Insider Brief
- Keplar raised $3.4M in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from SV Angel, Common Metal, and South Park Commons, to expand Keplar Voice, its conversational AI platform for large-scale customer interviews.
- Keplar Voice enables hundreds of simultaneous AI-moderated voice interviews, delivering real-time analysis and automated reports, reducing research timelines from months to hours while cutting costs dramatically
- Already used by Fortune 500 companies in CPG, software, and retail, the platform supports research use cases like concept testing, UX studies, and win-loss analysis, offering scalable qualitative insights at quantitative scale.
PRESS RELEASE — Keplar, opens new tab, an AI-powered market research platform, has announced the general availability of Keplar Voice, a conversational AI system that conducts in-depth customer interviews through natural voice interactions. The company also announced their $3.4 million seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, opens new tab, with participation from SV Angel, opens new tab, Common Metal, opens new tab, and South Park Commons, opens new tab. Keplar will use the funds to accelerate technical investments in conversational AI and scale headcount in order to meet accelerating market demand.
Traditional research methods like phone surveys and in-depth interviews can take months and cost tens of thousands of dollars, opens new tab, putting meaningful customer insights out of reach for many businesses. Keplar makes this fast, affordable, and scalable: hundreds of AI voice interviews conducted simultaneously, real-time analysis of responses, and actionable reports delivered within hours.
“Every company wants to understand their customers deeply, but the current tools make it nearly impossible,” said Dhruv Guliani, co-founder and CEO of Keplar. “A single moderated interview can cost hundreds of dollars and takes weeks to schedule. We’re making it possible for any company to have real conversations with hundreds of customers simultaneously, getting rich qualitative insights at quantitative scale.”
Keplar Voice combines multiple agentic AI technologies to deliver an end-to-end research solution:
- Natural voice conversations: AI moderators conduct dynamic, adaptive interviews and respond to participant answers in real-time
- Instant deployment: Studies launch in minutes with customizable voice personalities and languages. Participants are recruited through Keplar’s high-quality panel or through a company’s CRM
- Automated analysis: AI agents code responses, identify themes, and quantify insights as interviews complete
- Enterprise-ready reporting: Sharable reports and executive dashboards are automatically generated to help marketers and researchers land impact
Fortune 500 companies across CPG, software, and retail sectors are already using Keplar Voice for foundational research, concept testing, user experience research, and win-loss analysis. Early customers report reducing research timelines from months to days while significantly expanding the number of customers they can engage.
The seed round, led by Kleiner Perkins, will accelerate product development and market expansion. “Keplar is solving a massive problem that every company faces,” said Mamoon Hamid, partner at Kleiner Perkins. “Their approach to combining voice AI with automated analysis creates a step-function improvement in how companies understand their customers.”
For more information, visit www.keplar.io, opens new tab or contact us at hello@keplar.io, opens new tab.
About Keplar
Keplar is an AI-powered market research platform that enables companies to conduct qualitative research at quantitative scale. Using advanced voice AI and automated analysis, Keplar helps businesses have natural conversations with hundreds of customers simultaneously, transforming months of research into hours of insights. Founded in 2022 and backed by Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, and other leading investors, Keplar serves Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries. For more information, visit www.keplar.io, opens new tab.
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