Vapi Raises $50 Million Series B to Scale Enterprise Voice AI…

Team S · 2026-05-12T15:18:48.000Z

🇺🇸 San Francisco-based voice AI startup Vapi has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, and existing investors. The latest raise brings the company’s total funding to $72 million and reportedly values the startup at around $500 million post-money. Founded by Jordan Dearsley and Nikhil Gupta, Vapi develops API-native infrastructure that enables enterprises and developers to build, deploy, and manage AI voice agents at scale. The company has rapidly emerged as one of the fastest-growing players in the enterprise voice AI sector, with its platform now powering more than 1 billion calls globally and supporting over 1 million developers. Vapi’s enterprise customers include Amazon Ring, Intuit, New York Life, Kavak, Instawork, and Cherry. Amazon Ring reportedly routes 100% of its inbound customer support calls through Vapi after evaluating more than 40 voice AI vendors, highlighting the startup’s growing traction among large-scale enterprise clients. The company said it has achieved 10x growth in enterprise ARR as businesses increasingly adopt AI-powered voice systems across customer support, collections, appointment scheduling, sales workflows, and IVR automation. Vapi’s infrastructure is designed for low-latency performance, customizable workflows, and production-scale deployment, allowing companies to integrate AI voice systems without managing complex telephony infrastructure internally. The fresh capital will be used to expand engineering capabilities, strengthen infrastructure reliability, improve governance and monitoring systems for enterprise AI agents, and scale go-to-market operations globally. Vapi also plans to focus heavily on predictability, uptime guarantees, and compliance tooling as enterprises deploy AI voice systems into increasingly sensitive workflows. The funding round reflects surging investor interest in enterprise AI infrastructure startups building foundational tooling for autonomous customer interaction systems. Voice AI has rapidly become one of the most competitive segments within generative AI, with startups racing to replace traditional call-center infrastructure using conversational AI agents capable of handling large-scale enterprise interactions.

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