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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nAnkur Edkie is co-founder and CEO of Murf, the AI voice generation company. He started it in October 2020 with Sneha Roy and Divyanshu Pandey, classmates from IIT Kharagpur, after the three met the same problems producing voiceovers in their earlier work.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankuredkie/\n\n## What Ankur builds\n\n- [Murf TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/murf-tts.md), graded BB, 70.8/100, in Text-to-speech. Murf's API for generating speech from text. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Murf Voice Cloning API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/murf-voice-cloning.md), graded D, 46.3/100, in Voice cloning \u0026 custom voices. Murf's service for creating voices from audio samples, with instant cloning and a managed professional option. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Divyanshu Pandey](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/divyanshu-pandey/), Co-founder\n- [Sneha Roy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sneha-roy/), Co-founder and COO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Matrix Partners India](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/matrix-partners-india/)\n- [Elevation Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elevation-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ankur Edkie?\n\nAnkur Edkie is co-founder and CEO of Murf, the AI voice generation company. He started it in October 2020 with Sneha Roy and Divyanshu Pandey, classmates from IIT Kharagpur, after the three met the same problems producing voiceovers in their earlier work.\n\n### What does Murf make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Murf TTS API + MCP and Murf Voice Cloning API from Murf. Murf's API for generating speech from text.\n\n### Who has invested in Murf?\n\nThe sources our research read name Matrix Partners India and Elevation Capital.\n\n### How are Ankur's tools graded?\n\nMurf TTS API + MCP is graded BB, 70.8 out of 100; Murf Voice Cloning API is graded D, 46.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://murf.ai\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankuredkie/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/divyanshu-pandey-57782b13/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sneha-roy-28a83043/\n- https://murf.ai/about\n- https://help.murf.ai/\n- https://murf.ai/contact\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankuredkie\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sneha-roy-28a83043\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/divyanshu-pandey-57782b13\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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