Smallest AI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$5.2M
1 round on record
Latest round
$5.2M
Venture round · Aug 2025 · 14 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Better Capital, Sierra Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
14 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
65/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
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
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2025 | $5.2M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Smallest, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Sudarshan KamathExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Better Capital 
Sierra Ventures 
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News
Smallest.ai gets $21 Million in Funding to Build Voice 4.0, the Next Generation of Enterprise Voice AI
San Francisco (California) US, August 5: Smallest.ai, a San Francisco-based foundational AI research lab building the next generation of real-time voice AI infrastructure for enterprises, today announced it has surpassed $21 million in total funding follo
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Smallest.ai Raises $21 Million In Funding To Build Voice 4.0, The Next Generation Of Enterprise Voice AI
Smallest.ai has surpassed $21 million in total funding following the close of a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital. The company is a San Francisco-based foundational AI research lab bui
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Smallest.ai Bags $13 Mn To Build Next-Gen Voice AI Models
Voice AI startup Smallest.ai has raised $13 Mn (around 108 Cr) in its Series A funding round led by Seligman Ventures.
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Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human
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Smallest.ai raises $13M to accelerate the development of its asynchronous voice AI architecture
Smallest.ai raises $13M to accelerate the development of its asynchronous voice AI architecture - SiliconANGLE
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Smallest AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
31
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
69/100
Languages
Python
TypeScript
Bash
Go
Databases
Redis
ClickHouse
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
AWS
RabbitMQ
Amazon CloudWatch
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31 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
People
Sudarshan Kamath
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
84/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
3
3 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
58 days
faster than 24% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 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.
Backend
25% ▲
DevOps
25% ▲
QA
25% ▲
Finance
25% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Mumbai
Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Oct 2026
Added WebSockets to stack
Oct 2026
Added TypeScript to stack
Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Oct 2026
Added Locust to stack
Oct 2026
Added k6 to stack
Oct 2026
Added JMeter to stack
Oct 2026
Added JavaScript to stack
Oct 2026
Added Go to stack
Oct 2026
Added Gatling to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Bengaluru
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Bengaluru
India
HQ
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, QA
Mumbai
India
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance
San Francisco
United States
Regional office
311 California Street, Suite 320, San Francisco, CA, 94104, US
Jobs
≈ $13k – $31k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bengaluru
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
WebSockets
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
SLI/SLO/SLA
QA
JMeter
Gatling
k6
Locust
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In office • Full-Time • Bengaluru
Python
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Redis
ClickHouse
RabbitMQ
AI/ML
Speech Recognition
Text-to-Speech
DevOps
Terraform
AWS
Kubernetes
SLI/SLO/SLA
DNS
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Financials
Total raised
$5.2M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $5.2M | Details |