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Samora AI

Multilingual voice agents with safe human escalation when needed

samora.ai
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA
1-10
B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Overview

Samora AI is a YC W26-backed, San Francisco-based company building managed multilingual voice agents for high-volume inbound and outbound calls. Public sources conflict on the founding year and funding totals, so this profile uses the most corroborated company/LinkedIn/third-party records and flags the funding inconsistencies in the round list.

Primary product

Managed multilingual voice agents for inbound and outbound call automation

Founded

2024

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

10-20 employees

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AI voice agents / contact-center automation

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Business model

B2B SaaS
managed voice-operations service

Funding

Stage

seed

Latest round

Grant · Apr 2026

People & investors

Leadership

Kartik Sawhney

Co-Founder & CEO

Vineeth Kumar

Co-Founder & CTO

Shakul Sonker

Co-Founder & COO

Sahil Garg

Chief of Staff

Nilay K. Bhatnagar

Founding AI Engineer

Investors

Microsoft
Rebel Fund
Techstars
The Explorer Fund
Toloka.vc
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Founder-led and fast-moving, with public hiring language emphasizing outcomes over hours, craft and discipline, autonomous work in small pods, and conversational design aimed at joyful customer experiences.

Compensation

Public hiring posts show a US GTM role at roughly $100K-$150K plus 0.5%-1.0% equity, India GTM/FDE roles around ₹1.2M-₹3M plus 0.5%-2.0% equity, and a Bangalore FDE role at 12L-30L INR plus ESOPs; an earlier GTM fellow post showed ₹25K-₹40K/month.

Product & market

Differentiators

  • —Multilingual and dialect-aware voice agents
  • —Code-switching and interruption handling
  • —Policy-driven intent and action controls
  • —Managed deployment, monitoring, and human escalation
  • —CRM/ATS/ticketing integrations
  • —Omnichannel follow-up across voice, WhatsApp, SMS, and email
  • —Minimal engineering / no prompt tuning positioning
  • —Go-live in about one week

Technology

Python
JavaScript
OpenAI Whisper
GPT-4
GPT-5
real-time speech models
text-to-speech
CCaaS integrations
CRM integrations
ATS integrations
ticketing integrations
WhatsApp
SMS
email

Customers

Signify (Philips)
UNICEF
Government of India
financial services companies
recruitment teams
healthcare organizations
consumer goods companies
automotive businesses

Competitors

Dialpad
Decagon
Observe.AI
Replicant
Cognigy
Genesys
NICE
Five9

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$1M-$2M

Estimated monthly visits

4K

Traffic estimate as of May 2026

founders@samora.ai+1 510 766 3419

Latest news

Samora AI runs multilingual voice agents that handle high-volume calls end to end

Top AI Product · Jun 2026

Explains Samora’s managed multilingual voice-agent product, named customers, and reported outcomes such as faster contact resolution and recruitment reach.

A blind technologist’s journey to building Samora AI, with OpenAI in the stack

Inc Business · Feb 2026

Republished/related feature on Samora AI’s origins, product direction, and OpenAI-powered voice-assistant architecture.

A blind technologist’s journey to building Samora AI, with OpenAI in the stack

YourStory · Feb 2026

Profile of Kartik Sawhney and Samora AI, describing him as co-founder and CEO and outlining the product’s voice-AI focus and OpenAI stack.

Launch YC: Samora: Multilingual and Production Grade Voice Agents

Y Combinator

Official YC launch page describing Samora’s multilingual, domain-aware production voice agents, guardrails, integrations, and customer outcomes.

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