Smallest AI appoints Siddharth Sharma as President, BFSI, India
GlobeNewswire
Smallest AI appointed banking and digital-finance veteran Siddharth Sharma to lead revenue and partnerships for its growing BFSI business in India.
Read articleSmallest AI is a foundational AI research and infrastructure company building real-time voice AI for enterprises. Its platform includes Lightning for text-to-speech, Pulse for speech-to-text, Electron as a small language model, Hydra for native speech-to-speech, and tools for deploying production voice agents. The company focuses on low-latency, multilingual speech systems for use cases including customer service, collections, onboarding and other contact-center workflows. It supports cloud, private-cloud and on-premise deployments for regulated enterprises and serves customers across sectors including financial services, healthcare, contact centers and BPO.View more
Smallest AI is a foundational AI research and infrastructure company building real-time voice AI for enterprises. Its platform includes Lightning for text-to-speech, Pulse for speech-to-text, Electron as a small language model, Hydra for native speech-to-speech, and tools for deploying production voice agents. The company focuses on low-latency, multilingual speech systems for use cases including customer service, collections, onboarding and other contact-center workflows. It supports cloud, private-cloud and on-premise deployments for regulated enterprises and serves customers across sectors including financial services, healthcare, contact centers and BPO.
- Founded
- 2023
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Company stage
- Series A
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
Why work here
Smallest AI offers candidates the chance to work on technically demanding real-time AI problems spanning speech recognition, speech generation, speech-to-speech systems, small language models and production voice agents. The company raised a $13 million Series A in July 2026, taking total funding above $21 million, and is expanding enterprise deployments across regulated industries. Its engineering roles emphasize low latency, reliability, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and high ownership. The company also develops proprietary AI models rather than only assembling third-party APIs, creating opportunities to work across research, infrastructure and production deployment.Read more
Smallest AI offers candidates the chance to work on technically demanding real-time AI problems spanning speech recognition, speech generation, speech-to-speech systems, small language models and production voice agents. The company raised a $13 million Series A in July 2026, taking total funding above $21 million, and is expanding enterprise deployments across regulated industries. Its engineering roles emphasize low latency, reliability, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and high ownership. The company also develops proprietary AI models rather than only assembling third-party APIs, creating opportunities to work across research, infrastructure and production deployment.
- Industry
- Artificial Intelligence / Voice AI
- Open jobs
- 2 open jobs
- Notable investors
- Seligman Ventures, Sierra Ventures, 3one4 Capital, Better Capital, Upsparks Capital, Schema Ventures, DeVC, Mission Street Capital, Tiny VC
Tech stack
Python
Programming Language
Go
Programming Language
TypeScript
Programming Language
AWS
Cloud Infrastructure
Kubernetes
Container Orchestration
Docker
Containers
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code
Helm
Kubernetes Tooling
MongoDB
Database
Redis
Cache and Data Store
RabbitMQ
Messaging
Amazon SQS
Messaging
Amazon CloudWatch
Monitoring
New Relic
Observability
Amazon CloudFront
Content Delivery Network
AWS Amplify
Application Platform
Key people
5 peopleSudarshan KamathCo-founderView bioHide bio
Co-founder and CEO of Smallest AI. An IIT Guwahati mechanical engineering graduate, Kamath has worked on AI and deep-learning products and previously held roles associated with Bosch, Toppr and Vakilsearch. At Smallest AI he leads the company and has been closely involved in developing its speech and voice AI products, including Lightning.
Akshat MandloiCo-founderView bioHide bio
Co-founder of Smallest AI and an IIT Guwahati graduate. Mandloi has a technical background spanning AI, autonomous systems, deep learning and machine learning, including published work on perception-based navigation. At Smallest AI he works on the company's speech models and real-time voice AI technology.
Apoorv SoodGlobal Head of Go-To-MarketView bioHide bio
Global Head of Go-To-Market at Smallest AI, responsible for commercial expansion and enterprise engagement. He previously served as Vice President of Global Business Development and Partnerships at WebEngage and has experience building partnerships and go-to-market programs for technology companies.
Arjun JainChief ScientistView bioHide bio
Chief Scientist at Smallest AI and an early investor and technical advisor to the company. Jain holds a PhD from the Max Planck Institute, has worked with Yann LeCun at NYU and has served as adjunct faculty at IISc. His research spans generative AI, computer vision, speech and multimodal systems, helping translate Smallest AI research into production.
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Siddharth SharmaPresident, BFSI, IndiaView bioHide bio
President of BFSI, India at Smallest AI, responsible for revenue and partnerships across banking, financial services and insurance. He brings more than 20 years of financial-services experience and has led digital initiatives at organizations including ICICI Bank, YES BANK, Kotak Mahindra Bank and CRED.
Latest company news
3 storiesTenstorrent and Smallest.ai partner to bring production-grade voice AI on-prem
Tenstorrent
Smallest AI and Tenstorrent announced an on-premise voice AI stack running Smallest AI's Lightning V2 text-to-speech model on Tenstorrent Galaxy Blackhole servers, targeting lower inference costs and enterprise data sovereignty.
Read articleSmallest.ai gets $21 million in funding to build Voice 4.0
PR Newswire
Smallest AI raised a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital, bringing total funding to more than $21 million. The company also introduced its Voice 4.0 direction and Hydra speech-to-speech architecture.
Read articleJobs at Smallest AI
2 open rolesManager - Finance and Accounts
Smallest AIMumbai, India
Software Engineer - Systems and Reliablity
Smallest AIBengaluru, India
Senior SDET
Smallest AIBengaluru, India
