India-focused voice AI startup Bolna has raised $6.3M in a seed funding round to expand its voice orchestration platform and accelerate enterprise adoption. The company builds infrastructure that enables businesses to deploy and manage AI-powered voice agents tailored to local communication patterns.
The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Y Combinator, Blume Ventures, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital, and Eight Capital, alongside several angel investors.
Turning voice demand into revenue
Voice-based communication plays a central role in India across customer support, sales, hiring, and training. While demand for voice AI has grown rapidly, early skepticism remained around whether Indian enterprises would pay for such solutions.
Bolna entered Y Combinator’s fall 2025 batch after demonstrating consistent monthly revenue exceeding $25K. Since then, the company has increased pilot pricing and continued to grow usage and revenue, signalling willingness among customers to pay for voice automation.
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An orchestration layer built for India
Bolna is developing a voice AI orchestration platform that connects and manages multiple voice models and infrastructure providers. The system is designed to handle market-specific challenges such as background noise, mixed-language conversations, number formatting, keypad inputs, and caller verification through platforms like Truecaller.
Rather than relying on a single model provider, the platform allows customers to switch between models or deploy different models across regions, depending on performance and cost considerations.
Self-serve adoption and enterprise traction
The company says roughly 75% of its revenue currently comes from self-serve customers, primarily small and mid-sized businesses. These customers use the platform to deploy voice agents by describing workflows without deep technical knowledge.
At the same time, Bolna is pursuing larger enterprise contracts through custom implementations supported by forward-deployed engineers. The company has secured two large enterprise customers and has several additional pilots underway, while expanding its specialist team to support these deployments.
Scaling call volumes and ARR
Bolna reports handling more than 200,000 calls per day and approaching $700K in annual recurring revenue. While the majority of call volume remains in English and Hindi, usage across regional languages is increasing steadily.
The new funding will be used to grow the engineering team, expand enterprise deployments, and further develop the platform as voice AI adoption accelerates across India’s business landscape.
