Tushar Shinde

Standing on that stage and holding that little block of trophy.. it hit me how far our tiny team has come. This felt like a full-circle moment for us. We graduated from the @GoogleStartups AI Accelerator. For the first time in a long time, we actually paused and looked at what we’ve been building… and what @VaaniHQ is turning into. The truth is, most of this journey hasn’t looked like 'acceleration' at all. It looked like whiteboards full of half-broken ideas. It looked like making voice models work in production was so fricking hard. Getting rejections from customers forced us to unlearn everything we thought we knew. But since then, we’ve had some of our biggest breakthroughs in tech, in business, and in understanding what it really takes to build infrastructure that can one day carry the weight of how the world speaks to AI systems. To our investors and partners, thank you for trusting a team that was still wiring the engine while flying the plane. To our early customers, thank you for the calls, the feedback, the patience, the tough questions. You shaped this more than you know. To the awesome folks at @Google, especially @farishcv, @anjolieeapen, @vania_scott, @karthik_padman thank you for stretching our thinking and backing us through this journey. Lastly, to the @VaaniHQ team - this one is for you. Every demo that broke, every model that hallucinated, every night we pushed through… all of it led here. Cheers, Tushar

@capyheer Heeraa this means more than you know. The weight you feel is exactly what we hoped this team would carry. Year two, together!!

I joined this team after all of this had already happened. And still, every day, you feel the weight of how seriously everyone here takes the work. Proud to be part of year two.

In 2017, Nitesh and I had a compute window on Sahasrat, IISc's supercomputer. We weren't supposed to be there. No grant. No project. Just two people genuinely bothered by one question. Why does AI speech feel like it's performing humanness rather than just... being? We didn't have an answer. We had each other and a closing window of borrowed compute. That night didn't leave us. Seven years later, that question is a company. 16 people. 50TB of data built by hand. $2.3M in pipeline. A training regime the community said was impossible. And we're just getting started. Everything we couldn't say in a pitch deck 👇

A few years ago, I was just trying to understand how financial systems work. Now somehow ended up being on the table where folks are deciding how they might evolve with Agentic AI. Funny how that happens. You spend a few years building in a corner, nothing happens for a long time and suddenly everything compounds and you’re in rooms like this. And specifically for sensitive, regulated sectors, your typical last-mile solutioning is not going to solve it - but a major leap in how companies build agents, test them on responses, actions, utterances, accesses, multi-level guardrails and somehow tangibly promise that it works in real messy scenarios. If there’s one takeaway: AI in finance isn’t a model problem. It’s a reliability problem. he question is.. are you solving for that 1% which makes the agent work in a Tier-3 city where somebody is talking to your agent in their regional dialect from a fish-market? And I am proud that the talented folks from @VaaniHQ have already been promisingly working towards it! P.S. We have recently onboarded a few GSI partners to make Vaani available to the larger market. If you're looking to partner with a world-class AI team, our inbox is always open :) #Vaani #VoiceAI #Finance

@ShubhamTotu @VaaniHQ

if someone mentions "ai + india" in one sentence, what are the top startups or companies that come to mind? the context could be around already funded wrappers, new models, service based agents, full-stacks. not limited to ct. think sarvam, krutrim, ganit, corover. additional points if they have an hq/office in place (blr or anywhere).

Hiring for 3 positions | For Freshers Only I am looking for hardworking, sincere and proactive folks with fresh energy to join our Customer Success & Strategy team at Vaani Research Labs. You shall have really good interpersonal skills & technical aptitude. This is ideal for someone with a builder mindset and has done customer-facing work with AI systems. Internship experience is a plus. To apply, kindly drop an email to *team@vaaniresearch.com* with a subject line “Customer Success Role Application” and make sure to mandatorily include the following. 1. A short blurb about you 2. ⁠A short 1-2 minute video introducing yourself and why you’re the best person for this role. 3. ⁠Your resume (Don't worry, college is not a bar) This role is strictly for freshers, and we pay close attention to our people to nurture them throughout their careers. So you will be in the good company of super-talented folks. Check more here: vaaniresearch.com/team.html This is an on-site role in HSR, Bangalore Joining: Immediate #Hiring #Freshers #Vaani #AI

On 16th March, we’ll be setting up a camp at the @Magicball_dev AI Festival in Bangalore this weekend. The entire @VaaniHQ team is excited for this one. Booth, demos, and some nerdy conversations. We’ll not be there to pitch or to sell magic. Just showing how real stuff that works and where our foundational model can take the Voice AI Space. At Vaani, we’re deep in Voice from last 8 years. And the deeper you go, the more you realise how hard it really is. And we'd love to share, from our eyes, how this industry and technology grew firsthand. If you're building with AI, deploying voice in your ops, dabbling around different speech models, or just curious about what the heck is going on in the AI world - come hang with us. The happy folks at @grayscale_vc, @ElevCap, @Razorpay, @plivo and @theboundlessvc are powering this, so I am sure there's gonna be a blast too 🔥 🔥 So if you’re attending, let’s meet :) @natashamalpani @PoorviVijay @VickyJain312 @siddharthverma @sidsverma @nikhilkapur @HamadJowher @shashank_kr @harshilmathur Nitish Mishra Nitesh Tripathi

The biggest impact today is when voice is used in tandem with other communication channels like WhatsApp, email, and of course, a human at the bottom of the funnel.

Love how the Voice AI ecosystem is growing in every aspect of life now. It's not too long that voice ai will be the number one way to make business processes and every day life more efficient. Kudos to @tankots @WisprFlow and team!

@JagritiShreya Register here: luma.com/5q48lh9w

It’s not every day you get to talk about the messy, chaotic, extremely fun world of building infrastructure and foundation models for pushing the limits of Speech AI. I will be speaking at VoiceAIspace.com 👾's first India event hosted by @JagritiShreya and Swati. Really looking forward to jamming with some great founders, researchers, builders, and product folks in Voice. Come lets talk if you’re around. Should be a fun one. Link in comments. 🗓️ Feb 28 | 6:00 PM IST | Bangalore #VoiceAI #Vaani

@GurpriyaSidhu while managing 100 slack messages at once

The primary job of a person working in a Bangalore start up is to complete 100g protein per day

It's only the top 0.06% building for the future. It's that evident and still so many people are sleeping on it, when they can be the one driving the future. So excited for the Voice AI segment to reach the masses and experience their joy of playing with it and improving their lives one LLM at a time.

@saurabhyadavz another post making people doubt in themselves

trust me, making ₹5L/month with 3–4 years of experience is very much doable in tech in India.

@UghDitya love the aesthetics man!

Me and my room’s favorite corner

@primal_brainer food engineer

they say engineering is dead and go on to add 'engineer' to every word out there growth engineer content enginner design engineer taste engineer what did i miss?

@ranjhaniharshal congratulationss make this count

guys! I got promoted from intern to full time

From a lesser-known niche to @VaaniHQ being named a Rising Star of 2025, the journey taught us a lottt Thanks @RazorpayRize, for the recognition :D Congratulations to the other startups building for the future!! Godspeed 🚀🚀🚀 Are you using any of these yet?

@naval third one is constant

Careers are dead. Jobs are dying. Opportunities arising.

@subahwadhwani @ycombinator haha maybe send them DM on X :P

I sometimes find it easier to get replies from billionaire ceos than @ycombinator startups via cold emails