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AI infra comparison — funding, valuation, and investors, sourced from Value Add Pulse coverage.

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Arena

Arena (formerly LMArena, born as Chatbot Arena at UC Berkeley) operates the crowdsourced leaderboard and evaluation platform used industry-wide to benchmark and rank AI models.

3 Pulse stories
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Gradium

Gradium builds real-time voice AI infrastructure — low-latency streaming speech-to-text, expressive text-to-speech, semantic turn detection, and voice agent frameworks for developers and enterprises.

3 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$250M
$100M
ArenaGradium
Last Valuation
$1.7B
ArenaGradium
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2025
Founded
2025
San Francisco, CA
HQ
Paris, France
Private
Status
Private
Arena investors
FelicisUC InvestmentsAndreessen HorowitzKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersThe House FundLaude Ventures
Gradium investors
NvidiaFirstMark CapitalEurazeoXavier NielDST Global PartnersEric SchmidtAmplify PartnersKorelya Capital

Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for Arena and Gradium.

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