# Nina Kuruvilla (slim)

> Nina Kuruvilla is co-founder of Daily. Pipecat and Pipecat PhoneLLM on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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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.

## What Nina builds

- [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.
- [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.

## Works with

- [Aleix Conchillo Flaqué](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aleix-conchillo-flaque/), Engineer at Daily; Pipecat builder
- [Kwindla Hultman Kramer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kwindla-hultman-kramer/), Co-founder and CEO, Daily
- [Mark Backman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mark-backman/), Leads product at Daily

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)
- [Freestyle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/freestyle/)
- [Moxxie Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/moxxie-ventures/)
- [Slack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/slack/)
- [SV Angel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sv-angel/)
- [April Underwood](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/april-underwood/)
- [Sarah Imbach](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sarah-imbach/)
- [Ellen Levy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ellen-levy/)
- [Elizabeth Weil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elizabeth-weil/)
- [Haystack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/haystack/)
- [TenOneTen Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tenoneten-ventures/)
- [Root Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/root-ventures/)
- [Lachy Groom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lachy-groom/)
- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)
- [Worklife Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/worklife-ventures/)
- [Renegade Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/renegade-partners/)
- [Heritage Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/heritage-group/)
- [Cendana Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cendana-capital/)
- [Sean Rose](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sean-rose/)
- [Todd & Rahul's Angel Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/todd-rahul-s-angel-fund/)
- [David Eckstein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/david-eckstein/)
- [Aston Motes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aston-motes/)
- [Ground Up Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ground-up-ventures/)
- [Offline Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/offline-ventures/)
- [Basement Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/basement-fund/)
- [Compound](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/compound/)
- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)
- [Scribble Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scribble-ventures/)
- [Albert Ni](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/albert-ni/)
- [Alex Gerko](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alex-gerko/)
- [Bayan Tawfiq](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bayan-tawfiq/)
- [Christian Reiber](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/christian-reiber/)
- [Des Traynor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/des-traynor/)
- [Ed Lando](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ed-lando/)
- [Eric Cohen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/eric-cohen/)
- [Gokul Rajaram](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gokul-rajaram/)
- [Jeff Seibert](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jeff-seibert/)
- [Kevin Weil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kevin-weil/)
- [Ludwig Pettersson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ludwig-pettersson/)
- [Michael Stoppelman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/michael-stoppelman/)
- [Nat Friedman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nat-friedman/)
- [Pete Huitsing](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pete-huitsing/)
- [Roger Dickey](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/roger-dickey/)
- [Rahul Vohra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rahul-vohra/)
- [Scott Belsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scott-belsky/)
- [Todd Goldberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/todd-goldberg/)
- [Wayne Chang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/wayne-chang/)

## Questions

### Who is Nina Kuruvilla?

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.

### What does Daily make?

Anchor Terminal lists Pipecat and Pipecat PhoneLLM from Daily.

### 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

- https://www.pipecat.ai/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwkramer
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kwkramer_mark-backman-and-aleix-conchillo-flaqu%C3%A9-do-activity-7369783084008816641-gP4C
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-backman/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/aconchillo/
- https://www.daily.co/
- https://www.daily.co/company/contact/support/
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/daily
- https://www.daily.co/blog/author/kwindla-hultman-kramer/
- https://www.daily.co/company/contact/

These 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.