Funds for Voice AI Research Platform Cookiy AI

Palo Alto, California-based Cookiy AI has raised more than $7m in a pre-seed round. The firm's software conducts 'natural, human-like conversations' with consumers, to establish their motivations and preferences, and analyses them to product 'structured, decision-ready intelligence.'

Cookiy says its Agentic Voice AI combines the reach of automation with the nuance of a skilled moderator, to develop rich conversations at high speed - actionable advice is delivered within 48 hours.

Founder and CEO Davin YC Dong was an early engineer at Instagram, leading growth science efforts that helped scale the platform to over one billion users - and over his career has headed up teams scaling as many as six consumer products past 100 million users each. He comments: 'The next generation of business leaders won't wait months for generic reports. They'll demand insights in days - with context, empathy, and action.' Meanwhile Joven Lee, the firm's VP Global Business & Insights, is a veteran of Nielsen, Statista and Cint.

The round was oversubscribed and supported by investors including Liquid2, Converge, GoAhead and UpHonest.

The company is on the web at www.cookiy.ai .