SaaS startup Smallest.ai secures $8M in seed funding led by Sierra Ventures
Full-stack enterprise voice AI platform Smallest.ai will use the funds to fuel its global expansion across North America and India, as well as accelerate production innovation and deepen enterprise penetration.
Smallest.ai has raised $8 million in a seed funding round led by Sierra Ventures, with participation from 3one4 Capital and Better Capital.
The full-stack enterprise voice AI platform will use the fresh capital to accelerate its global expansion across North America and India, fuel product innovation, and also deepen enterprise penetration in regulated sectors such as banking, financial services, retail, healthcare, and IT.
Smallest.ai’s proprietary full-stack Voice AI combines speech recognition, natural language understanding, and speech synthesis to enable real-time, human-grade conversations.
"We invested in Smallest.ai because we believe they’re solving one of enterprise AI’s toughest problems: real-time, human-grade voice interactions at scale," said Ashish Kakran, Partner at Sierra Ventures. "Built with roots in India and a clear focus on both the US and Indian markets, the team is demonstrating how world-class innovation can come out of India and serve global customers. We’re excited to support this next chapter—enabling voice to become a first-class interface in enterprise engagement across continents.”
The company is projecting a 300% growth in the US and 150% year-on-year growth in India over the next year. According to the firm, this growth will be driven by the enterprise demand for scalable and natural Voice AI.
Smallest.ai delivers up to 80% reduction in support costs, 10x improvement in agent productivity, 24x7 availability, and savings of over $10 million annually for large organisations, according to the company.
“We’ve built Smallest.ai for scale, reliability, and trust—especially for regulated industries,” said Sudarshan Kamath, Founder and CEO, Smallest.ai. “This capital gives us the push to take that vision global with the same enterprise discipline we started with.”
Amidst the firm’s expansion plans, it has also appointed Apoorv Sood as its Global Head of Go-To-Market (GTM) to lead enterprise growth and partnerships worldwide.
Edited by Kanishk Singh