Intella, a Cairo-based AI speech technology company, has raised $12.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A round to accelerate research & development, expand hiring, and scale regionally, supporting Intella’s ambition to become the leading AI speech platform for the Arabic-speaking world.
The round was led by Prosus Ventures with participation from 500 Global, Wa’ed Ventures, and HearstLab. This round follows a USD 3.4 million pre-series A in 2023 and a USD 1 million seed round and is projecting a sevenfold growth in 2025.
Founded in 2021 by Nour AlTaher and Omar Mansour, Intella has roots in Egypt and a growing presence in Saudi Arabia. The company focuses on building AI models for more than 25 Arabic dialects, claiming an industry-leading accuracy rate of 95.73% surpassing established players such as Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Watson.
“We’re turning customer conversations into strategic assets,” said AlTaher
Its product suite includes Ziila, a digital human AI agent created in partnership with Jumia to enable voice ordering, alongside intellaCX for call centre analytics, intellaVX for speech-to-text and noise filtering, and intellaMX for transcription, subtitling, and translation.
Click to signupIntella wants to solve the challenge of Arabic being underrepresented in global AI systems due to the complexity of its dialects by offering enterprise-ready, dialect-sensitive speech technologies that could reshape how millions of Arabic speakers interact with digital platforms.
