Founder of a listed tool
David Zhao
Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What David builds
LiveKit Agents BB · Conversational voice agents
LiveKit Agents is LiveKit's open-source Python and Node.js framework for realtime voice and video agents that join LiveKit rooms, with STT, LLM, TTS and realtime-model plugins, turn detection, MCP tools and telephony through LiveKit SIP.
Co-founder and CTO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
LiveKit Telephony B · Phone calling & voice transport
LiveKit Telephony connects phone calls to LiveKit rooms as SIP participants. On LiveKit Cloud it covers SIP trunks to outside carriers, US inbound phone numbers, dispatch rules and transfers, managed through a Twirp API, server SDKs and the
lkCLI.Co-founder and CTO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Russ d’Sa Co-founder and CEO
Questions
Who is David Zhao?
David Zhao is co-founder and CTO of LiveKit, which he started with Russ d'Sa in 2021. Forbes reports the two met at Y Combinator in 2007, that Zhao later worked at Motorola, and that they co-founded Evie Labs, a machine learning news recommendation app sold to Medium in 2019.
What does LiveKit Incorporated make?
Anchor Terminal lists LiveKit Agents and LiveKit Telephony from LiveKit Incorporated. LiveKit Agents is LiveKit's open-source Python and Node.js framework for realtime voice and video agents that join LiveKit rooms, with STT, LLM, TTS and realtime-model plugins, turn detection, MCP tools and telephony through LiveKit SIP.
How are David's tools graded?
LiveKit Agents is graded BB, 72.5 out of 100; LiveKit Telephony is graded B, 67.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (8)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/russelldsa/
- https://livekit.com/
- https://x.com/dsa
- https://docs.livekit.io/intro/community/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidzhao/
- https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=LiveKit%20founder&spellCorrectionEnabled=false
- https://livekit.com/about
- https://livekit.com/pricing
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