Agora is a real-time engagement platform that gives developers simple APIs and SDKs to embed live voice, video, interactive streaming, chat, and conversational AI into apps and devices. Trusted by more than 1,700 organizations across social, live shopping, education, telehealth, and gaming, Agora's network reaches devices worldwide with sub-second latency. The company trades on Nasdaq under the ticker API.
Chase Kim is a startup founder who spent years deep inside Sendbird, the messaging infrastructure company powering conversations for DoorDash, Reddit, and Hinge, where he led the forward deployment team during Sendbird's critical 2024 pivot into AI agents for customer experience. In 2026, he co-founded Light Anchor (YC P26) with Sangha Park to build fully autonomous e-commerce brands run entirely by AI agents, betting that the future of consumer business is capped by compute, not headcount.