Acquisition
Jun 2022Daily acquired Confrere to expand European presence and strengthen telehealth and video infrastructure capabilities.
SourceConversational Voice and Multimodal AI built with Open Source.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Daily is a developer-focused WebRTC infrastructure company building realtime voice, video, recording, transcription, and AI voice-agent tooling for apps and websites.
Primary product
Daily Video SDK and Pipecat/Pipecat Cloud realtime communications platform
Founded
2016
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
20-30
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
WebRTC / realtime communications infrastructure
Business model
usage-based API/SaaS
open-source + managed cloud
enterprise support and compliance add-ons
Funding
Stage
Series B
Total raised
$62.2M
Latest round
Series B · Nov 2021
Latest amount
$40M
Nov 2021 · Renegade Partners
Mar 2021 · Lachy Groom
May 2020 · Jenny Lefcourt
Aug 2016
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Cofounder
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Sarah Milstein
VP of Engineering
VP Product
Head of Supply Chain, Partner
Founders
Co-founder
Investors
Albert Ni
Alex Gerko
Cendana Capital
Compound
Des Traynor
Ed Lando
Ellen Levy
Eric Cohen
Freestyle Capital
Gokul Rajaram
Haystack Ventures
Heritage Group
Jeff Seibert
Lachy Groom
Michael Stoppelman
Moxxie Ventures
Nat Friedman
Pete Huitsing
Renegade Partners
Roger Dickey
Root Ventures
Sarah Imbach
Scott Belsky
Sean Rose
Slack Fund
TenOneTen Ventures
Tiger Global
Wayne Chang
Work Life Ventures
Y Combinator
Work & culture
Remote-first, location-equal, collaboration-oriented, and security-conscious; the company emphasizes veteran video/infrastructure leadership and a distributed team model.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public signals point to location-equal pay, structured salary bands, and transparent promotion practices. Daily also says it cannot compete with big-tech salaries alone, but it prioritizes fairness across locations.
Benefits
location-equal pay
medical/dental/vision plans
401(k) matching
4 months parental leave
remote-first culture
developer/Discord community support
enterprise support packages
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based participant-minute pricing with a free tier, plus add-ons for recording, streaming, telephony, and compliance/commercial support.
Differentiators
- —Pipecat open-source framework and Pipecat Cloud managed hosting
- —Prebuilt UI plus low-level SDK/control-plane options
- —Global WebRTC-native infrastructure with 75+ points of presence
- —HIPAA/GDPR/SOC 2-oriented enterprise readiness
- —Vendor-neutral open-source voice-agent stack
- —Strong docs and developer experience
- —Built around realtime/AI use cases, not just generic video meetings
Technology
WebRTC
Daily Prebuilt
daily-js
Daily React
REST API
React Native
Android SDK
iOS SDK
Flutter SDK
Python SDK
Pipecat
Pipecat Cloud
cloud/local recording
RTMP live streaming
transcription via Deepgram
SIP/PSTN telephony
webhooks
open-source GitHub projects
Customers
developers
product teams
startups
scale-ups
enterprises
telehealth providers
voice-agent builders
NVIDIA
Mercor
Descript
Epic
Vapi
Tavus
Google
Krisp
Competitors
LiveKit
Twilio Video
Agora
100ms
Whereby Embedded
Vonage Video API
Zoom Video SDK
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M (public LinkedIn estimate; roughly $4.5M annual revenue in the LinkedIn snippet)
Estimated monthly visits
245.5K
Traffic estimate as of Feb 2026
Signals & risks
Latest news
Daily · Jan 2026
Pipecat Cloud launched GA as a managed, vendor-neutral platform for deploying and scaling open-source voice agents on Daily infrastructure, with enterprise-grade realtime features and multi-region support.
Daily · Jun 2025
Case study showing Lemon Slice using Daily and Pipecat to rapidly build and launch interactive AI characters with video, audio, recording, and third-party integrations.
Daily · Jan 2025
Daily announced a collaboration with NVIDIA around voice agents for conversational AI, powered by Pipecat and NVIDIA NIM.
Daily · Jun 2022
Daily acquired Confrere to expand into Europe and telehealth, and to deepen video-call quality and compliance capabilities.
TechCrunch · Nov 2021
TechCrunch covered Daily's $40M Series B led by Renegade Partners, bringing total funding above $60M at the time.
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