Bolna, a Bengaluru, India–based AI startup that provides voice orchestration platform, has raised $6.3 million in Seed funding.
Investors
The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Y Combinator, Blume Ventures, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital, Eight Capital, and multiple angel investors.
General Catalyst is a global investment and transformation firm that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs to drive resilience and applied AI. The firm supports founders with long-term vision who challenge the status quo, partnering with them from seed stage through growth and beyond. With offices in San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Berlin, Bangalore, and London, General Catalyst has backed the growth of more than 800 businesses worldwide.
Bolna Use of Funds
The company will use the funds to expand engineering and deployment teams, invest in proprietary AI and machine learning for vernacular voice systems, and strengthen enterprise-grade infrastructure for large-scale deployments.
About Bolna
Founded in 2024 by Maitreya Wagh and Prateek Sachan, Bolna is a voice AI platform that enables enterprises to build, test, deploy, and monitor human-like, multilingual AI agents at scale. The platform supports more than 10 Indian vernacular languages and is optimized for real-world telephony environments, including noisy conditions and diverse regional accents. Bolna offers a self-serve system with an orchestration layer that allows businesses to manage multiple languages and call scenarios within a single platform. Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Bolna serves over 1,050 paying customers across sectors, like e-commerce, BFSI, logistics, recruitment, and education, with India as its primary market.
Funding Details
Company: Whismurwave Inc. (Bolna)
Amount Raised: $6.3 million
Round: Seed
Funding Date: January 2026
Lead Investor: General Catalyst
Additional Investors: Y Combinator, Blume Ventures, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital, Eight Capital, Aarthi Ramamurthy, Arpan Sheth, Sriwatsan Krishnan, Ravi Iyer, Taro Fukuyama, and others
Company Website: https://www.bolna.ai/
Software Category: Voice AI / Conversational AI
Source: https://www.bolna.ai/newsroom/bolna-bags-63-million-seed-funding-led-by-general-catalyst-to-build-indias-voice-ai-platform