Daily is a WebRTC developer platform offering cross-platform SDKs and APIs for real-time voice, video, and AI, with a focus on ultra-low-latency conversational voice and multimodal AI agents. The company is the creator of Pipecat, an open-source orchestration framework for real-time voice and multimodal AI agents, and offers Pipecat Cloud for deploying voice agents on its global WebRTC infrastructure. Founded in 2016 by Kwindla Hultman Kramer and Nina Kuruvilla and part of Y Combinator's Winter 2016 batch, Daily raised a $15M Series A and a $40M Series B led by Renegade Partners.
Daily
ActiveConversational Voice and Multimodal AI built with Open Source
Total raised
$55.5M
3 rounds
Stage
Series B
Nov 2021
Team
51-200
since 2016
Pricing
—
Founded
2016
San Francisco, United States
Agent-ready
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WebRTC developer platform with cross-platform SDKs
APIs for real-time voice, video, and AI
Ultra-low-latency conversational voice support
Multimodal AI agent capabilities
Creator of the open-source Pipecat framework
Pipecat Cloud for deploying voice agents
Global WebRTC infrastructure
Orchestration for real-time AI pipelines
12/100
Early
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
No public agent surfaces detected yet.
Cumulative raise
From 2016 to 2026 · 3 rounds tracked
Total
$55.5M
Nov 2021 Series B $40M ● Renegade Partners
Mar 2021 Series A $15M incl. Tiger Global Management
Jan 2016 Seed $500K ● Y Combinator
Capital network
$55.5M raised ·8 backers·10 network links
- Backers8
- Shared portfoliocompanies these backers also fund
- Extended networkfunds that co-invest alongside them
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- What is Daily?
- Daily is a WebRTC developer platform with SDKs and APIs for real-time voice, video, and multimodal AI, focused on low-latency conversational voice and AI agents.
- What is Pipecat?
- Pipecat is Daily's open-source orchestration framework for building real-time voice and multimodal AI agents; Pipecat Cloud deploys those agents on Daily's infrastructure.
- Who is Daily for?
- Daily is built for developers adding real-time voice, video, and conversational AI to their applications.
- When was Daily founded?
- It was founded in 2016 by Kwindla Hultman Kramer and Nina Kuruvilla and was part of YC's Winter 2016 batch, later raising a $15M Series A and $40M Series B led by Renegade Partners.
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