Founder of a listed tool

Nina Kuruvilla

Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Co-founder, Daily

Nina Kuruvilla co-founded Daily, a real-time voice, video and AI platform for developers that went through Y Combinator in 2016. Her work there centres on supporting customers as they build video experiences. She wrote Daily's Series A announcement in 2021 and co-wrote its January 2026 post on Pipecat Cloud becoming generally available.

What Nina builds

Pipecat B · 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.
Co-founder, Daily, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Pipecat PhoneLLM C · 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).
Co-founder, Daily, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it

Works with

Aleix Conchillo Flaqué Engineer at Daily; Pipecat builder
Kwindla Hultman Kramer Co-founder and CEO, Daily
Mark Backman Leads product at Daily

Backed by

Y Combinator Freestyle Moxxie Ventures Slack SV Angel April Underwood Sarah Imbach Ellen Levy Elizabeth Weil Haystack TenOneTen Ventures Root Ventures Lachy Groom Tiger Global Worklife Ventures Renegade Partners Heritage Group Cendana Capital Sean Rose Todd & Rahul's Angel Fund David Eckstein Aston Motes Ground Up Ventures Offline Ventures Basement Fund Compound Salesforce Scribble Ventures Albert Ni Alex Gerko Bayan Tawfiq Christian Reiber Des Traynor Ed Lando Eric Cohen Gokul Rajaram Jeff Seibert Kevin Weil Ludwig Pettersson Michael Stoppelman Nat Friedman Pete Huitsing Roger Dickey Rahul Vohra Scott Belsky Todd Goldberg Wayne Chang

Questions

Who is Nina Kuruvilla?

What does Daily make?

Anchor 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.

Who has invested in Daily?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator, Freestyle, Moxxie Ventures, Slack, SV Angel, April Underwood, Sarah Imbach, Ellen Levy, Elizabeth Weil, Haystack, TenOneTen Ventures, Root Ventures, Lachy Groom, Tiger Global, Worklife Ventures, Renegade Partners, Heritage Group, Cendana Capital, Sean Rose, Todd & Rahul's Angel Fund, David Eckstein, Aston Motes, Ground Up Ventures, Offline Ventures, Basement Fund, Compound, Salesforce, Scribble Ventures, Albert Ni, Alex Gerko, Bayan Tawfiq, Christian Reiber, Des Traynor, Ed Lando, Eric Cohen, Gokul Rajaram, Jeff Seibert, Kevin Weil, Ludwig Pettersson, Michael Stoppelman, Nat Friedman, Pete Huitsing, Roger Dickey, Rahul Vohra, Scott Belsky, Todd Goldberg and Wayne Chang.

How are Nina's tools graded?

Pipecat 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.

Sources (10)

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