Ares Geovanos is Co-Founder and COO at Rime, a San Francisco-based enterprise voice AI company building the most human-sounding conversational speech models in the industry.
Ares studied engineering at Stanford University and went on to conduct brain-computer interface research at UC San Francisco, focused on restoring speech for patients who had lost the ability to communicate verbally.
His deep experience at the intersection of engineering, product, and human speech science gave him a rare perspective on what it truly takes to make AI voice feel natural under real-world conditions.
Ares co-founded Rime in 2022 alongside Lily Clifford and Brooke Larson, helping grow the company from a San Francisco recording studio to a Series A-backed enterprise platform trusted by clients like Mayo Clinic, Domino's, and Wingstop.
Rime now powers over 100 million phone conversations monthly, has raised $29.5M across seed and Series A rounds, and holds one of the world's largest proprietary datasets of expressive, multilingual conversational speech.
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