Vapi raises $50m Series B led by Peak XV for enterprise voice AI
Peak XV leads. M12, Kleiner Perkins, and Bessemer Venture Partners join; earlier investors return. Amazon Ring, Intuit, and New York Life are named enterprise customers; total funding now stands at $72m. Vapi, the San Francisco-based enterprise voice-AI platform, has raised $50m in a Series B round to scale its voice-agent infrastructure, the company said on […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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