Daily

Developers who need live audio and video inside their own apps, and more recently voice AI agents that talk to people in real time, are the customers of Daily, a company that has built on WebRTC since it started in 2016. On 29 October 2026 it announced that Deepgram is acquiring it.

Real-time calls on a global network

Daily's commercial products are infrastructure: a global network for real-time calls, WebRTC client SDKs for web, desktop and mobile apps, and telephony. Its co-founder Kwindla Hultman Kramer describes the work as optimised packet-routing software, compute clusters in dozens of locations and client libraries that let developers embed audio and video. The company says it offers end-to-end encryption, signs HIPAA business associate agreements and operates under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. It is a member of the W3C WebRTC Working Group and contributes to the open-source projects Mediasoup and GStreamer.

Pipecat and voice agents

From 2023 Daily turned its infrastructure towards conversations between people and AI. The tooling it built for that became Pipecat, which it open-sourced in 2024: an orchestration framework for voice and multimodal agents, client SDKs, the RTVI messaging standard, the Smart Turn turn-detection model, a lightweight WebRTC transport and the Pipecat Flows library. By the company's count Pipecat has more than 200 integrations and almost 400 contributors, and customers can deploy agents built with it on Daily's network.

Joining Deepgram

Daily and Deepgram went through Y Combinator together in 2016, and Deepgram has supplied the transcription inside Daily's APIs since 2019. Under the acquisition, Deepgram will sell, support and develop Daily's products, the team keeps working on Pipecat and the network, and Pipecat moves to an independent foundation whose steering committee includes Deepgram's competitors. No price was given.

Key facts

Headquarters: fully remote; founding team based in San Francisco, California (no street address published) Founded: 2016 (Y Combinator batch of that year) Founders/People: Kwindla Hultman Kramer (co-founder); a second co-founder, named as Nina in his announcement Products: WebRTC real-time audio and video infrastructure, telephony, client SDKs; Pipecat (open source) Corporate news: being acquired by Deepgram, announced 29 October 2026 Website: https://www.daily.co