Yellow.ai, Inc.
Headquarters
San Mateo, CAFounded
2016CEO / Founder
Raghu RavinutalaEmployees
501-1000Funding
Series C — $102MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.0/10Website
yellow.ai
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About Yellow.ai, Inc.
Yellow.ai, Inc. develops a conversational AI platform that automates customer and employee interactions through chat and voice agents. The company was founded in 2016 in Bangalore, India, as Yellow Messenger by Raghu Ravinutala, Jayakishore Gollareddy, and Rashid Khan, and rebranded to Yellow.ai in June 2021. It is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and retains a large engineering base in Bangalore.
Its core offering, the Dynamic Automation Platform, lets enterprises build and deploy AI agents across text and voice channels in more than 100 languages. The company introduced its DynamicNLP engine in 2022 and added generative AI capabilities across the platform in 2023, deploying over 120 generative AI bots that year. Customers have included Sony, Flipkart, Grab, Domino's, HDFC Bank, Volkswagen, and IndiGo, and the company states it serves more than 1,000 enterprises across 85+ countries.
Yellow.ai has raised approximately $102 million: a $4 million Series A in 2019 led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, a $20 million Series B in 2020, and a $78.15 million Series C in August 2021 led by WestBridge Capital with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Lightspeed. Raghu Ravinutala serves as chief executive officer, and the company employed roughly 860 people as of mid-2026.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Yellow.ai, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.
Jio-owned (Reliance) conversational AI platform leaning on deep India-market and Jio ecosystem distribution; competes most directly with Yellow.ai on WhatsApp-first commerce and support bots for Indian and APAC enterprises.
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Now owned by NICE, Cognigy is built around deep CCaaS/telephony integrations (NICE, Genesys, Avaya); competes with Yellow.ai in enterprise voice and self-service automation but from a stronger contact-center-suite pedigree.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
CPaaS-first platform (WhatsApp/RCS/SMS messaging APIs) that layered on conversational AI agents later; overlaps with Yellow.ai most closely in India-led enterprise messaging automation and commerce bots.
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US-headquartered enterprise conversational/agentic AI platform of similar scale and vintage to Yellow.ai; competes head-to-head for large-enterprise contact-center and virtual-assistant deployments, particularly in North America.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Yellow.ai, Inc.'s history, with sources.
- Milestone
Announces $550M SPAC merger with Bluerock Acquisition Corp to go public on Nasdaq as "YAI"
Yellow.ai signed a definitive Business Combination Agreement with Bluerock Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: BLRK), valuing Yellow.ai at a ~$300M pre-money valuation and ~$550M pro forma equity value, with >$200M expected gross proceeds including a $30M PIPE; close expected H2 2026.
prnewswire.com - Launch
Launches Nexus Vox, an enterprise voice AI platform with sub-400ms latency
Yellow.ai launched Nexus Vox, a voice AI product built as a single integrated system (not stitched-together vendor APIs), offering sub-400ms speech-to-response latency, 10-second voice cloning, and support across 500+ languages and dialects.
uk.finance.yahoo.com - Milestone
Lays off 100+ employees (~30% of workforce) amid pivot to agentic AI
Yellow.ai cut more than 100 employees (about 30% of staff), mostly in engineering and product, in the weeks before Dec 23 2025, following an earlier round of 40-50 layoffs in August 2025; the company said the shift from conversational AI to autonomous agents required fewer people to build and support the product.
inc42.com - Launch
Launches Dynamic Automation Platform (DAP) with generative AI, unveils new logo
Yellow.ai launched its Dynamic Automation Platform (DAP), powered by generative AI, claiming a 60% reduction in enterprise operational costs, and revealed a new logo as part of a rebranding strategy.
news.webindia123.com - Funding
Series C — $78.15M led by WestBridge Capital
Yellow.ai closed a $78.15M Series C round led by WestBridge Capital, with participation from Sapphire Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, bringing cumulative funding to roughly $102.15M.
voicebot.ai - Milestone
Yellow Messenger rebrands as Yellow.ai, launches voice AI platform in the US
Indian enterprise conversational AI startup Yellow Messenger rebranded as Yellow.ai and debuted new AI-powered voice bots alongside its US market launch.
voicebot.ai - Funding
Series B — $20M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Yellow Messenger (later Yellow.ai) raised a $20M Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lightspeed India Partners, taking total funding to roughly $24M.
inc42.com - Funding
Series A — $4M led by Lightspeed with angel investors
Yellow Messenger raised a $4M Series A from Lightspeed Venture Partners and angel investors including Alap Bharadwaj, Anand Swaminathan, Monisha Varadan and Nishant Rao.
finsmes.com - Founded
Founded by Raghu Ravinutala, Rashid Khan and Jaya Kishore Reddy
Yellow.ai (originally Yellow Messenger) was founded in 2016 in Bangalore on the premise that enterprise software would evolve from tools that assist people to agents that do the work.
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