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KugelAudio

Kugel is an on-prem enterprise TTS supporting 25+ languages

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveB2BInfrastructureGenerative AIAPIConversational AI

What they do

Problem

Enterprises need fast, secure text-to-speech across many languages without relying on cloud services.

Solution

An enterprise-ready on-premises low-latency text-to-speech model supporting 25+ languages.

Who it's for

Enterprises and organizations that require on-prem speech synthesis for multilingual applications.

Founders

Viktor Presber

Co-Founder

Co-Founder of KugelAudio, building foundational Text-To-Speech models for customer support. Started founding ventures at 17 with a local video production company. Later co-founded full-house.io, scaling to $300K ARR in six months with enterprise clients like Siemens Energy, Hitachi Rail, and Barilla. Previously co-founded Sagemode, securing partnerships with two major esports teams.

Kajo Kratzenstein

Founder

Founder at KugelAudio (YC P26). Previously CTO at Sagemode, scaling an in-game AI coach to 1,000+ users with deep League of Legends integration. Built production aneurysm detection model at Floy GmbH. MA and BSc in Computer Science from Hasso Plattner Institute.