Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
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
Business model
Stage
Series B / growth-stage private company
Total raised
$72M
Latest round
Series B · May 2026
Latest amount
$50M
May 2026 · Peak XV Partners
Dec 2024 · Bessemer Venture Partners
Mar 2021 · Y Combinator
Kleiner Perkins
Leadership
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder and CTO
Jayson Noland
Chief Financial Officer
Nathalie Criou
VP of Product Management
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
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
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
Technology
Customers
Competitors
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
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 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.
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.
Vapi blog · Apr 2026
Vapi discussed product differentiation, domain expertise, judgment, and the operational learning generated by millions of real-world voice interactions.
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.