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Vapi

Voice AI for developers.

vapi.ai
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA
11-50
B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

Vapi (legal entity Superpowered Labs Inc.) is a San Francisco-based developer platform for building, deploying, and operating configurable conversational voice AI agents. It abstracts telephony and coordinates speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech, tools, monitoring, and multi-agent workflows for customer-support and other high-volume phone use cases.

Primary product

API-native Vapi platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring voice AI agents, including Assistants, Squads, Composer, Simulations, Monitoring, phone/web integrations, and provider/model integrations.

Founded

2023

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

Approximately 81-121; TechCrunch reported around 100 employees in May 2026, while directory estimates vary.

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Software development

Sub-industry

Developer infrastructure and enterprise conversational voice AI

Offices

150 Spear Street, 11th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105 (HQ)
95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA

Business model

Usage-based self-serve developer platform
Enterprise annual contracts with custom pricing and volume commitments
API/platform fees plus at-cost third-party model, voice, transcription, and telephony costs
Enterprise support, compliance, SLA, and dedicated-account offerings

Funding

Stage

Series B / growth-stage private company

Total raised

$72M

Latest round

Series B · May 2026

Latest amount

$50M

Series B

May 2026 · Peak XV Partners

$50M

Series A

Dec 2024 · Bessemer Venture Partners

$20M

Pre-seed / YC financing

Mar 2021 · Y Combinator

$125K

Seed

Kleiner Perkins

$2.1M

People & investors

Leadership

Jordan Dearsley

Co-founder and CEO

Nikhil Gupta

Co-founder and CTO

Jayson Noland

Chief Financial Officer

Nathalie Criou

VP of Product Management

Amanda Martin

Head of Developer Relations

Trish English

Head of Talent

Sharrifah Lorenz

Head of Partnerships

Colin Buresh

Director of Recruiting

Ernesto Castillo

Head of Sales Development

Shruti S.

Head of Solutions

Dev Seth

Lead Engineer

Andrii Mazur

Founding Designer

Investors

Abstract Ventures
AI Grant
Bessemer Venture Partners
Kleiner Perkins
M12, Microsoft's venture fund
Michael Ovitz
Microsoft M12
Peak XV
Peak XV Partners
Saga Ventures
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Vapi describes a distributed team of high-performing “tireless builders,” with principles including building something worthy of love, committing and following through, seeking raw input, taking ownership, and being direct and kind. A job listing says 70% of the company are previous founders and emphasizes self-direction, product judgment, and direct customer impact.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

Public postings signal competitive salary, equity, comprehensive health coverage, and substantial learning-and-development support. YC job listings have shown technical roles in the approximately $150,000-$300,000 range, but compensation varies by role and location; no universal visa or compensation policy was found.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Unlimited PTO, with four weeks encouraged
Commuter, dependent-care, and fitness programs
Laptop, catered meals, stocked kitchens, and pet-friendly HQ
Meaningful equity and 401(k)
$10,000 annual learning and development budget

Product & market

Pricing

Build is usage-based: Vapi hosting is publicly listed at $0.05 per call minute, SMS/chat at $0.005 per message, phone numbers at $2/month, and provider costs are charged at cost or can be supplied through bring-your-own keys. Scale is custom-priced, generally with annual commitments, volume pricing, enterprise support, and SLAs.

Differentiators

  • —Developer-first, API-native infrastructure rather than a pre-packaged contact-center application
  • —Granular control over models, voices, telephony, tools, prompts, and agent behavior
  • —Low-latency real-time voice with provider interchangeability
  • —Fast prototype-to-production path and support for high-volume enterprise calls
  • —Composer, Monitoring, Simulations, governance, observability, and self-improvement workflows
  • —Multi-assistant orchestration through Squads and phone/web deployment options

Technology

TypeScript
Python
React
Node.js
WebRTC
MongoDB
Redis
Docker
Vercel
Cloudflare
GitHub
OpenAI integrations
Anthropic integrations
Google model integrations
ElevenLabs integrations
Speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech provider orchestration

Customers

Amazon Ring
Kavak
Instawork
New York Life
UnityAI
Cherry
Intuit
ServiceTitan

Competitors

Retell AI
Bland AI
ElevenLabs
Sierra
PolyAI
Decagon
Rasa
Synthflow

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Healthy eight-figure annual recurring-revenue run rate; approximately $10M-$99M ARR as a broad public-evidence range, not audited revenue.

Estimated monthly visits

974.8K

Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026

support@vapi.ai+1 888-670-5720

Latest news

AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals

TechCrunch · May 2026

TechCrunch reported that Amazon Ring routes 100% of inbound calls through Vapi after evaluating more than 40 vendors; it also reported approximately 100 employees, 1-5 million daily calls, and a roughly $500M post-money valuation.

Vapi raises $50M Series B as it reaches 1 billion calls

Vapi blog · May 2026

Vapi announced a $50M Peak XV-led Series B, bringing reported total funding to $72M, alongside more than 1 billion calls and more than 1 million developers.

Vapi raises $50M Series B as it reaches 1 billion calls, powering the next generation of enterprise voice AI

GlobeNewswire / Vapi · May 2026

The company described its API-native enterprise platform, named customers including Ring, Kavak, ServiceTitan, New York Life, and Intuit, and said enterprise ARR had grown tenfold.

Fundamentals Are More Important Than Ever: Lessons from Product Leaders Building Differentiated Products in an AI Future

Vapi blog · Apr 2026

Vapi discussed product differentiation, domain expertise, judgment, and the operational learning generated by millions of real-world voice interactions.

Vapi raises $20M in Bessemer, Y Combinator-backed round

Reuters · Dec 2024

Reuters reported Vapi's $20M Series A, approximately $130M valuation, founders Jordan Dearsley and Nikhil Gupta, and participation from Bessemer, YC, Abstract, AI Grant, Saga Ventures, and Michael Ovitz.

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