Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls
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Handling 100M+ calls a month off a Series A footprint says AI voice is already at production scale, not experiment. If you still treat phone support as a human-only channel, your cost structure and response times are about to look outdated next to AI-augmented peers.
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