Dasha is a voice AI platform that lets developers build, test, and deploy human-like conversational voice agents to automate phone-based business processes such as sales calls, customer support, and lead qualification. Founded by Vladislav Chernyshov and Ilya Stupakov, the company built its own low-latency speech recognition and text-to-speech stack, and exposes conversation design through a purpose-built scripting language (DashaScript) and a JavaScript/Node.js SDK. It positions itself as infrastructure for developers who want production-grade, real-time voice AI at scale.
Vlad Chernyshov is the co-founder and CEO of Dasha.AI, a New York conversational-voice-AI company he started in late 2016 to build machines that talk like people - with the ums, the breaths, the interruptions and all. A competitive programmer out of Novosibirsk, Russia, he landed his first paying customer (a San Francisco dental practice) the day after Y Combinator rejected him, raised a $2M seed from RTP Global in 2019, and has framed Dasha's real target not as call centers but as artificial general intelligence reached through speech.