SuperBryn, a Bengaluru-based voice AI startup, has raised $1.2 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Kalaari Capital’s CXXO Initiative.
The round also saw participation from angel investors, including Rikant Pitti (Co-founder, EaseMyTrip), Arjun Pillai (Founder, Docket AI), Sharath Keshava Narayanan (Founder, Sanas AI), Harish Manian (Group CEO, BMH), and Nivin Pauly (Leading South Indian Actor).
The funds raised will be used to accelerate product development, expand engineering hiring, and deepen market validation with early enterprise customers across industries.
Founded in 2025 by Nikkitha Shanker and Dr Neethu Mariam Joy, SuperBryn AI builds a reliability infrastructure for enterprise voice agents.
SuperBryn AI provides evaluation, observability, and self-learning tools that help enterprises monitor, measure, and continuously improve their voice agents in the real world.
SuperBryn aims to become an independent watchdog and reliability standard for enterprise AI agents, ensuring that voice AI systems meet the same monitoring, compliance, and reliability expectations as modern cloud infrastructure.
Nikkitha Shanker, Co-founder of SuperBryn, said, “Voice agents fail silently. An enterprise might have a million conversations a month, but they have no idea which ones went wrong, why the agent fumbled, or how to fix it without manually reviewing thousands of calls. We’re building the layer that surfaces what’s breaking, why it’s breaking, and automatically makes the agent better, without human intervention. Monitoring and Evals is non-negotiable in industries like healthcare, finance, and insurance, where one failed conversation can mean a missed diagnosis, a compliance violation, or a claim that never gets processed.”
Dr Neethu Mariam Joy, Co-founder of SuperBryn, said, “After 14 years in speech and voice AI research, I’ve seen why voice agents fail in the wild. Most platforms test only for narrow conditions, not for the messy reality of human speech. SuperBryn exists to fix this. We’re building intelligent evaluation and feedback systems that ensure voice agents not only work on day one but keep improving every single day.”
Jayraj Bharat Patel, AVP, Kalaari Capital, said, “Voice AI is at an inflection point; enterprises are moving from experimentation to scaled deployment, but reliability remains the biggest bottleneck. SuperBryn will fill a critical missing layer with independent evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Nikkitha and Neethu have deep technical and 0-to-1 experience, and are extremely passionate about setting the reliability standard for voice AI globally. We are super excited to partner with them on this journey.”
