Modulate has raised $30 million to develop ToxMod.
Modulate has raised $30 million to develop ToxMod.
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Modulate gets $30M to detox game voice chat with AI

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Modulate has raised $30 million to build out its AI product, ToxMod, which scans voice chat using machine learning to find toxic players in online games.

ToxMod uses artificial intelligence to highlight problems that human moderators should pay attention to as players chat with each other in online games. It’s a problem that will only get worse with the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.  The company raised the round thanks to large customers such as Rec Room and Poker Stars VR relying on it to help their community managers find the biggest toxicity problems.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.