# Braden Ream

> Braden Ream is the co-founder and CEO of Voiceflow, a platform for teams building conversational AI agents. Raised in Toronto and based between Toronto and San Francisco, he previously built the campus social network Flare. Voiceflow emerged from tools his team developed for interactive children’s Alexa stories. He also writes about product development, invests in early-stage companies and has expressed a long-term interest in Canadian politics.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Voiceflow
- **Organizations:** Voiceflow, Flare, W5, TechStack TO
- **Education:** Ivey Business School at Western University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Voiceflow with Andrew Lawrence, Michael Hood and Tyler Han., Led Voiceflow through its expansion from Alexa app tooling to conversational AI agents across channels., Recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, as stated on his personal page.

## Career timeline

- **Before Voiceflow** — Built Flare, a campus social network, and worked on the ridesharing side project Yugo while at university.
- **2018** — The team developed interactive children’s audio stories and the internal visual tools that became Voiceflow; Ream participated in NEXT 36.
- **2019** — Voiceflow publicly launched as a platform for building voice apps; in April it announced a $3 million seed investment led by True Ventures and $3.5 million raised over the preceding five months.
- **2021** — Voiceflow announced a $20 million financing round led by Felicis Ventures.
- **2023** — Voiceflow announced $15 million in funding led by OpenView and reported more than 130,000 global users.
- **2026** — Published writing on Voiceflow Core, reliable agent architecture and gradual AI customer-service deployment.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Voiceflow with Andrew Lawrence, Michael Hood and Tyler Han.
- Led Voiceflow through its expansion from Alexa app tooling to conversational AI agents across channels.
- Recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, as stated on his personal page.
- Voiceflow reported more than 130,000 global users in its August 2023 financing announcement.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Published “Pick the smaller number, then earn the bigger one,” advocating narrow initial AI customer-service deployments and expansion based on real conversations.
- **2026-08** — Published “The path of technology predicts the future of customer experience,” considering how automation changes where people create value.
- **2026-07** — Published “Trust is an architecture,” arguing for deterministic workflows where business rules have one correct outcome.
- **2026-07** — Introduced Voiceflow Core in a post describing the company’s tests on its own support agent.

## Links

- Website: https://bradenream.notion.site/Hi-I-m-Braden-fbe6f9f221b64dfdb386ac12ee39a1e4
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/braden-ream
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ReamBraden

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Last updated: 2026-10-16