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January 29, 2024

Spotify and Palantir alumni raise $3m for AI audio platform

Wondercraft says it wants to be the ‘Canva of audio’

A UK startup that has developed a platform that allows anyone to create a podcast using AI voices and an AI-generated script has raised a $3m seed round.

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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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