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  "markdown": "CEO at Daily; Pipecat maintainer. Founder, Daily.\n\nKwindla Hultman Kramer is co-founder and CEO of Daily, a real-time voice, video and AI platform for developers that went through Y Combinator's Winter 2016 batch. He previously worked at Oblong Industries and studied at MIT.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwkramer\n- X: https://x.com/kwindla\n\n## What Kwindla builds\n\n- [Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat.md), graded B, 69.1/100, in Conversational voice agents. Pipecat is Daily's open-source Python framework for real-time voice and multimodal agents, built as pipelines of transport, speech-to-text, LLM and text-to-speech services, with client SDKs and optional hosting on Pipecat Cloud. CEO at Daily; Pipecat maintainer, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Pipecat PhoneLLM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm.md), graded C, 59/100, in Conversational voice agents. Pipecat PhoneLLM is Daily's open-weight text model for the language step of phone voice agents, with tool calling. Alpha 2, released 15 October 2026, comes as Mini (30B, on Workers AI) and Max (120B, weights and dedicated endpoints). Founder, Daily, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Aleix Conchillo Flaqué](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aleix-conchillo-flaque/), Engineer at Daily; Pipecat builder\n- [Mark Backman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mark-backman/), VP Product at Daily\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Lachy Groom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lachy-groom/)\n- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)\n- [Worklife Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/worklife-ventures/)\n- [Freestyle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/freestyle/)\n- [Renegade Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/renegade-partners/)\n- [Root Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/root-ventures/)\n- [Slack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/slack/)\n- [Moxxie Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/moxxie-ventures/)\n- [Haystack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/haystack/)\n- [TenOneTen Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tenoneten-ventures/)\n- [Ground Up Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ground-up-ventures/)\n- [Offline Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/offline-ventures/)\n- [Basement Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/basement-fund/)\n- [Compound](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/compound/)\n- [Albert Ni](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/albert-ni/)\n- [Alex Gerko](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alex-gerko/)\n- [April Underwood](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/april-underwood/)\n- [Aston Motes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aston-motes/)\n- [Bayan Tawfiq](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bayan-tawfiq/)\n- [Christian Reiber](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/christian-reiber/)\n- [David Eckstein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/david-eckstein/)\n- [Des Traynor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/des-traynor/)\n- [Ed Lando](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ed-lando/)\n- [Elizabeth Weil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elizabeth-weil/)\n- [Ellen Levy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ellen-levy/)\n- [Eric Cohen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/eric-cohen/)\n- [Gokul Rajaram](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gokul-rajaram/)\n- [Jeff Seibert](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jeff-seibert/)\n- [Kevin Weil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kevin-weil/)\n- [Ludwig Pettersson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ludwig-pettersson/)\n- [Michael Stoppelman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/michael-stoppelman/)\n- [Nat Friedman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nat-friedman/)\n- [Pete Huitsing](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pete-huitsing/)\n- [Roger Dickey](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/roger-dickey/)\n- [Rahul Vohra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rahul-vohra/)\n- [Sarah Imbach](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sarah-imbach/)\n- [Scott Belsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scott-belsky/)\n- [Todd Goldberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/todd-goldberg/)\n- [Wayne Chang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/wayne-chang/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Kwindla Hultman Kramer?\n\nKwindla Hultman Kramer is co-founder and CEO of Daily, a real-time voice, video and AI platform for developers that went through Y Combinator's Winter 2016 batch. He previously worked at Oblong Industries and studied at MIT.\n\n### What does Daily make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Pipecat and Pipecat PhoneLLM from Daily. Pipecat is Daily's open-source Python framework for real-time voice and multimodal agents, built as pipelines of transport, speech-to-text, LLM and text-to-speech services, with client SDKs and optional hosting on Pipecat Cloud.\n\n### Who has invested in Daily?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, Lachy Groom, Tiger Global, Worklife Ventures, Freestyle, Renegade Partners, Root Ventures, Slack, Moxxie Ventures, Haystack, TenOneTen Ventures, Ground Up Ventures, Offline Ventures, Basement Fund, Compound, Albert Ni, Alex Gerko, April Underwood, Aston Motes, Bayan Tawfiq, Christian Reiber, David Eckstein, Des Traynor, Ed Lando, Elizabeth Weil, Ellen Levy, Eric Cohen, Gokul Rajaram, Jeff Seibert, Kevin Weil, Ludwig Pettersson, Michael Stoppelman, Nat Friedman, Pete Huitsing, Roger Dickey, Rahul Vohra, Sarah Imbach, Scott Belsky, Todd Goldberg and Wayne Chang.\n\n### How are Kwindla's tools graded?\n\nPipecat is graded B, 69.1 out of 100; Pipecat PhoneLLM is graded C, 59 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.pipecat.ai/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwkramer\n- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kwkramer_mark-backman-and-aleix-conchillo-flaqu%C3%A9-do-activity-7369783084008816641-gP4C\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-backman/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/aconchillo/\n- https://www.daily.co/\n- https://www.daily.co/company/contact/support/\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/daily\n- https://www.daily.co/company/contact/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. 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