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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Daily.\n\nNina 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.\n\n## What Nina 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. Co-founder, Daily, researched 2026-10-28.\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). Co-founder, Daily, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Aleix Conchillo Flaqué](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aleix-conchillo-flaque/), Engineer at Daily; Pipecat builder\n- [Kwindla Hultman Kramer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kwindla-hultman-kramer/), Co-founder and CEO, Daily\n- [Mark Backman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mark-backman/), Leads product at Daily\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Freestyle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/freestyle/)\n- [Moxxie Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/moxxie-ventures/)\n- [Slack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/slack/)\n- [SV Angel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sv-angel/)\n- [April Underwood](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/april-underwood/)\n- [Sarah Imbach](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sarah-imbach/)\n- [Ellen Levy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ellen-levy/)\n- [Elizabeth Weil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elizabeth-weil/)\n- [Haystack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/haystack/)\n- [TenOneTen Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tenoneten-ventures/)\n- [Root Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/root-ventures/)\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- [Renegade Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/renegade-partners/)\n- [Heritage Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/heritage-group/)\n- [Cendana Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cendana-capital/)\n- [Sean Rose](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sean-rose/)\n- [Todd \u0026 Rahul's Angel Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/todd-rahul-s-angel-fund/)\n- [David Eckstein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/david-eckstein/)\n- [Aston Motes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aston-motes/)\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- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)\n- [Scribble Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scribble-ventures/)\n- [Albert Ni](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/albert-ni/)\n- [Alex Gerko](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alex-gerko/)\n- [Bayan Tawfiq](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bayan-tawfiq/)\n- [Christian Reiber](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/christian-reiber/)\n- [Des Traynor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/des-traynor/)\n- [Ed Lando](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ed-lando/)\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- [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 Nina Kuruvilla?\n\nNina 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.\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, 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 \u0026 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.\n\n### How are Nina'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/blog/author/kwindla-hultman-kramer/\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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