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Meet Bolna

Bolna is a voice AI platform for businesses that want to automate inbound and outbound phone conversations. Its orchestration platform lets enterprises create, test, deploy and monitor multilingual voice agents through APIs and no-code tools while connecting speech recognition, language models, text-to-speech and telephony providers. Bolna supports use cases including customer support, sales and lead qualification, collections, recruitment, reminders and e-commerce operations. The platform is designed for high-volume calling and India's multilingual environment, including conversations that switch between languages. Bolna also publishes an open-source voice-agent framework and provides integrations for telephony, workflow automation and AI model providers.View more

Bolna is a voice AI platform for businesses that want to automate inbound and outbound phone conversations. Its orchestration platform lets enterprises create, test, deploy and monitor multilingual voice agents through APIs and no-code tools while connecting speech recognition, language models, text-to-speech and telephony providers. Bolna supports use cases including customer support, sales and lead qualification, collections, recruitment, reminders and e-commerce operations. The platform is designed for high-volume calling and India's multilingual environment, including conversations that switch between languages. Bolna also publishes an open-source voice-agent framework and provides integrations for telephony, workflow automation and AI model providers.

Founded
2024
Company size
51-200 employees
Company stage
Seed
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA

Why work here

Bolna may appeal to candidates interested in production-scale voice AI and multilingual systems. The company is a Y Combinator Fall 2025 company and raised a $6.3 million seed round led by General Catalyst in 2026. Its public engineering work shows problems involving high-volume real-time calling, PostgreSQL and Redis performance, ClickHouse analytics and multilingual language detection. Bolna reports serving more than 1,000 companies, while its engineering blog describes infrastructure handling very large call volumes. The company also maintains an open-source voice-agent framework. Current hiring material emphasizes high ownership and fast learning, making it relevant for candidates who prefer hands-on roles in an early-stage technical environment.Read more

Bolna may appeal to candidates interested in production-scale voice AI and multilingual systems. The company is a Y Combinator Fall 2025 company and raised a $6.3 million seed round led by General Catalyst in 2026. Its public engineering work shows problems involving high-volume real-time calling, PostgreSQL and Redis performance, ClickHouse analytics and multilingual language detection. Bolna reports serving more than 1,000 companies, while its engineering blog describes infrastructure handling very large call volumes. The company also maintains an open-source voice-agent framework. Current hiring material emphasizes high ownership and fast learning, making it relevant for candidates who prefer hands-on roles in an early-stage technical environment.

Industry
Voice AI / Conversational AI
Open jobs
6 open jobs
Notable investors
General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Blume Ventures, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital, Eight Capital

Tech stack

PostgreSQL

Database

Redis

Caching

ClickHouse Cloud

Analytics Database

ClickPipes

Data Replication

Python

Programming Language

Docker

Containerization

LiteLLM

LLM Orchestration

Twilio

Telephony

Plivo

Telephony

Key people

2 people
Maitreya WaghCo-founder and CEOView bio

Co-founder and CEO of Bolna. An IIT Delhi graduate, Wagh previously worked at Bain & Company and later at Probo. His background spans engineering, consulting and startup operations, and he co-founded Bolna to build voice AI infrastructure for multilingual enterprise calling.

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Prateek SachanCo-founder and CTOView bio

Co-founder and CTO of Bolna and an IIT Delhi alumnus. Sachan previously built and scaled technology at Zomato, Tata 1mg, BrowserStack and Atlassian. At Bolna he focuses on the voice API and technical infrastructure behind the company's conversational AI platform.

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Latest company news

4 stories

Building a multi-lingual conversationalist for India

Bolna

Bolna detailed its live language-identification system, which allows voice agents to detect when callers change languages and switch speech recognition, voice and agent instructions for the following response.

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How We Cut API Latency by More Than Half with PostgreSQL and Redis

Bolna

Bolna described reducing p95 latency on its call API from roughly 700-800 milliseconds to 300-400 milliseconds by reducing PostgreSQL queries, introducing Redis caching and parallelizing independent operations.

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BigQuery to ClickHouse at 15M Call Minutes a Day: What Broke, What We Fixed, and How We Cut Costs 6x

Bolna

Bolna documented moving its high-volume analytics pipeline from BigQuery to ClickHouse Cloud, using PostgreSQL replication and ClickPipes to improve data freshness and reduce analytics costs.

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Bolna nabs $6.3M from General Catalyst for its India-focused voice orchestration platform

TechCrunch

Bolna raised a $6.3 million seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Y Combinator, Blume Ventures, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital and Eight Capital.

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Jobs at Bolna

6 open roles