Founder of a listed tool

Lily Clifford

Co-founder and CEO, Rime, named behind the Rime TTS API + MCP listing on Anchor Terminal.

Co-founder and CEO, Rime

Lily Clifford co-founded Rime in 2022 and is its CEO. She left a natural language processing PhD at Stanford to start the company, which built its own recording studio in San Francisco to capture conversational speech for its voice models.

What Lily builds

Rime TTS API + MCP C · Text-to-speech
Rime's streaming text-to-speech for voice agents.
Co-founder and CEO, Rime, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

Works with

Ares Geovanos Co-founder, Rime
Brooke Larson Co-founder, Rime

Backed by

M13 Twilio Corazon Capital Unusual Ventures

Questions

Who is Lily Clifford?

What does Rime Labs make?

Anchor Terminal lists Rime TTS API + MCP from Rime Labs. Rime's streaming text-to-speech for voice agents.

Who has invested in Rime Labs?

The sources our research read name M13, Twilio, Corazon Capital and Unusual Ventures.

How are Lily's tools graded?

Rime TTS API + MCP is graded C, 55.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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