LiveKit
Research Team Data
Published
Realtime infrastructure for voice and physical AI agents
Company profile
Overview
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.
At a glance
Key facts
- HQ location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2021
- Employee range
- 51-200
- Funding stage
- Series C Plus
- Company type
- PrivatePrivate / open-source commercial
- Last updated
- Pricing model
- FreemiumLicensing Open SourceUsage BasedOpen-source framework plus usage-based cloud / enterprise plans; free agent-session minutes on published pricing
Business context
Financials
- 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
Market context
Relationships
- 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
Source context
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 industry tags from this text is a future phase.
Market taxonomy
Segments, Industries & Certifications
Segments
AI WorkflowsAI AgentsAI Developer ToolsLLM DeploymentAI Quality & ObservabilityAI Governance & RiskCall AnalysisVoice AI AgentsSTT/TTS Infrastructure