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Arrowhead

Category: Voice / Speech AI

Human-sounding AI voice agents specialized for the financial services sector that handle long, complex sales conversations with outcomes exceeding human agent performance. Arrowhead was founded in 2022. The company is led by Devyani Gupta. Based in Bengaluru, India. Team size: 20. Total funding raised: $3.32M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include ["Stellaris Venture Partners","Kunal Shah (CRED)","Madhusudanan R (M2P Fintech)"].

Founded
2022
Headquarters
Bengaluru, India
Team size
20
Total funding
$3.32M

Value proposition

Automates inbound and outbound sales and customer engagement through voice AI agents that achieve up to 45% higher conversion rates than human agents, handle 15+ minute complex conversations, and enable real-time actions during calls while maintaining human-like conversational quality.

Products and solutions

["AI Sales Voice Agents (loan sales, mutual funds, fixed deposits, health insurance)","AI Collections Voice Agents","Insurance Renewal Voice Agents","Customer Support Voice AI","Real-Time Lead Calling System (calls within 1 minute of lead entry)","Live Action Integration (payment links, data retrieval, human transfer during calls)"]

Unique value

Verticalized voice AI specifically optimized for BFSI sector with ability to conduct 15+ minute human-like conversations without hallucination; supports real-time language switching on-call, handles customer interruptions while maintaining context, and performs live actions (sending payment links, pulling data, transferring to humans) during conversations. Achieves 100% POC-to-production conversion rate with clients.

Target customer

Banks, Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs), fintech companies, and insurance providers in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector

Industries served

["Banking","Financial Services","Insurance (BFSI)","Fintech","Securities and Asset Management"]

Technology advantage

Combines proprietary voice AI models with BFSI-specific training to deliver 45% higher conversion rates than human agents. Platform features auto-scaling call volume, multilingual support (50+ languages), enterprise-grade compliance (SOC 2, NIST-aligned, BFSI-grade InfoSec), and seamless integration with existing enterprise CRMs, dialers, and internal tools. Real-world deployment shows AI fully replacing manual calling operations for major financial institutions.

How they differentiate

Verticalized voice AI specifically optimized for BFSI sector with ability to conduct 15+ minute human-like sales conversations without hallucination; achieves up to 45% higher conversion rates than human agents; supports real-time language switching and live actions during calls (payment links, data retrieval, human transfer)

Main competitors

["Bolna AI","Yellow.ai","Gnani.ai"]

Key partnerships

["Winner of L&T Finance RAISE'25 Pitch Point Competition (₹25 lakh prize)","Bank of Baroda Cards","Aditya Birla Capital","Paytm","Tata 1MG","upGrad","Kissht","Equentis","TurtleMint","InsuranceDekho","Mudra Fincorp"]

Notable customers

["Bank of Baroda Cards","Aditya Birla Capital","Paytm","Tata 1MG","upGrad","Kissht","Turtlemint","InsuranceDekho","Mudra Fincorp"]

Major milestones

["Winner of L&T Finance RAISE'25 Pitch Point Competition (₹25 lakh prize)","$3M seed round led by Stellaris Venture Partners in January 2026","Onboarded 50+ major BFSI clients including Bank of Baroda, Aditya Birla Capital, Paytm","AI voice bots achieving up to 45% higher conversion rates than human agents"]

Growth metrics

50+ BFSI enterprise clients across India and Southeast Asia; AI voice bots achieving up to 45% higher conversion rates than human agents; 100% POC-to-production conversion rate with clients

Market positioning

Specialized voice AI for BFSI sales automation, focusing on long-form complex sales conversations rather than generic customer support use cases

Geographic focus

India and Southeast Asia

Patents and IP

No registered patents disclosed for Arrowhead (voice AI startup); patent search results referenced Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (different entity in biotechnology sector)

About Devyani Gupta

Devyani Gupta is the Co-founder and CEO of Arrowhead. She is a Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) graduate and former Consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where she worked across the US and India offices advising Fortune 500 companies on strategy, operations, and digital transformation. She founded Arrowhead in 2022 to build human-sounding voice AI agents for the financial services sector.

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