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Y Combinator-backed Indian voice AI firm Bolna nets $6.3m round

• ByStartupStory     |    January 22, 2026

Bolna Nets $6.3M Round Backed by Y Combinator

Bolna, the Y Combinator-backed Indian voice AI startup building multilingual conversational agents for enterprises, has raised $6.3 million to dominate contact centers across Hindi, Tamil, and Tier-2 markets.

Voice AI Cracks India’s 500M Call Volume

Founded by ex-AWS engineers, Bolna deploys low-latency voicebots handling accents from Kerala fishermen to UP truckers, achieving 95% resolution rates versus human agents’ 70% at 80% lower costs. Their platform powers Jio’s 24/7 billing support and Swiggy’s order amends, processing 10 million minutes monthly through real-time code-switching between Hinglish queries and regional dialects.

YC Capital Fuels Enterprise Scale

Proceeds accelerate banking and healthcare verticals, doubling engineering to embed emotion detection for churn prediction and voice biometrics slashing fraud 40%. The round proves voice AI unlocks India’s $15 billion BPO shift – when bots resolve 1 billion customer calls annually, $6.3 million builds the acoustic moat powering conversational commerce from Mumbai call centers to Main Street merchants.

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