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Vapi

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.

vapi.ai · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·VAPI·26
StageSeries BMay 2026 · led by Peak XV[2][3][4][5][6][8]
Raised$72Mdisclosed rounds[2][3][4][5][6][8]
Headcount170as of May 2026[11]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2023[1][6]
Money

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]

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May 16 2026newsMarch 31, 2026 | Vapi company claim, not independently confirmed[10]
May 12 2026fundingVapi nabs $50M to make voice AI more human - SiliconANGLE[3][4]
May 12 2026fundingAI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon ...[9]
Apr 23 2026newsVapi[1]
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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]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[10]

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Vapi

CALL NO.CS·VAPI·26

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.

vapi.ai · San Francisco

StageSeries B
Raised$72M
Headcount170
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2023
CompsBland AI +3

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