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Bolna, a voice AI startup, has raised $6.3 million in a seed funding round led by General Catalyst.
The round also saw participation from Y Combinator, Blume Ventures, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital, and Eight Capital, along with angels Aarthi Ramamurthy, Arpan Sheth, Sriwatsan Krishnan, Ravi Iyer, and Taro Fukuyama, among others.
The fresh capital will be used to expand Bolna’s engineering and deployment teams, invest in proprietary AI and machine learning systems for vernacular voice interactions, and strengthen enterprise-grade infrastructure to support high-volume, production deployments.
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Maitreya Wagh, Founder and CEO of Bolna said, “Voice remains the most critical channel for enterprises, but migrating from IVR or human-led workflows to voice AI is a long and complex process. Most companies still have to wait weeks for custom-built agents. Our focus is on enabling enterprises to build, test, deploy, and monitor voice AI agents on their own, at scale.”
"Bolna makes it so easy to build and deploy Voice AI agents that we foresee them becoming the go-to platform whenever any business thinks about automating their calls with Voice AI," said Neeraj Arora, CEO India, MENA & Managing Director, General Catalyst.
"We don't believe a single foundational model can meet enterprise Voice AI needs," said Prateek Sachan, Founder & CTO of Bolna. "Our orchestration layer routes every call to the best-fit model for the desired outcome, rather than forcing enterprises into one provider," he added.
“When we met Prateek and Maitreya, other investors had told them to downplay the India focus and pretend they were a global company. I told them the opposite lean into it. India has 22 official languages and hundreds of dialects. Building voice AI that actually works there is a hard problem, and they were solving it while already generating revenue. The best companies often win by dominating a specific market before expanding, and Bolna is doing exactly that”, said Tom Blomfield, Group Partner, Y-Combinator.
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About Bolna AI
Founded in 2024, Bolna is building a self-serve platform that allows enterprises to design, deploy, and monitor voice AI agents, without long implementation cycles or specialised AI expertise. The platform supports more than 10 Indian languages and is designed for real-world telephony conditions, including noisy environments and regional accents.
Since its first commercial deployment in May 2025, Bolna has scaled from handling around 1,500 calls per day to over 200,000 daily calls. The company now reports more than 1,050 paying customers across sectors including e-commerce, BFSI, logistics, recruitment, and education.
Bolna’s customer base includes enterprises such as Varun Beverages, along with high-growth startups including spinny and Snabbit. The platform is used across high-volume voice workflows as well as niche, voice-dependent industries such as travel and matrimonial services, where multilingual voice remains the primary channel.
A key differentiator for Bolna is its orchestration layer, which allows enterprises to operate voice AI systems across multiple languages and call scenarios within a single platform. Built for high-volume telephony, the system helps enterprises maintain consistent performance as call volumes and use cases scale.
While Bolna serves customers in more than 10 countries, its primary focus remains India, one of the world’s most complex voice markets. The company was the only India-focused startup in its Y Combinator batch.
As enterprises move beyond AI pilots into core operations, voice is emerging as a key interface for automation. Bolna aims to provide foundational infrastructure as Indian businesses rethink how billions of conversations will be managed in the years ahead.
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