🪦 Dead
LOVO AI
Startup failed · Chapter 7 Liquidation · shut down May 27, 2026
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 7y 4m
- Cause of death
- Chapter 7 Liquidation
- Killed by
- Itself
- Type
- Startup
A Berkeley AI voiceover and voice-cloning startup, founded in 2019, behind the Genny text-to-speech studio. LOVO filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on May 27, 2026, listing $245,224 in assets against $17,788 in liabilities. The filing landed less than three weeks before a June 16 hearing on its motion to dismiss Lehrman & Sage v. Lovo, a class action by voice actors who say their voices were cloned without permission; the bankruptcy automatically stayed the case. Paying customers had been reporting on Trustpilot since late April that they were locked out of their accounts.
Collateral damage: Paying users lost access to their accounts and generated voiceovers, and the voice actors' class action is frozen by the bankruptcy stay.