Bolna raises $6.3M seed to scale India-focused voice orchestration platform

Bolna said it has raised a $6.3 million seed round led by General Catalyst to expand its India-focused voice orchestration platform. The round included participation from Y Combinator, Blume Ventures, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital, Eight Capital and several individual investors such as Aarthi Ramamurthy, Arpan Sheth, Sriwatsan Krishnan, Ravi Iyer and Taro Fukuyama.

The startup builds an orchestration layer that connects and manages different AI voice technologies, adding features tailored for India such as noise cancellation, Truecaller caller ID verification, mixed-language handling, speaking numbers in English regardless of the core language, and keypad input for long responses.

Bolna says its platform lets users build voice agents by describing them, and that 75% of its revenue comes from self-serve customers. The company also emphasises that, as an orchestration layer, it does not depend on a single model and enables customers to switch models as needed.

Founders Maitreya Wagh and Prateek Sachan said Y Combinator rejected Bolna five times before accepting it into the fall 2025 batch, with YC initially sceptical that Indian enterprises would pay for such products. At the time of acceptance, Bolna was reporting more than $25,000 in monthly revenue from $100 pilots; it now prices those pilots at $500.

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Tech, Bolna, Voice Orchestration, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Maitreya Wagh