5M

General Catalyst, DN Capital, Human Capital, Quiet Capital

2022-06
Series A$32M

Insight Partners

2023-03
Early VC / Series AA (Tracxn classifies it as Series B)$15M (Dealroom reports $14.7M)

Not publicly disclosed

2025-02
Series B$65M

Quadrille Capital

Recent News

2026-06-23product
Sanas Expands Real-Time Accent and Language Translation Capabilities

At CCW 2026, Sanas announced expanded Universal Accent Translation and Language Translation capabilities for its speech AI platform.

2026-06-05product
Thank You for Connecting with Sanas at CCW 2026

Sanas highlighted real-time accent translation designed to preserve a speaker’s voice, tone, and intent, alongside noise-cancellation capabilities.

2026-05-04product
Sanas Makes Accent Translation Available on Its Chrome Extension

Sanas announced that Accent Translation became available on its Chrome Extension, with additional Sanas products planned for subsequent release.

2026-04-15partnership
Sanas Acquires Tomato.ai to Push Real-Time Speech AI Deeper into Carrier and Communications Platforms

Sanas announced its acquisition of Tomato.ai, expanding its real-time voice IP and platform integrations; Tomato.ai co-founder Ofer Ronen joined Sanas’s executive team.

2026-03-26product
Sanas Broadens Real-Time Speech AI Platform for Global Enterprises

Sanas expanded its platform to support real-time speech-to-speech translation across more than 13 languages with minimal latency.

2026-02-27
Sanas Defends Speech AI Patents in Court Victory

Sanas reported a federal court win defending its Speech AI patents, emphasizing its efforts to protect its technology and global communications platform.

2025-12-02partnership
TP Transforms Global Communication with Sanas

Sanas published a customer story describing TP’s efforts to improve communication clarity, expand talent accessibility, and increase operational efficiency across key regions using Sanas.

2025-09-18partnership
From Stanford to Speech AI: 8kHz Audio Watermarking for the Real World

Two Stanford students partnered with Sanas on an 8kHz audio-watermarking prototype that the company says outperformed industry benchmarks.

Active Roles

14
Boston, MA/Solutions Engineer/1d ago
Palo Alto, CA/Operations/1d ago
Philippines/Marketing/1d ago
Palo Alto, CA/Marketing/1d ago
Palo Alto, CA/Sales/8d ago
Boston, MA/Sales/11d ago
Palo Alto, CA/Data & Analytics/17d ago
Palo Alto, CA/Engineering/17d ago
Palo Alto, CA/Marketing/17d ago
Palo Alto, CA/Engineering/34d ago
Boston, MA/Sales/34d ago

Business Model

Sanas operates primarily as a B2B, subscription-based Speech AI software business, selling enterprise and contact-center capabilities on a seat-based model to companies and BPO partners. Noise Cancellation is offered as a free product, while the broader accent translation, language translation, speech enhancement, and platform offerings provide the likely paid revenue streams.

Products

Accent TranslationLanguage Translation across 25+ languagesNoise Cancellation

Customers

Teleperformance (TP)Wyndham Hotels & ResortsUnitedHealth Group (UHG)ComcastCignaVanguardAmerican ExpressWells FargoWiproCricket Wireless

Tech Stack

Speech AIReal-time speech-to-speech AIReal-time accent conversionVoice-preserving language translationAdaptive and omni-directional noise cancellationAI-powered audio enhancement

Competitors

Krisp
IRIS Clarity
CrystalSound

Key Investors

Insight Partners; Quadrille Capital; Google Ventures; Human Capital