Keplar is a technology company.
Keplar has raised $3.0M across 1 funding round.
Keplar has raised $3.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Keplar (keplar.io) is a San Francisco-based AI startup founded in 2023 that builds Keplar Voice, a conversational voice AI platform revolutionizing market research.[1][2][6] It serves enterprises and brands by enabling rapid, scalable customer interviews—conducting thousands of natural voice conversations to deliver qualitative insights, automated analysis, reports, and dashboards at a fraction of traditional costs and timelines.[2][3][6] The platform solves the inefficiencies of legacy market research, like costly human-led surveys and weeks-long delays, by using agentic AI for adaptive interviews, real-time theme identification, and synthesis from client CRM data or synthetic audiences.[1][2][3] Backed by a $3.4 million seed round led by Kleiner Perkins in 2025, Keplar shows strong early momentum with general availability of its core product.[2][3]
Keplar emerged in 2023 from the South Park Commons founder fellowship, where co-founders Dhruv Guliani (ex-Google engineer specializing in speech and voice AI) and William Wen (machine learning engineer) identified a gap in market research tools.[2] After interviewing researchers and brand managers, they realized conversational AI could replace slow, expensive written surveys and human interviews, leveraging recent LLM and voice AI advances.[2] The duo launched from San Francisco's 2261 Market Street, quickly raising seed funding from Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, Common Metal, and South Park Commons to scale their platform.[1][2][3] Pivotal early traction came from demonstrating AI that conducts probing customer interviews indistinguishably from humans, turning studies into minutes-long setups with instant results.[2]
Keplar rides the voice AI and agentic LLM wave, timing perfectly with post-2023 advancements that make AI conversations indistinguishable from humans, enabling synthetic data and real-time behavioral analysis like emotion detection via vocal tones.[2][3] Market forces favor it amid exploding demand for customer-centric insights in a data-driven economy, where traditional research can't scale against AI speed—disrupting a multi-billion-dollar industry reliant on slow human labor.[2] By democratizing deep qualitative research, Keplar influences the ecosystem, empowering brands in e-commerce, CPG, and tech to iterate products faster, while accelerating AI adoption in market intelligence alongside trends like speech analytics and gaze tracking.[3]
Keplar is poised to capture significant market share by expanding Keplar Voice into multimodal AI (e.g., integrating video/emotion analysis) and global audiences, fueled by its seed capital for hiring and R&D.[2][3] Trends like ubiquitous agentic AI and synthetic data proliferation will amplify its edge, potentially evolving it into a full customer simulation suite that co-designs products at scale.[1][6] As voice AI matures, Keplar's influence could reshape how enterprises loop customer feedback into development, turning market research from a bottleneck into a real-time superpower—starting from its bold disruption of Fortune 500 workflows.[2]
Keplar has raised $3.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Keplar's investors include C2 Investment, Hanabi Capital, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital.
Keplar has raised $3.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $3.0M Seed in September 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2025 | $3.0M Seed | C2 Investment, Hanabi Capital, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital |