LiveKit
Open-source framework and cloud platform for building, testing, deploying and scaling realtime voice, video and physical AI agents.
LiveKit provides real-time media infrastructure and an Agents framework/Agent Builder for STT-LLM-TTS pipelines, realtime audio/video rooms and programmable voice AI participants. Its platform is infrastructure rather than a packaged CX agent application.
Positioning
Realtime infrastructure for voice and physical AI agents
Key facts
- HQ location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2021
- Employee range
- 51-200 (51-200)
- Funding stage
- Series C Plus
- Company type
- Private (Private / open-source commercial)
- Pricing model
- Freemium Licensing Open Source Usage Based (Open-source framework plus usage-based cloud / enterprise plans; free agent-session minutes on published pricing)
- Last updated
- Jun 21, 2026
Revenue estimate
Unknown / not publicly disclosed
Valuation estimate
$1B reported Series C valuation (Jan 2026)
Investments
$100M Series C announced Jan 2026; prior funding not fully reconciled in public sources
Target customers
Developers, AI product teams, voice AI builders, robotics teams and real-time app builders
Key competitors
Daily, Agora, Twilio, Deepgram, Vapi, Cartesia, ElevenLabs
Known customers
OpenAI, Skydio, xAI, Headspace, Salesforce
Classification (raw research text)
- Core focus
- Realtime AI agent infrastructure
- Core industry
- Voice AI Infrastructure
- Core category
- Voice/video agent platform
Shown verbatim from the research spreadsheet — deriving structured segment/industry tags from this text is a future phase.
Attribute breakdown
- AI Workflows Secondary feature
- AI Automation / Business Process Automation Secondary feature
- Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Primary focus
- Multi-agent Orchestration / Runtime Secondary feature
- System / API Integration Primary focus
- Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Secondary feature
- Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Primary focus
- AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Secondary feature
- AI Observability / Monitoring Secondary feature
- AI Security / Guardrails Secondary feature
- Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Secondary feature
- Call Transcription / Speech-to-Text Data Capture Secondary feature
- Conversation Intelligence / Speech Analytics Secondary feature
- Voice AI Agents Primary focus
- Voice Infrastructure / STT / TTS Primary focus
- AI for Customer Experience / Support Automation Secondary feature
- Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Primary focus
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- AI Workflows Secondary feature
- AI Automation / Business Process Automation Secondary feature
- AI Fine-tuning / Custom Model Training Not emphasized
- Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Primary focus
- Multi-agent Orchestration / Runtime Secondary feature
- System / API Integration Primary focus
- Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Secondary feature
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation Not emphasized
- Graph RAG / Knowledge Graph Retrieval Not emphasized
- Enterprise Search / Knowledge Management Not emphasized
- AI / LLM Data Pipeline Not emphasized
- Document AI / Document Processing Not emphasized
- Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Primary focus
- Traditional Machine Learning Not emphasized
- AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Secondary feature
- AI Observability / Monitoring Secondary feature
- AI Security / Guardrails Secondary feature
- Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Secondary feature
- AI Governance / Policy Management Not emphasized
- AI Risk / Compliance Not emphasized
- AI Asset Inventory / Model Registry Not emphasized
- Human-in-the-Loop Review / Feedback Not emphasized
- Call Transcription / Speech-to-Text Data Capture Secondary feature
- Conversation Intelligence / Speech Analytics Secondary feature
- Text Chatbots / Conversational Assistants Not emphasized
- Voice AI Agents Primary focus
- Voice Infrastructure / STT / TTS Primary focus
- AI for Customer Experience / Support Automation Secondary feature
- Sales / Revenue Intelligence Not emphasized
- Analytics / BI / Decision Intelligence Not emphasized
- Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Primary focus
- Vertical-Specific AI Not emphasized