With Elevation Capital, Goodwater Capital, and angel investors Ronnie Screwvala and Shyamal Anadkat (OpenAI), WestBridge Capital led a Pre-Series B fundraising round for SpeakX. SpeakX is a startup based on generative artificial intelligence that will teach English, totaling $16 million.
SpeakX
Company communications indicate that SpeakX already has over a million monthly active learners, with some 200,000 paying subscribers. With an annual recurring revenue (ARR) of probably $7.5 million, the firm further asserts to have been EBITDA-positive since April 2025, producing $150,000 in monthly revenue and $1 million in total EBITDA
SpeakX’s method’s emphasis on users already having basic English but having trouble with fluency is quite remarkable. To lower the obstacle to speaking confidently, the platform stresses conversational practice, role-play simulations, real-time speech correction, and vernacular-to-English translation help. Today, Hindi speakers account for almost 70% of its users. SpeakX plans to integrate Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali, and more regional languages next year.
Investors appear to be optimistic regarding the timing. SpeakX’s capacity to keep profitability while expanding AI and cloud infrastructure
However, there will be obstacles for SpeakX. Scaling spoken artificial intelligence significantly throughout several dialects and accents is one major technical difficulty. If SpeakX manages to carry out its plan, improving its speech models
