LiveKit
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$136.5M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$100M
Venture round · Jan 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
18
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Hiring now
25
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
38/100
hiring for its size, fresh money, rising traction
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 23
First sales or marketing role GTM Systems Engineer
Jun 23
First executive search Head of Legal
Jan 22
Raised a round Venture round $100M
Mar 1, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $21.9M · SEC Form D
Aug 30, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $7.3M · SEC Form D
Oct 7, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $6.7M · SEC Form D
Mar 22, 2021
Raised a round Convertible Note $605k · SEC Form D
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 8 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jan 2026 | $100M | — | bloomberg.com |
| Venture round | Mar 2024 | $21.9M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Aug 2022 | $7.3M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Oct 2021 | $6.7M | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | Mar 2021 | $605k | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | LiveKit Inc | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
David ZhaoExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Russell d'SaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Russell DsaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Index Ventures 
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How LiveKit hires
Truth index
B 76/100
Median time to fill
68 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
75%
Reposted roles
0%
LiveKit scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 75% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 68 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
LiveKit is a developer infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco that provides an open source framework and cloud platform for building, deploying and scaling real-time voice, video and physical AI agents. Founded in 2021 as an open source WebRTC project for livestreaming and video conferencing, it powers voice AI applications for OpenAI, including ChatGPT Advanced Voice, as well as Salesforce, Spotify, Meta and thousands of other customers. It hires software, research and forward deployed engineers, product managers, developer advocates, designers and go-to-market staff in marketing, partnerships and finance.
News
Solving end-of-turn detection: LiveKit Turn Detector v1.0
LiveKit Turn Detector v1 listens to speech directly instead of waiting on a transcript, fusing semantic and acoustic understanding for state-of-the-art end-of-turn detection across 14 languages. With v1, turn detection is a solved problem for agents built
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LiveKit on Telnyx: Lower Cost, Low Latency Voice AI Infrastructure
Run LiveKit on Telnyx for lower costs, ultra low latency, and enterprise SIP capabilities. Build and scale production voice AI agents on carrier grade infrastructure.
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Why WebRTC beats WebSockets for realtime voice AI
WebSockets can move bytes fast, but voice AI agents need more than that. Here's why WebRTC and the SFU architecture behind it is the right transport layer for production realtime voice.
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LiveKit's Series C: towards the voice-driven era of computing
LiveKit raised $100M at a $1B valuation from Index Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Hanabi Capital, Altimeter, and Redpoint Ventures.
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Introducing LiveKit Inference: A unified model interface for voice AI
We're excited to launch LiveKit Inference, a low-latency model gateway, purpose-built for voice AI. With just your LiveKit API key, you can use top-performing speech-to-text (STT), large language m...
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Deploy and scale agents on LiveKit Cloud
Over the past two years, as more teams pushed LiveKit voice agents to production, the same questions kept coming up:
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LiveKit co-founder believes the metaverse needs open infrastructure
In fact, one large social media company approached him about using his app for its 1,000-person company, but was concerned about security using Agora. D'Sa and his team, which includes co-founder David Zhao, developed a free, open source infrastructure fo
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at LiveKit over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
61
Postings analysed
40
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
Go40%
Python33%
C++23%
Rust23%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry8%
FSDP3%
SGLang3%
Databases
ClickHouse10%
Snowflake5%
CockroachDB3%
BigQuery3%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI95%
Kubernetes15%
GitHub13%
NATS10%
AI & ML
LLM15%
ChatGPT8%
Gemma3%
Claude3%
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61 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$284k
Typical range
$147k – $390k
Open positions
25
17
Jobs
Middle
5.9%
Senior
64.7%
Staff
23.5%
Architect
5.9%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $180k | $180k |
| Senior | 11 | $300k | $187k – $320k |
| Staff | 4 | $275k | $240k – $300k |
| Architect | 1 | $390k | $390k |
Highest paying role
Head of Legal
$390k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at LiveKit
By role, level and city, against the market · 25 jobs with pay
People
David Zhao
Executive Officer, Director
Russell d'Sa
Executive Officer, Director
Russell Dsa
Executive Officer, Director
Patrick Chase
Director
Benjamin Hales Ball Jr.
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
25
1 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
64 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
29% ▼
Sales
14% ▲
Backend
10% ▼
AI/ML
5% ▼
Frontend
5% ▲
Robotics
5% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Terraform to stack
Oct 2026
Added PCI DSS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Azure to stack
Oct 2026
Added ElevenLabs to stack
Sep 2026
Added Deepgram to stack
Sep 2026
Added Anthropic to stack
Sep 2026
Added BGP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Java to stack
Sep 2026
Added C# to stack
Sep 2026
Added Physical AI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
6 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 33% remote 500-1000 est. staff $266k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Backend, Communications
Seattle
United States
1 open roles 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $320k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
Jobs
$145k – $200k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp
SQL
AI Agents
LiveKit
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$200k – $300k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
LiveKit
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
WebRTC
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
PCI DSS
SOC 2
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$135k – $300k per year • Equity • Remote (EMEA, North America) • Full-Time
Go
Java
Rust
C#
C++
AI Agents
OpenAI
LiveKit
DevOps
WebRTC
GitHub
Apply
$184k – $250k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
OpenAI
LiveKit
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
$190k – $258k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
AI Agents
OpenAI
LiveKit
Voice Agents
Apply
$180k – $320k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Miami • Los Angeles • Austin • San Antonio • Chicago
Python
Go
Rust
C++
AI Agents
OpenAI
LiveKit
DevOps
WebRTC
Apply
$155k – $180k per year • Equity • Remote (North America) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp
Python
OpenAI
LiveKit
Cybersecurity
Okta
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Management
Slack
Google Workspace
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$135k – $300k per year • Equity • Remote (EMEA, North America) • Full-Time
Python
Qwen
LoRA
vLLM
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
SGLang
PEFT
Llama
Synthetic Data
OpenAI
GRPO
Post-training
FSDP
LiveKit
LLM Evaluation
Apply
$225k – $265k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
OpenAI
LiveKit
Apply
$135k – $300k per year • Equity • Remote (EMEA, North America) • Full-Time
Python
TypeScript
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
LiveKit
Voice Agents
Agentic Workflows
Apply
$135k – $300k per year • Equity • Remote (EMEA, North America) • Full-Time
Go
NATS
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
OpenAI
LiveKit
DevOps
gRPC
OpenTelemetry
etcd
Prometheus
Kubernetes
GitHub
Apply
$172k – $308k per year • Equity • Remote (Ireland) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
Python
Go
Rust
C++
AI Agents
OpenAI
LiveKit
DevOps
WebRTC
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Financials
Total raised
$136.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
5