Founder of a listed tool
Russ d’Sa
Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Russ 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 CEO, 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 CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- David Zhao Co-founder and CTO
Backed by
Altimeter Capital Redpoint Ventures Index Ventures Salesforce Hanabi Capital Jeff Dean Elad Gil Aravind Srinivas Amjad Masad Guillermo Rauch Logan Kilpatrick Mati Staniszewski Erik Bernhardsson Rohan Anil Mckay Wrigley Demi Guo Matt Shumer Garrett Camp Ev Williams Justin Kan
Questions
Who is Russ d’Sa?
Russ d'Sa is co-founder and CEO of LiveKit, an open-source framework and cloud platform for voice, video and physical AI agents founded in 2021. Forbes reports he met co-founder David Zhao at Y Combinator in 2007, later worked at Twitter, and with Zhao built Evie Labs, a 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.
Who has invested in LiveKit Incorporated?
The sources our research read name Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Index Ventures, Salesforce, Hanabi Capital, Jeff Dean, Elad Gil, Aravind Srinivas, Amjad Masad, Guillermo Rauch, Logan Kilpatrick, Mati Staniszewski, Erik Bernhardsson, Rohan Anil, Mckay Wrigley, Demi Guo, Matt Shumer, Garrett Camp, Ev Williams and Justin Kan.
How are Russ'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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