PR Newswire · Jun 2026
Cresta announced deployment of Conversation Intelligence, AI Agent, and Agent Assist for Mets ticketing and fan service; the announcement also referenced Training Simulator and Conductor.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 28, 2026
Cresta Intelligence, Inc. (Cresta/Cresta AI) is a private enterprise Customer Experience AI company founded out of Stanford's AI Lab. Its platform unifies autonomous AI agents, AI-augmented human agents, and conversation intelligence to improve contact-center customer experience, efficiency, and revenue. Cresta says it serves Fortune 500/1000 enterprises.
Primary product
Cresta's unified CX AI platform, centered on Cresta Opera (a no-code AI orchestration layer), with AI Agent, Agent Assist, Conversation Intelligence, Knowledge Agent, Quality Management, Training Simulator, and Conductor products.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California, USA (100 South Murphy Ave., Suite 300); some third-party databases list Palo Alto as headquarters or a historical operating address.
Team size
600+ employees (company-reported; third-party estimates range from approximately 500-600, while older databases report 101-250).
Work style
Flexible
98 jobs at Cresta
Industry
Software Development / Enterprise Software
Sub-industry
Customer experience AI, contact-center AI, conversational AI, conversation intelligence
Offices
Business model
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder
Chief Revenue Officer
Head of People
Chief Technology Officer
Russell Banzon
Chief Marketing Officer
Sai Vivek
Chief Customer Officer
Vahid Manie
Chief Financial Officer
Josh Levin
Head of Product
Xiangru Chen
Vice President of Engineering
Investors
Cresta describes a high-autonomy, high-accountability culture organized around principles including “Mission is the boss,” patient strategy with impatient execution, helping customers win, doing too much, pursuing craft, courage to be disliked, staying lean, and jumping in. It describes a global team with both remote opportunities and office hubs; role-specific hybrid expectations apply.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public job postings state that compensation generally includes base salary, equity, and benefits, with amounts varying by experience, skills, location, and local requirements. Specific salary bands were not consistently disclosed in the reviewed evidence.
Benefits
Pricing
Enterprise pricing; public evidence indicates demo-/sales-led purchasing rather than published self-serve pricing. Exact seat, usage, and implementation rates are not public.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $10M-$20M annual revenue according to a third-party company-data estimate; this conflicts with a separate 2025/2026 public LinkedIn signal claiming Cresta had crossed $100M ARR, so revenue should be treated as unknown rather than definitive.
Estimated monthly visits
119.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
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