{"id":14814,"date":"2026-01-22T23:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=14814"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:28:33","slug":"voice-ai-engine-and-openai-partner-livekit-hits-1b-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=14814","title":{"rendered":"Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LiveKit, a developer of infrastructure software for real-time AI voice and video applications, has <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.livekit.io\/livekit-series-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> the raise of $100 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The round, which comes 10 months after LiveKit\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/10\/livekits-tools-help-power-real-time-communications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previous fundraise<\/a>, was led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors, including Altimeter Capital Management, Hanabi Capital, and Redpoint Ventures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LiveKit powers OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT voice mode. The startup\u2019s other customers include xAI, Salesforce, Tesla, as well as 911 emergency service operators and mental health providers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company was founded in 2021 by Russ d\u2019Sa and David Zhao as an open source software project for building apps that can transmit real-time audio and video without interruptions, in an era when the whole world was meeting on Zoom during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although LiveKit began as a free developer tool, the business took off after the founders realized big companies wanted a managed cloud version and began providing those services to enterprises amid the voice AI boom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/22\/voice-ai-engine-and-openai-partner-livekit-hits-1b-valuation\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LiveKit, a developer of infras&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[329,10043,10044,4835],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}