Author: Taro Fukuyama Executive Top Voice
Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarof/
🎉 Portfolio Highlight: Bolna (YC F25) 🎉
Bolna is the voice AI platform built for India's uniquely complex telephony market. Indian enterprises handle over a billion voice calls a day across customer support, recruitment, logistics, and collections, yet most still run on legacy IVR or human-led workflows. Bolna's self-serve orchestration layer lets enterprises design, test, deploy, and monitor human-like voice agents in more than 10 Indian languages, including Hindi, Hinglish, Tamil, and Telugu, with sub-300ms latency and model routing per call. Since its first commercial deployment in May 2025, Bolna has scaled from 1,500 to over 200,000 daily calls, serves 1,050+ paying customers including Varun Beverages, Spinny, and Snabbit, and recently raised a $6.3M seed led by General Catalyst.
Bolna was founded in 2024 by Maitreya Wagh (CEO) and Prateek Sachan (CTO), an India-focused YC F25 team that leaned into their home market when other investors told them to pretend they were global. Their depth in Indian voice infrastructure, accent handling, and real-world telephony conditions is exactly the kind of localized technical edge that wins multilingual markets.
Bolna is the voice AI platform built for India's uniquely complex telephony market. Indian enterprises handle over a billion voice calls a day across customer support, recruitment, logistics, and collections, yet most still run on legacy IVR or human-led workflows. Bolna's self-serve orchestration layer lets enterprises design, test, deploy, and monitor human-like voice agents in more than 10 Indian languages, including Hindi, Hinglish, Tamil, and Telugu, with sub-300ms latency and model routing per call. Since its first commercial deployment in May 2025, Bolna has scaled from 1,500 to over 200,000 daily calls, serves 1,050+ paying customers including Varun Beverages, Spinny, and Snabbit, and recently raised a $6.3M seed led by General Catalyst.
Bolna was founded in 2024 by Maitreya Wagh (CEO) and Prateek Sachan (CTO), an India-focused YC F25 team that leaned into their home market when other investors told them to pretend they were global. Their depth in Indian voice infrastructure, accent handling, and real-world telephony conditions is exactly the kind of localized technical edge that wins multilingual markets.
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