{ "data": null, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shivakumar-ganesan/", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shivakumar-ganesan/index.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shivakumar-ganesan/index.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shivakumar-ganesan/index.min.md" }, "markdown": "Co-founder, CEO and CTO.\n\nShivakumar 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.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivku/\n\n## What Shivakumar builds\n\n- [Exotel Voice API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/exotel-voice.md), graded E, 39.5/100, in Phone calling \u0026 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 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Sachin Bhatia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sachin-bhatia/), Co-founder and CGO\n- [Sanjeeth R.](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sanjeeth-r/), Chief Product Officer\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [A91 Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/a91-partners/)\n- [Blume Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blume-ventures/)\n- [Binny Bansal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/binny-bansal/)\n- [Vikas Choudhury](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/vikas-choudhury/)\n- [Deep Kalra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/deep-kalra/)\n- [Rohan Angrish](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rohan-angrish/)\n- [IIFL AMC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/iifl-amc/)\n- [Sistema Asia Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sistema-asia-fund/)\n- [CX Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cx-partners/)\n- [Singularity Growth Opportunities Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/singularity-growth-opportunities-fund/)\n- [Arun Sarin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/arun-sarin/)\n- [Steadview Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/steadview-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Shivakumar Ganesan?\n\nShivakumar 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.\n\n### What does Exotel make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### Who has invested in Exotel?\n\nThe 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.\n\n### How are Shivakumar's tools graded?\n\nExotel Voice API + MCP is graded E, 39.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://exotel.com/about-us/leadership/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivku/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhatiasachin\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjeeth-r/\n- https://exotel.com/\n- https://exotel.com\n- https://exotel.com/about-us/\n- https://exotel.com/contact/\n- https://github.com/exotel/ExotelMCP\n- https://support.exotel.com/support/home\n- https://exotel.com/products/exotel-model-context-protocol/\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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