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  "markdown": "Co-founder; CTO under former Elto branding.\n\nVignesh Varadarajan is a co-founder of Vogent, a platform for building voice AI agents from Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch. He studied computer science at Caltech and worked on software and machine learning at Apple and on software at IBM.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vignesh-varadarajan-22469937/\n\n## What Vignesh builds\n\n- [Vogent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vogent.md), graded D, 47.3/100, in Conversational voice agents. Phone voice-agent platform with its own conversational LLM, voices and IVR-navigation models alongside GPT. Co-founder; CTO under former Elto branding, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jagath Vytheeswaran](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jagath-vytheeswaran/), Co-founder and CEO (public profile)\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Vignesh Varadarajan?\n\nVignesh Varadarajan is a co-founder of Vogent, a platform for building voice AI agents from Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch. He studied computer science at Caltech and worked on software and machine learning at Apple and on software at IBM.\n\n### What does Vogent make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Vogent API from Vogent. Phone voice-agent platform with its own conversational LLM, voices and IVR-navigation models alongside GPT.\n\n### Who has invested in Vogent?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator.\n\n### How are Vignesh's tools graded?\n\nVogent API is graded D, 47.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/539546-jagath-vytheeswaran\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vogent\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagathv\n- https://x.com/jagath_vyth\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/434104-vignesh-varadarajan\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vignesh-varadarajan-22469937/\n- https://www.vogent.ai/\n- https://www.vogent.ai\n- https://x.com/vogentai\n- https://docs.vogent.ai/\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. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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