Company profile | 71 / 89
Sanas
The world’s first real-time accent translation technology.
Founders
Shawn Zhang, Sharath Keshava Narayana
Location
United States
Sector
Enterprise AI
Website
Removing communication barriers with real-time speech AI: everyone understood, everywhere.
Edge-deployed accent translation with sub-100ms latency and patent protection, delivering 95%+ gross margins and 178% NRR across 20 of the top 25 BPOs.
We backed a founding team of international students out of Stanford who understood the pain point first hand — their own experience of being misunderstood because of their accents gave the mission rare authenticity, paired with the research-grade speech-AI talent to build a genuinely novel foundational model.
Sanas is now a unicorn having raised from Tier 1 funds Insight Partners, Google Ventures.
Founder testimonial
“Steve was our first check. He pulled us aside during class at Stanford to motivate us to start our company and gave us the first funding + introductions to make that a reality. It is no exaggeration that without Steve and DN the company would not have existed. Their support, guidance and advice was (and still is) crucial to Sanas.”
Founder
Andreé Perez Soderi
