Amsterdam-based Reson8, a speech technology company developing hyper-customized automatic speech recognition (ASR), has raised €5 million in a pre-seed round led by Balderton Capital with participation from other investors.

The pre-seed funding round was led by London-based venture capital firm Balderton Capital, though additional investor details were not disclosed in the available information. The €5 million raise represents a significant early-stage investment for the European speech AI sector.