building @dacioai, founder @letsfinin @vozio . Making India's road safer with AI

Bengaluru, India
Joined December 2008
Suman Gandham retweeted
#151: #AIRadarDaily — @Vobiz_Ai There is a quiet, frustrating reality inside every engineering team trying to build conversational voice agents today. Thanks to large language models and ultra-fast speech-to-text, creating an AI that sounds perfectly human in a browser is almost a solved problem. But the moment you try to connect that brilliant AI agent to an actual, real-world phone call, the entire experience falls apart. Teams are forced to stitch together legacy telecom APIs built a decade ago for traditional call centers, wrestling with agonizingly slow audio routing, dropped connections, and massive latency spikes. When an AI takes three seconds to respond because the underlying telephony infrastructure is too slow, the illusion of a natural conversation shatters entirely. It takes builders with a profound grasp of global telecom infrastructure and the technical rigor to fundamentally rewire how machines interface with the public switched telephone network to solve this at the root. That is exactly what Suman Gandham (@sumangbcn) and Vikash Srivastava are doing with Vobiz AI. Founded in 2025, the Bengaluru-based team is building a deeply intelligent, AI-native telephony infrastructure platform where autonomous voice agents are treated as first-class citizens, not bolt-on afterthoughts. Vobiz AI bypasses the bloated middle layers of traditional telecom, deploying carrier-grade SIP trunking and bidirectional WebSocket audio streaming directly to the AI model. Instead of relying on slow, batch-processed audio, they stream real-time audio in 20-millisecond frames, achieving sub-80ms telephony latency. Whether bridging WebRTC browser sessions to physical phone numbers across 190+ countries or executing complex, real-time call controls like mid-sentence interruptions, the platform handles the brutal, unglamorous physics of global voice routing. The true moat here is uncompromising speed paired with global scale. Vobiz AI completely abstracts away the soul-crushing complexity of carrier interconnects, E-164 numbering, and regulatory compliance. It allows AI builders to go from a simple API key to a live, low-latency phone call in minutes. It shifts the paradigm from fighting legacy telecom infrastructure to deploying deterministic, lightning-fast voice agents that actually feel human. The market? Voice AI startups, massive enterprise contact centers, and SaaS platforms who desperately need to deploy conversational agents at scale without the crippling latency of traditional telephony. Seeing homegrown founders head-down, quietly architecting the heavy-duty connectivity layer that will power the next massive wave of human-computer interaction, is profoundly inspiring. They are giving AI builders their velocity and their agents a true voice back. Let's celebrate the builders. ✍️ @jaybharatingle #VoiceAI #Telephony #ProductNation
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Heading to @Magicball_dev Agentic Summit on 22 July to talk about @Vobiz_Ai. If you’re in the room and building voice agents (or just wrestling with how #telephony shapes their performance) let’s talk.
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Suman Gandham retweeted
Telephony infra startup Vobiz.ai raises $1 million led by Piper Serica entrackr.com/snippets/teleph…
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Vobiz AI— $1M seed. Lead: Piper Serica VC Fund. Founders: Suman Gandham and Vikash Srivastava — former Finin and Plivo executives. AI-first telephony infrastructure for Voice AI products. #Funding #CredX #AI #India
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Vobiz.ai Raises $1M to Build AI-Native Voice Infrastructure for the Next Wave of Conversational Tech Read more at: tinyurl.com/2s3b6v2k
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Vobiz AI Raises $1 Million to Strengthen AI-Driven Telephony Infrastructure Read More: ascendants.in/funding-feed/v…
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Vobiz Secures $1 Million Fund for AI Voice Infrastructure. Bengaluru-based startup Vobiz ai raises $1 million in seed funding round led by Piper Serica VC to expand its engineering team and AI voice telecom network.
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Suman Gandham retweeted
Bolna now supports native integration with Vobiz AI for Voice AI calling in India and global markets. Businesses can now connect their existing Vobiz accounts to Bolna, enabling AI-powered inbound and outbound calling using their own phone numbers. The integration supports both dashboard operations and API access. This partnership strengthens our telephony infrastructure for Indian businesses deploying Voice AI at scale. Learn more: bolna.ai/docs/vobiz
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Glad to see coverage of dashcams in the context of road rage incidents by the TOI today: I'm personally very bullish about the dashcam space in India ⤵️ (1) Passengers are demanding in-ride safety (eg panic buttons & dashcams) (2) Upcoming hit & run laws provide incentive to have dashcam to prove innocence (3) Shift from DCO (driver cum owner) to managed fleets due to EV transition means fleet operators want more visibility on their drivers (4) Soft telematics devices (eg smart phones) are very easy to game (have heard horror stories from fleet operators) (5) Many older vehicle generations will take 7+ years to phase out, during which dashcams will be required from a non-OEM source ✅Have met 2 fantastic companies recently: (1) Cautio (focused on passenger carrying vehicles) (2) Dacio AI (focused on goods carrying vehicles) ➡️If you're building something in the vehicle telematics space, feel free to reach out!
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Sandeep Nambiar, Vice President & Business Head (Lending) @ Open Financial Technologies, writes about how banks can use e-invoicing automation to win the changing trade finance game. Read more: bit.ly/3GZ8yU8 @BankWithOpen
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Salil Ravindran, VP-Product Strategy & Growth @BankWithOpen, explores the potential of digital banking as a business model enabler today in the Ep-2 of Digital Banking: Behind The Scenes- Digital Banking Reboot. Watch the full video here: bit.ly/3T7rSB9 @salilrav
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Get the digital banking all-rounder for your team & manage accounting, payments, payroll, GST & more effectively for your business. 🚀 Also, we are proud to be the official digital banking partner for @RCBtweets #digitalbanking #playbold
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Last evening was unreal! The energy in the packed room was infectious! We have such a vibrant fintech community! Thanks to 170+ folks who came (despite not getting cabs for 45+mins) @zwitchdotio @JarAppHQ @Card91_io @getpazcare Getting to meet people whose work you admire >>>
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Suman Gandham retweeted
Bangalore Fintech Happy Hour is happening this weekend! Invites go out via email later today. If you've registered earlier, please check your spam folder and RSVP! Thanks to our stellar sponsors & friends @zwitchdotio, @JarAppHQ, @Card91_io & @getpazcare! See you on Saturday!
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In this intriguing round up of the year 2021, around the topic of #womenintech Our Co-founder & CFO, @deenajacob16 discusses the shift she has observed in fundraising by women leaders & even from the perspective of investors, VC firms. Read more here: yourstory.com/herstory/2021/…
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Even in the face of challenges in 2021, there were some stories of triumph & we wanted to celebrate them. Here's a small token of our admiration to everyone who endured this year, in the words of Rida Tharana. A reminder that there is #MoreToYou. bit.ly/MoreToYou
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