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API-native voice AI infrastructure that lets engineering teams build, deploy, and manage production-scale voice agents by abstracting telephony internals and orchestrating speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models with sub-500ms latency.
Raised $72M across disclosed rounds.[2][3][4][5][6][8]
Series B closed May 2026, led by Peak XV.[2][3][4][5][6][8]
post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.
Named investors include Peak XV, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Abstract Ventures, AI Grant, Saga Ventures, Michael Ovitz.[1][2][3][4][5]
May 2026 · thenextweb.com
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May 2026 · markets.businessinsider.com
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API-native voice AI infrastructure that lets engineering teams build, deploy, and manage production-scale voice agents by abstracting telephony internals and orchestrating speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models with sub-500ms latency.
Bland AI · bland.ai · Same developer-facing API model for production voice agents handling high-volume inbound and outbound calls; named alongside Vapi in the 2026 AI Voice Agent Vendor Landscape market map as a direct infrastructure-layer competitor.[18]
Retell AI · retellai.com · Directly competes on the same API-native, low-latency voice agent infrastructure layer for developers; co-listed with Vapi in the 2026 AI Voice Agent Vendor Landscape market map under the developer platform category.[18]
Twilio · twilio.com · Vapi's own tech stack lists Twilio as a component, and Vapi explicitly positions its value as abstracting telephony internals—the layer Twilio historically owned; both compete for the engineering budget that routes production voice calls.[1][3]
Nuance Communications (Microsoft) · nuance.com · Vapi's tech stack lists Nuance as a component it displaces or integrates with; both target enterprise voice automation in regulated verticals (healthcare, financial services) with HIPAA-grade compliance requirements.[1]
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