{"id":1000432,"date":"2026-04-01T08:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000432"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:10:28","slug":"wining-in-ai-requires-owning-the-entire-software-pipeline-qa-with-gnani-ai-cofounder-ganesh-gopalan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/wining-in-ai-requires-owning-the-entire-software-pipeline-qa-with-gnani-ai-cofounder-ganesh-gopalan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wining in AI requires owning the entire software pipeline\u2019 Q&amp;A with Gnani AI cofounder Ganesh Gopalan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based voice AI startup Gnani.ai has raised $10 million in a Series B round led by Aavishkaar Capital at a \u201csignificantly higher\u201d valuation, says co-founder Ganesh Gopalan. The raise comes at a time when AI funding is surging globally, as well as within India, yet Gnani\u2019s total capital raised so far, at roughly $15 million, remains modest in comparison. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, its peer Sarvam AI is reportedly nearing a unicorn valuation in its next round of funding. In a conversation with Ayanti Bera, Gopalan speaks about the drivers behind the fundraise, his approach to multilingual voice AI models, and plans to scale its voice AI agents globally. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based voice AI startup Gnani.ai has raised $10 million in a Series B round led by Aavishkaar Capital at a \u201csignificantly higher\u201d valuation, says co-founder Ganesh Gopalan. The raise comes at a time when AI funding is surging globally, as well as within India, yet Gnani\u2019s total capital raised so far, at roughly $15 million, remains modest in comparison. Meanwhile, its peer Sarvam AI is reportedly nearing a unicorn valuation in its next round of funding. In a conversation with Ayanti Bera, Gopalan speaks about the drivers behind the fundraise, his approach to multilingual voice AI models, and plans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}