Vapi
vapi.ai
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$70M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Series B · May 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
19
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
24/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
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
May 13
Raised a round Series B $50M · led by Peak XV Partners · Pulse 2.0
Dec 11, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $20M
Apr 18, 2024
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code
Jan 2021
Went through Y Combinator
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | May 2026 | $50M | Peak XV Partners lead, M12, Venture, Kle | Pulse 2.0 |
| Venture round | Dec 2024 | $20M | — | vapi.ai |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Vapi Inc. | its site |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Nikhil GuptaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jordan DearsleyExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
Bessemer Venture Partners 
Garage Capital 
Peak XV Partners 
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How Vapi hires
Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
77 days
Ghost roles
11%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Vapi scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 19 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 11% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 77 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
Vapi is an artificial intelligence technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2020. The company provides a developer platform for building, testing, and deploying conversational voice AI agents that integrate speech-to-text, large language models, and text-to-speech technologies. It serves enterprise clients across sectors such as healthcare, finance, and retail, offering scalable infrastructure for automating customer support and sales operations.
News
Vapi Raises $50 Million Series B After Reaching One Billion Calls On Its Enterprise Voice AI Platform
Vapi, the leading platform for deploying configurable voice agents at scale, has announced a $50 million Series B funding round, bringing total funding to $72 million. The round was led by Peak XV with participation from M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, Kle
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How We Achieved 99.99% Reliability At Vapi - Vapi AI Blog
At Vapi, we're obsessed with the quality of conversation. But the most human-like AI is useless if the line drops.
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How we solved latency at Vapi - Vapi AI Blog
How we solved latency at Vapi - insights, guidance, and practical detail on agent building and building voice AI agents, from the Vapi engineering team.
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VCs say AI agents will be big in 2025. Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck one startup in the space used to raise $20 million.
Vapi, which is building an infrastructure tool for developers to create AI voice agents, just raised a $20 million Series A from Bessemer.
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Vapi secures $20M to advance AI voice agent platform and scale operations
Vapi secures $20M to advance AI voice agent platform and scale operations - SiliconANGLE
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Vapi Raises $20M to Serve Explosive Demand for Voice AI - Vapi AI Blog
Towards the Voice-First Future. For most of human history, we've shaped our world through conversation. But for decades, as shifted, we adapted ourselves to machines-typing, clicking, and swiping. Now, technology is adapting back. Voice AI has reached a p
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Vapi over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
93
Postings analysed
37
Stack modernity
71/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript30%
Go19%
JavaScript16%
Node JS11%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js5%
Tailwind CSS5%
BullMQ5%
OpenTelemetry5%
Databases
PostgreSQL19%
Redis8%
ClickHouse5%
Amazon Aurora3%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes27%
AWS22%
Twilio16%
Amazon EKS14%
AI & ML
LLM35%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$270k
Typical range
$110k – $325k
Open positions
15
13
Jobs
Junior
7.7%
Middle
15.4%
Senior
7.7%
Staff
69.2%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $110k | $110k |
| Middle | 2 | $205k | $170k – $240k |
| Senior | 1 | $270k | $270k |
| Staff | 9 | $280k | $264k – $325k |
Highest paying role
Member of Technical Staff, Backend
$325k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Vapi
By role, level and city, against the market · 15 jobs with pay
People
Nikhil Gupta
Executive Officer, Director
Jordan Dearsley
Executive Officer, Director
Michael Droesch
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
61/100
Growing
Open positions
19
3 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
75 days
faster than 18% 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.
HR
25% ▼
AI/ML
19% ▼
Leadership
13% ▲
Sales
13% ▲
DevOps
6% ▲
Product
6% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added PoC Library to stack
Sep 2026
Added GDPR to stack
Sep 2026
Added Fivetran to stack
Sep 2026
Added Feature Store to stack
Sep 2026
Added dbt to stack
Sep 2026
Added Databricks to stack
Sep 2026
Added Storybook to stack
Sep 2026
Added Lighthouse to stack
Sep 2026
Added Chrome DevTools to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon Aurora to stack
Sep 2026
Added Atlantis to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 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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18 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 44% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $241k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Sales, DevOps
150 Spear Street, Suite 1100
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff $228k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Sales, Solutions
150 Spear Street, Suite 1100
Earlier presence
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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