Bolna Bags $6.3 Million Seed Funding Led by General Catalyst to Build India's Voice AI Platform

Bolna, voice AI agents for Indian languages, led by Prateek Sachan and Maitreya Wagh, has secured $6.3 million in a seed funding round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Y Combinator, Blume Ventures, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital, and Eight Capital, along with angels Aarthi Ramamurthy, Arpan Sheth, Sriwatsan Krishnan, Ravi Iyer, and Taro Fukuyama, among others.

Founded in 2024, Bolna is building a self-serve platform that enables enterprises to design, deploy, and monitor voice AI agents without lengthy implementation cycles or specialized AI expertise. The platform supports over 10 Indian languages and is optimized for real-world telephony conditions, including regional accents and noisy environments.

The new funding supports expansion of engineering and deployment teams, investment in proprietary vernacular voice AI systems, and strengthening of enterprise-grade infrastructure for large-scale production deployments.

Since its first commercial deployment in May 2025, Bolna has scaled from around 1,500 to over 200,000 calls per day and now serves more than 1,050 paying customers across sectors, including e-commerce, BFSI, logistics, recruitment, and education.

Customers include enterprises such as Varun Beverages and high-growth startups like Spinny and Snabbit, with usage spanning high-volume workflows and voice-centric industries such as travel and matrimonial services.

Bolna’s orchestration layer enables enterprises to run multilingual voice AI across diverse call scenarios within a single, high-volume platform, maintaining performance as usage scales. The system routes each call to the most suitable AI model rather than relying on a single provider.

Indian enterprises manage over one billion voice calls daily, many of which still depend on legacy IVR systems and human-led workflows that are costly and difficult to scale across languages.

Bolna is differentiated by its focus on India’s highly complex voice market, where multilingual and dialect-rich environments make enterprise voice AI particularly challenging. This market-first approach has enabled early revenue generation and strong product validation, earning recognition within its Y Combinator cohort.

While serving customers in more than 10 countries, the company remains centered on India as enterprises move voice AI from pilots into core operations, positioning Bolna as foundational infrastructure for managing billions of enterprise voice interactions.