Company record
LiveKit
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
LiveKit offers an open-source framework and developer cloud for building, deploying and scaling voice, video and physical AI agents. livekit.com
Funding
- $100M Series C, announced January 22, 2026. Led by Index Ventures. Sources: livekit.com, techcrunch.com.
Whether AI names LiveKit
- On the Voice AI map: named or cited in 8 of 54 answers to Presspool's Voice AI questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 2 of 8, Claude 1 of 8, Perplexity 3 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Copilot 1 of 8, Google AI Mode 1 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 6). See the map. Of the 29 companies on the map, LiveKit ranked joint 12th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on Voice AI questions: ElevenLabs (39 of 54), Deepgram (28 of 54), Retell AI (27 of 54), Vapi (24 of 54) and PolyAI (23 of 54). Most often named in the same answers: ElevenLabs (8), PolyAI (8), Retell AI (8), Vapi (8), Bland (7).
Week by week
Answers that named or cited LiveKit in each weekly sample of Presspool's Voice AI questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | Voice AI |
|---|---|
| September 28, 2026 | 5 of 53 |
| October 5, 2026 | 7 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 12 of 56 |
| October 19, 2026 | 9 of 55 |
| October 26, 2026 | 7 of 56 |
| November 2, 2026 | 8 of 54 |
Sources AI cites when it names LiveKit
Presspool asked its 8 Voice AI questions on November 2, 2026; 8 of the 54 answers named or cited LiveKit, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Mode. The sites those 8 answers cited most:
- cartesia.ai: 6 of 8 answers
- retellai.com: 4 of 8 answers
- assemblyai.com: 3 of 8 answers
- opencurious.com: 3 of 8 answers
- parloa.com: 3 of 8 answers
- analyticsinsight.net: 2 of 8 answers
- bland.ai: 2 of 8 answers
- brilo.ai: 2 of 8 answers
- deepgram.com: 2 of 8 answers
- elevenlabs.io: 2 of 8 answers
Related records
Also on the Voice AI map: AssemblyAI, Assort Health, Bland, Cartesia, Deepdub, Deepgram, Deepslate, ElevenLabs, Fish Audio, Goodcall, Gradium, Inworld AI and 16 more on the map.
Index Ventures, which led this round, also led Flapping Airplanes ($1 billion Series A, October 21, 2026), Hone ($60 million Seed, October 8, 2026), Fireworks AI ($1.505 billion Series D, July 16, 2026), Crosby ($60M Series B, March 31, 2026), Wordsmith ($25 million Series A, June 3, 2025) and Tessl ($100M Series A, November 14, 2024). 3 more of its rounds are on its page.