Founded by Chloe Duckworth and Shannon Brownlee, the company emerged from a hackathon project originally designed to assist neurodivergent individuals in navigating conversational cues. Today, the technology supports enterprise-scale operations, including Fortune 500 retailers, healthcare providers, and clinical research facilities. By converting tone, pacing, and vocal nuances into structured data, the system allows voice agents and support teams to adjust their responses during live interactions.

The core of the company's infrastructure relies on proprietary foundation models that prioritize demographic and neurotype diversity. According to the firm, this approach yields 92 percent accuracy on internal benchmarks. Unlike standard sentiment analysis, the patented signal processing pipeline normalizes for pitch and timbre, ensuring the technology identifies emotional states rather than speaker characteristics. With the new capital, Valence AI plans to expand its language support beyond English and scale its engineering and go-to-market teams. Current clients, such as Harte Hanks and CustomerHD, are already utilizing the platform to track the Emotion Quotient—a metric designed to replace traditional post-call surveys with real-time satisfaction data.