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

AI voice startup Vapi hits 0M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals

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

Admin4 weeks ago06 mins

Amazon Ring, facing a surge in customer-support calls during last year’s holiday season, evaluated more than 40 AI voice vendors before choosing startup Vapi to handle its inbound phone traffic. Today, Ring routes 100% of its inbound calls through Vapi’s platform. That deployment helped Vapi raise a $50 million Series B led by Peak XV…

With India’s corporate banking lagging decades behind consumer fintech, TransBnk raises M to bridge the gap

With India’s corporate banking lagging decades behind consumer fintech, TransBnk raises $25M to bridge the gap

Admin10 months ago07 mins

While digitization has transformed banking for Indian consumers, corporate banking has been left in the slow lane — still relying heavily on clunky infrastructure, paper trails, and spreadsheet-heavy workflows. TransBnk wants to address that gap, and Bessemer Venture Partners has invested in the three-year-old startup in a $25 million round to accelerate its progress. Over…

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AI data analyst startup Julius nabs $10M seed round

Admin11 months ago05 mins

Julius AI, a startup that describes itself as an AI data analyst, announced it has raised a $10 million seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Horizon VC, 8VC, Y Combinator, the AI Grant accelerator participated in the round along with several high-profile angel investors, including Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, and…

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Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard

Admin1 year ago04 mins

The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma.” His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar but the prank went viral. While he never worked for X, he is actually very much a techy….