14 Nov 2025

Latham & Watkins Advises Beside on US$32 Million Seed and Series A Financings

"Latham & Watkins LLP represented Beside as the AI voice startup emerged from stealth and raised US$32 million in Seed and Series A financing. Investors included EQT Ventures, Index Ventures, Stewart Butterfield, Clement Delangue, NextView Ventures, ISAI, Volo Ventures, Factorial Capital, Mathilde Colin, Pierre Valade and Jean-Charles Samuelian."

Latham & Watkins LLP represented Beside in connection with its Seed and Series A financings. Beside, an AI voice startup focused on unlocking AI for the real economy by rebuilding the telephony stack around AI, has emerged from stealth and completed US$32 million in Seed and Series A funding. The financing included participation from EQT Ventures, Index Ventures, Stewart Butterfield (Slack), Clement Delangue (Hugging Face), NextView Ventures, ISAI, Volo Ventures, Factorial Capital, Mathilde Colin (Front), Pierre Valade (Sunrise) and Jean-Charles Samuelian (Alan). Latham & Watkins LLP represented Beside with a team composed by: Peyton Worley (New York partner, Emerging Companies & Growth), Daphne Lambadariou (associate), Hank Balaban (associate). Advice on data privacy and cybersecurity matters was provided by Robert Blamires (Bay Area partner) with Kathryn Parsons-Reponte (associate).
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