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Small Business Daily Podcast
Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories:
Soxton emerges with $2.5M to build lawyer-in-the-loop AI for startup legal work
Soxton AI launched with $2.5 million in pre-seed funding to deliver fast, lower-cost legal support for founders using automated workflows with a lawyer in the loop. The service targets everything from incorporation and equity plans to repeatable contract work, promising responses within four hours and pricing starting at $100 while maintaining human oversight to prevent AI errors. The company plans to hire across engineering, data, and legal to scale its founder-first platform.
Identity verification startup Incode launches Deepsight to detect deepfake video calls
Incode unveiled Deepsight, a multimodal AI system that spots deepfake video callers by analyzing video, motion, and depth with a three-layer defense across behavior, device integrity, and perception. The company cites top accuracy in a Purdue University evaluation and real-world deployments at ByteDance, PNC Bank, Scotiabank, and Nubank, processing millions of live identity sessions. Available within the Incode Identity Platform, Deepsight strengthens KYC, authentication, and step-up verification as deepfake fraud surges.
Audio language model startup Gradium raises $70M to create more realistic voice AI systems
Gradium raised $70 million to commercialize audio language models designed for natural, low-latency voice interactions that outperform general LLMs on speech tasks. The platform supports English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with early adopters in gaming, customer care, language learning, healthcare, and AI agents. Backed by leading investors and industry veterans, the company aims to make voice a primary interface for human–machine interaction.
Retail operations automation startup Duvo raises $15M
Duvo secured $15 million to deploy ready-made AI agents that automate core retail operations such as margin reviews, invoice reconciliation, promotions, assortment optimization, and vendor onboarding. Built for business users, the agents work across SAP, portals, email, spreadsheets, and APIs, typically cutting manual work by around 40% with full audit trails and approval controls. The company plans to scale globally as retailers seek efficiency and accuracy amid thin margins.
