Founder · Smallest.ai

Akshat Mandloi

Co-founder & CTO of Smallest.ai, a voice ai infrastructure company based in San Francisco.

Co-founder · CTOSan FranciscoVoice AI Infrastructure
Raised to date
$21M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
Series A
$13M · 2026-07-30
Team
51–200

About

Akshat Mandloi is Co-founder & CTO of Smallest.ai, a voice ai infrastructure company based in San Francisco. Smallest.ai's most recent disclosed round was a funding round of $8M in 2025-10.

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Company

Smallest.ai
Voice AI Infrastructure · San Francisco · 51–200 people · Active

Smallest.ai, incorporated as Smallest Inc., builds real-time voice AI infrastructure for enterprises, including speech recognition, speech generation and speech-to-speech models. Its Voice 4.0 platform is built on an architecture the company calls Hydra, which processes listening, reasoning and speech generation in parallel rather than in sequence.

Funding
2026-07-30Series A$13MSeligman Ventures, Sierra Ventures, 3one4 Capital, Better Capital, Upsparks Capital, Schema Ventures, Tiny VC, DeVC, Mission Street Capital
2025-10Seed$8MSierra Ventures, 3one4 Capital
Company profile →2 rounds on record

Journey with Smallest.ai

2 milestones
  1. May 2026Milestone

    Partners with Tenstorrent to run its Lightning V2 model on P100 accelerators, with the companies claiming 550 simultaneous voice calls on roughly $27,000 of hardware against about $100,000 of comparable Nvidia GPUs.

  2. 30 Jul 2026Milestone

    Launches Voice 4.0 alongside its Series A, built on an asynchronous speech-to-speech architecture called Hydra that processes listening, reasoning and speech generation in parallel.

Also building Smallest.ai

SKSudarshan KamathCo-founder · CEO→

Coverage

1 story
Funding · 4 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Smallest.ai Raises $13 Million Series A Led by Seligman Ventures to Scale Real-Time Voice AI