# Kwindla Hultman Kramer

> Kwindla Hultman Kramer is co-founder and CEO of Daily.co, a developer platform providing real-time voice, video, and AI infrastructure. He is also the creator of Pipecat, the most widely used open-source framework for building voice AI agents. A Harvard and MIT Media Lab alumnus, Kwindla has spent his career at the intersection of real-time communication and developer infrastructure—from scaling AllAfrica.com as CTO to building spatial computing interfaces at Oblong Industries to raising $62M+ for Daily and releasing Pipecat to the open-source community.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Daily.co
- **Organizations:** Daily.co, Pipecat AI, AllAfrica.com, Oblong Industries, Y Combinator (W16)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MS, MIT Media Lab, AB, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Daily.co, raising $62.2M across 5 funding rounds, Created Pipecat, the most widely used open-source framework for voice AI agents, Scaled Oblong Industries from 2 to 80 employees as CEO

## Career timeline

- **1999** — Co-founded AllAfrica.com as CTO; built large-scale content aggregation serving millions of monthly visitors
- **2005** — Moved to Los Angeles; helped found Oblong Industries as CEO
- **2005-2013** — Scaled Oblong Industries from 2 to 80 employees; developed g-speak Spatial Operating Environment
- **2016** — Co-founded Daily.co; went through Y Combinator W16
- **2021** — Raised $40M Series B for Daily.co (total $62.2M raised)
- **2024** — Released Pipecat open-source framework for voice AI agents; Daily.co reached $6M ARR and 1K+ customers
- **2025** — Spoke at AI Engineer World's Fair and VapiCon on building production-grade voice AI systems

## Achievements

- Co-founded Daily.co, raising $62.2M across 5 funding rounds
- Created Pipecat, the most widely used open-source framework for voice AI agents
- Scaled Oblong Industries from 2 to 80 employees as CEO
- Built AllAfrica.com infrastructure handling thousands of stories per day and millions of monthly visitors as CTO
- Grew Daily.co to $6M ARR and 1K+ customers with global user base
- Regular speaker at major AI and developer conferences including AI Engineer World's Fair and VapiCon
- Author of influential articles on WebRTC, startups, and voice AI on Medium and Y Combinator blog
- Mentor for startups through Mucker Capital

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Speaking at VapiCon 2025 on foundations of production-ready voice AI systems
- **2025-04** — Presenting 'How to build the world's fastest voice bot' at AI Engineer World's Fair
- **2024-12** — Pipecat open-source framework continues to grow as most widely used voice AI agent framework
- **2024-06** — Daily.co reaches $6M ARR and 1,000+ customers globally

## Links

- Website: https://daily.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwkramer
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/kwindla
- GitHub: https://github.com/kwindla
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kwindla/

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Last updated: 2026-05-25