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Keplar develops voice AI technology to automate customer interviews, effectively replacing traditional market research with AI-moderated conversations. Its SaaS platform allows businesses to set up studies rapidly, with AI moderators like Ellie or Andrew conducting probing discussions for customer satisfaction insights, serving clients such as Clorox and Intercom. The company secured $3.4 million in seed funding, led by Kleiner Perkins, with additional investment from SV Angel, Common Metal, and South Park Commons. The funding supports its scalable and cost-effective approach to modern market research. Keplar was founded in 2023 by Dhruv Guliani, an ex-Google speech researcher, and William Wen, an enterprise app builder. Its business model centers on saaS platform charging clients for AI-powered market research services, offered at a fraction of traditional consulting firm costs.
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 Kleiner Perkins, C2 Investment, Hanabi Capital, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, South Park Commons, SV Angel.
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 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2025 | $3M Seed | Kleiner Perkins | C2 Investment, Hanabi Capital, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, South Park Commons, SV Angel | Announced |
