Founder of a listed tool
Shivakumar Ganesan
Co-founder, CEO and CTO, named behind the Exotel Voice API + MCP listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Shivakumar builds
Exotel Voice API + MCP E · Phone calling & voice transport
Indian cloud telephony API for click-to-call, call flows, virtual numbers (ExoPhones), SIP trunking and AgentStream, which streams call audio to your bot over WebSocket in both directions.
Co-founder, CEO and CTO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Sachin Bhatia Co-founder and CGO
- Sanjeeth R. Chief Product Officer
Backed by
A91 Partners Blume Ventures Binny Bansal Vikas Choudhury Deep Kalra Rohan Angrish IIFL AMC Sistema Asia Fund CX Partners Singularity Growth Opportunities Fund Arun Sarin Steadview Capital
Questions
Who is Shivakumar Ganesan?
Shivakumar Ganesan (Shivku) co-founded Exotel in July 2011 and is its CEO and CTO. Exotel grew out of an automated cloud telephony tool he built for his previous venture, Roopit, a consumer-to-consumer marketplace, and brought voice APIs to the Indian market before building contact centre and conversational AI products.
What does Exotel make?
Anchor Terminal lists Exotel Voice API + MCP from Exotel. Indian cloud telephony API for click-to-call, call flows, virtual numbers (ExoPhones), SIP trunking and AgentStream, which streams call audio to your bot over WebSocket in both directions.
Who has invested in Exotel?
The sources our research read name A91 Partners, Blume Ventures, Binny Bansal, Vikas Choudhury, Deep Kalra, Rohan Angrish, IIFL AMC, Sistema Asia Fund, CX Partners, Singularity Growth Opportunities Fund, Arun Sarin and Steadview Capital.
How are Shivakumar's tools graded?
Exotel Voice API + MCP is graded E, 39.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (11)
- https://exotel.com/about-us/leadership/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivku/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhatiasachin
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjeeth-r/
- https://exotel.com/
- https://exotel.com
- https://exotel.com/about-us/
- https://exotel.com/contact/
- https://github.com/exotel/ExotelMCP
- https://support.exotel.com/support/home
- https://exotel.com/products/exotel-model-context-protocol/
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