Location
Headquarters: San Jose, California, United States, North America
Region: California
Country: US
Continent: North America
About
LiveKit is an open source framework and cloud platform for building, testing, deploying, scaling, and observing voice, video, and physical AI agents. It provides an agent platform, a media server, and developer SDKs with a cloud dashboard to manage deployments across real-time communications applications. The solution targets developers building complex real-time voice and video experiences and AI-enabled agents, with global reach and ongoing support from the LiveKit ecosystem.
LiveKit provides an open-source framework and cloud platform for building real-time voice, video, and AI agent applications. It offers a media server, developer SDKs, and a cloud dashboard to help developers deploy and scale these experiences. The company serves software engineers creating interactive communication tools and AI-driven interfaces.
LiveKit Incorporated
2021
for_profit
active
Industries
Primary Industry: Software
Categories
Funding & Financials
Series B
45000000
private
Investors
Founders
David Zhao
Russell D'Sa
Leadership
Technology Stack
Products
LiveKit Cloud: A cloud-based realtime platform for building, deploying, and scaling voice and video applications with low latency and high concurrency.
LiveKit Agents Platform: An open source framework and infrastructure for building, deploying, and scaling realtime voice AI agents with automatic turn detection and interruption handling.
Open Source LiveKit Server: A fully open source realtime communication server that can be self-hosted to manage voice and video streams on private infrastructure.
LiveKit Telephony Integration: A service that enables realtime voice agents to make and receive phone calls via SIP and telephony systems.
LiveKit Platform Tools and Features: A suite of tools including dashboards, CLI, analytics, observability, security, and collaboration features to manage realtime voice and video applications.
Funding rounds
Series C · $100M · (2026-01-22) · Lead: Index Ventures
Series B · $45M · (2025-04-11) · Lead: Altimeter Capital
Series A · $22M · (2024-03-13) · Lead: Altimeter Capital