LiveKit - About the company
LiveKit is a series C company based in Saratoga (United States), founded in 2021 by David Zhao and Russell D Sa. It operates as a Developer of open-source platform for building and scaling realtime voice agents. LiveKit has raised $174M in funding from Index Ventures and Altimeter Capital, with a current valuation of $*****. The company has 1651 active competitors, including 206 funded and 180 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Zoom, Skype and Dialpad.
Company Details
Developer of open-source platform for building and scaling realtime voice agents. The platform provides APIs and tools for creating applications with voice and video capabilities. It offers infrastructure for managing concurrent calls, turn detection, and integration with telephony systems. The platform supports self-hosting or deployment to a cloud environment.
- Website
- livekit.io
- Social
- Email ID
- *****@livekit.io
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2021
Location
Saratoga, United States
Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$174M in 4 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$***** as on Jan 22, 2026
Investors
Ranked
24th among 1651 active competitors
Employee Count
126 as on Jun 30, 2026
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LiveKit's funding and investors
LiveKit has raised a total funding of $174M over 4 rounds. Its first funding round was on Sep 06, 2022. Its latest funding round was a Series C round on Jan 22, 2026 for $*****. 5 investors participated in its latest round. LiveKit has 8 institutional investors and 3 angel investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of LiveKit:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Jan 22, 2026 | 4384839 | Series C | 9021170 | 4237054 | 3161323 | 8418725 |
Apr 11, 2025 | 5020321 | Series B | 8516406 | 5786016 | 4354150 | |
Mar 01, 2024 | 8338630 | Series A | 6563011 | 4101845 |
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LiveKit's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileHere are the details of LiveKit's key team members:
- David Zhao: Co-Founder & CTO of LiveKit.
- Russell D Sa: Co-Founder & CEO of LiveKit. Contact Info: 1 email address
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LiveKit's employee count trend
LiveKit has 126 employees as of Jun 26. Here is LiveKit's employee count trend over the years:
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LiveKit's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of LiveKit include Zoom, Skype and Dialpad. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of LiveKit, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Zoom 2011, San Jose (United States), Public | Cloud-based video conferencing software | $157M | 81/100 | |
2nd | Skype 2002, Luxembourg, Acquired | VoIP Software application | $26.8M | 81/100 | |
3rd |  Dialpad 2011, San Ramon (United States), Series F | Provider of AI-powered contact center and unified communications platform solutions | $476M | 79/100 | |
4th | Software based Enterprise Unified Communications | - | 76/100 | ||
5th | Otter.ai 2016, Los Altos (United States), Series B | Developer of an AI meeting agent providing transcription and summarization | $70M | 75/100 | |
6th |  Vonage 2001, Holmdel (United States), Acquired | Provider of contact center business communication solutions | $645M | 74/100 | |
7th | Cloud based platform for unified communication management | $1.01M | 74/100 | ||
8th |  Loom San Francisco (United States), Acquired | Developer of software for recording and sharing screen video messages | $214M | 74/100 | |
9th | Cloud based employee communication platform provider | $102M | 74/100 | ||
10th | Panopto 2007, Seattle (United States), Series B | Cloud-based video conferencing management software provider | $48.5M | 73/100 | |
24th |  LiveKit 2021, Saratoga (United States), Series C | Developer of open-source platform for building and scaling realtime voice agents | $174M | 63/100 |
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LiveKit's Investments and acquisitions
LiveKit has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to LiveKit
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News related to LiveKit
Media has covered LiveKit for a total of 3 events in the last 1 year, 1 of them has been about company updates and 1 about people movement.
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LiveKit, provider of all-in-one voice AI platform, raises $100 millionStartup Log•Jan 23, 2026•LiveKit, Stack Overflow, xAI, Meta and 9 others
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LiveKit Raises $22M in Series A FundingFinSMEs•Jun 05, 2024•LiveKit, Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures
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OpenAI and LiveKit Collaborate to Transform Advanced Voice into an APILiveKit•Mar 10, 2024•OpenAI, LiveKit
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