# Lily Clifford

> Lily Clifford is co-founder and CEO of Rime. Rime TTS API + MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilyjclifford/

## What Lily builds

- [Rime TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rime-tts.md), graded C, 55.9/100, in Text-to-speech. Rime's streaming text-to-speech for voice agents. Co-founder and CEO, Rime, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Ares Geovanos](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ares-geovanos/), Co-founder, Rime
- [Brooke Larson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brooke-larson/), Co-founder, Rime

## Backed by

- [M13](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/m13/)
- [Twilio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/twilio/)
- [Corazon Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/corazon-capital/)
- [Unusual Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/unusual-ventures/)

## Questions

### Who is Lily Clifford?

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 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.

## Sources

- https://www.rime.ai/company
- https://www.rime.ai/
- https://docs.rime.ai/docs/introduction

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