KugelAudio
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About KugelAudio
YC company profile
Kugel is an on-prem Voice AI model supporting 30+ languages
Kugel is an enterprise-ready TTS model, available on-prem, with a focus on 30+ languages and low latency.
- YC batch: Spring 2026
- Founded: 2025
- Team size: 5
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Country: DE
- Status: Active
- Industry: B2B
- Stage: Early
- YC partner: Andrew Miklas
Founders
Viktor Presber — Founder
Co-Founder of KugelAudio, building foundational Text-To-Speech models for customer support. Started founding ventures at 17 with a local video production company. Later co-founded full-house.io, scaling to $300K ARR in six months with enterprise clients like Siemens Energy, Hitachi Rail, and Barilla. Previously co-founded Sagemode, securing partnerships with two major esports teams.
Kajo Kratzenstein — Founder/CTO
Founder at KugelAudio (YC P26). Previously CTO at Sagemode, scaling an in-game AI coach to 1,000+ users with deep League of Legends integration. Built production aneurysm detection model at Floy GmbH. MA and BSc in Computer Science from Hasso Plattner Institute.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.