India, Nov. 6 -- Giga, a San Francisco-based startup by two IIT Kharagpur alums, has raised $61 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures. The startup, which builds voice-based AI agents for companies, was founded by Varun Vummadi and Esha Manideep in 2023.

While Esha Manideep serves as co-founder and CTO of Giga, Varun Vummadi is the co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based AI lab.

In a video announcing the $61 million fundraising success, Vummadi and Manideep revealed their AI agents handle hundreds of thousands of conversations every day.

Manideep, sharing the video on X, diplomatically said that he was not excited about the $61 million they had raised, but was rather excited about what the company would do going for...