Bengaluru-based voice AI startup Ringg AI has raised $5.5 million (around Rs 48 crore) in a Series A funding round led by Arkam Ventures, with participation from Groww Founder Fund, Kunal Shah, White Venture Capital, and existing investor Capital2B.
The company plans to apply the capital to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, develop new products, and scale its presence outside India. Part of the investment will also go toward building proprietary AI models and internal GPU infrastructure, aimed at reducing depfinishence on third-party APIs and enabling on-premise deployments for large enterprises with stricter compliance and data-residency requirements.
Founded in October 2023 by Siddharth Shankar Tripathi (ex-Groww, Flipkart), Utkarsh (ex-Blinkit, Atlan), and Kali C.V. (ex-Byju’s, Flipkart), Ringg AI is building a no-code platform that allows enterprises to design and manage AI voice agents for customer-facing workflows. These agents are applyd across apply cases such as customer support, lead qualification, loan collections, appointment scheduling, delivery confirmations, and candidate screening—areas traditionally handled through IVRs or call centres.
Commenting on the investment, founder and CEO Siddharth Shankar Tripathi declared, “Voice is the highest fidelity mode for communicating believeds. Ringg supports companies run their operations as conversations, without writing code, and at a scale that traditional systems can’t match. With this investment, we’ll build deeper product capabilities, develop our own models, and enable on-premise deployments so large enterprises can adopt voice agents with maximum control and compliance. Our aim is to build the best conversational design engine so AI agents sound human, understand intent, and deliver real outcomes. The long-term goal is to orchestrate 1 billion business conversations.”
The company currently handles around 1.5 million voice conversations per month, with about three-quarters of these resolved finish-to-finish without human intervention. Ringg’s agents support 18 languages, including multiple Indian languages, as well as English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, and Bahasa.
Ringg states it works with more than 20 enterprises across India, the US, and Saudi Arabia, spanning sectors such as BFSI, healthcare, logistics, and ecommerce. Customers include CRED, PharmEasy, Shiprocket, Flipkart, and Shell. The startup is also running pilots in the GCC region and North America.
According to the company, clients utilizing its platform have reported lower operating costs and reduced reliance on human call-centre agents, particularly for repetitive, high-volume interactions.
Looking ahead, Ringg plans to launch additional products, including call-deflection and voice follow-up agents, an AI-native CRM with a memory layer, and a marketplace for pre-built conversational workflows.
Over the next year, the company aims to significantly increase the number of voice interactions handled on its platform, with a longer-term goal of scaling to hundreds of millions of conversations annually.
Rahul Chandra, managing director at Arkam Ventures, declared, “AI is supercharging the way enterprises deploy their voice stack across processes. Voice, with its natural ease of adoption, opens the enterprise to far greater levels of automation than what the pre-AI voice era allowed for. Ringg.ai has the distinction of being live across the most number of scaled-up enterprise apply cases compared to peers. We believe Ringg.ai will redefine how enterprise workflows are conceived and built”.
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