Cast Insights has announced the launch of its AI-powered platform that turns spoken content into competitive intelligence for high-stakes decision-makers, alongside a $4.5 million pre-seed round. The round was led by Abstract Ventures, with participation from HF0, Village Global, Max Ventures, Embassy Ventures, Stratus Ventures, and others. The funding will accelerate Cast Insights' mission to ingest and analyze publicly available spoken word at a global scale.

Founded in 2025, Cast Insights is a leading real-time spoken intelligence platform that ingests public speech from television, radio, podcasts, and livestreams and transforms it into structured, real-time insights. By converting speech into searchable data, Cast Insights enables hedge funds, policy teams, strategy groups, and newsrooms to track emerging narratives, compare statements across time and sources, and receive alerts the moment something meaningful is said. The platform replaces manual monitoring and fragmented listening with a living, queryable archive of the spoken world, allowing organizations to move faster, think more clearly, and act with greater confidence.