EzDubs
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
EzDubs was a San Francisco-based AI speech translation company whose software translated live speech while keeping the speaker's own voice. Founded in 2023 by Padmanabhan 'Paddy' Krishnamurthy, Amrutavarsh Kinagi, and Kareem Nassar (who had founded the speech startup Voicea, bought by Cisco in 2019), it went through Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch and raised a $4.2 million seed round. Its products included an X bot that dubbed video clips (340,000 followers and over a million views a day by December 2024), a WhatsApp voice-message bot, and iOS/Android apps translating phone calls, video calls, and chats in real time with voice preservation.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Founded; launched
EzDubs was founded in 2023 in San Francisco; it launched an X bot that dubbed video clips in January 2023 and a WhatsApp bot for voice messages that July, going through Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch.
- Seed round and apps
The company took its call app out of beta in December 2024 and raised a $4.2 million seed round led by Venture Highway, launching iOS and Android apps for real-time call translation.
- Acquired by Cisco
Cisco bought EzDubs in November 2025 and closed its consumer apps, integrating the real-time AI translation technology into its collaboration tools.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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