# Nina Kuruvilla

> Nina Kuruvilla is co-founder of Daily.co, a San Francisco-based enterprise WebRTC platform that powers real-time voice and video for thousands of developers and enterprises. After co-founding Daily in 2016 through Y Combinator, she guided the company through 30x revenue growth during the pandemic and championed the open-sourcing of Pipecat - a vendor-neutral Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal AI agents now used by NVIDIA, AWS, and thousands of startups worldwide. Her strategic bet: the infrastructure built for human-to-human video calls turns out to be exactly what voice AI agents need.

- **Role:** Cofounder at Daily.co
- **Organizations:** Daily.co, Y Combinator
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Daily.co, which raised over $66 million in total funding, Led company through 30x revenue growth and 20x paying customer growth during 2020 pandemic, Championed open-sourcing Pipecat framework, adopted by NVIDIA, AWS, and thousands of startups and enterprises worldwide

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Co-founded Daily.co (originally Pluot Communications) with Kwindla Hultman Kramer and Doug Brunton; went through Y Combinator
- **2016** — Raised $2.5 million initial funding for Daily.co
- **2020** — Raised $4.6 million seed funding; company experienced 30x revenue growth and 20x customer growth during pandemic
- **2021-03** — Announced $15 million Series A led by Lachy Groom, bringing total funding to $22 million
- **2021-11** — Completed $40 million Series B
- **2023** — Championed open-sourcing Pipecat, a vendor-neutral Python framework for real-time voice and multimodal AI
- **2024** — Daily raised $62.2 million round led by Renegade Partners; Pipecat adopted by NVIDIA, AWS, and thousands of enterprises
- **2026-01** — Co-authored announcement of Pipecat Cloud achieving general availability

## Achievements

- Co-founded Daily.co, which raised over $66 million in total funding
- Led company through 30x revenue growth and 20x paying customer growth during 2020 pandemic
- Championed open-sourcing Pipecat framework, adopted by NVIDIA, AWS, and thousands of startups and enterprises worldwide
- Built infrastructure capable of supporting 15,000-person video calls vs. 50-person industry average
- Grew developer hackathons from 40 to 564 registrations, building a vibrant open-source community
- Guided Daily's pivot from human-to-human video to AI voice infrastructure for LLM agents
- Built enterprise-grade platform with HIPAA compliance, SOC 2 Type 1, and end-to-end encryption

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Co-authored announcement of Pipecat Cloud achieving general availability, marking a major milestone for Daily's AI voice infrastructure platform
- **2025-06** — Featured on Cloudflare TV 'Beyond the Video Call: The Future of AI Voice' discussing Daily's evolution from human video to AI voice applications
- **2024** — Daily raised $62.2 million in new funding led by Renegade Partners; Pipecat framework now used by thousands including NVIDIA and AWS

## Links

- Website: https://daily.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-kuruvilla/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ninacali4
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvR52YJsp3QLgcC91r9cbZw
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pluotco

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Last updated: 2026-05-24