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    Forward Inc.

    Hamming AI provides an automated QA and monitoring platform to make voice AI agents reliable, scalable, and safe through automated call simulation and performance analytics.

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    At a Glance

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    1Product
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    6Capabilities
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    San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
    2024Est.
    19Employees
    $3.93MRaised
    Focus Areas
    Automated Testing
    Conversational Agents
    Observability Platforms
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    Latest News
    Hamming AI Raises $3.8M Seed Round Led by MischiefDec 18, 2024
    Hamming.ai Raises $3.8M for AI Voice Agent Testing ToolsDec 18, 2024
    Markets
    • Enterprise
    • Healthcare
    • B2B Technology
    • Clinical Research

    AI Tools by Forward Inc.

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    Hamming

    Voice Agent QA Testing Platform

    Automated TestingConversational AIObservability

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    Latest News

    12/18/2024

    Hamming AI Raises $3.8M Seed Round Led by Mischief

    Business Wire
    12/18/2024

    Hamming.ai Raises $3.8M for AI Voice Agent Testing Tools

    AI Business Weekly
    09/25/2024

    Hamming AI Featured in TechCrunch on Voice Agent Reliability

    TechCrunch
    06/01/2024

    Hamming Launches Automated AI Voice Agent Testing (YC Launch)

    Y Combinator

    Products & Services

    1
    Hamming QA / Voice Agent Testing Platform
    2024

    An automated testing and monitoring platform for AI voice agents that simulates calls, generates test scenarios from prompts, and provides production analytics.

    Market Position

    Category leader in voice agent QA; provides the first end-to-end platform covering both pre-deployment testing and production monitoring with audio-native evaluation.

    Leadership

    Founders

    SS

    Sumanyu Sharma

    Founder & CEO of Hamming AI. Previously Head of Data at Citizen (2021-2022) and Senior Staff Data Scientist at Tesla (2018-2019). Also held roles at Virtual Power Systems and FutureAdvisor.

    MB

    Marius Buleandra

    Co-founder & CTO of Hamming AI. Previously Engineering Manager at Anduril Industries and Technical Lead at Citizen. Also worked at Anthropic (MTS), Spell, Square, and Microsoft (Windows Kernel).

    Executive Team

    SS

    Sumanyu Sharma

    Founder & CEO

    Ex-Head of Data at Citizen, Ex-Senior Staff Data Scientist at Tesla.

    MB

    Marius Buleandra

    Co-Founder & CTO

    Ex-Engineering Manager at Anduril, Ex-Tech Lead at Citizen, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.

    Board of Directors

    LF
    Lauren Farleigh
    General Partner at Mischief (Lead Investor)
    NA
    Nate Abbott
    General Partner at Mischief
    HS
    Hiten Shah
    Advisor/Investor (CEO at Crazy Egg)

    Founding Story

    Founded by Sumanyu Sharma and Marius Buleandra (who worked together at Citizen) after realizing that testing voice AI agents in production was a major hurdle for reliability. They applied learnings from Tesla and Citizen to build the infrastructure needed for trustworthy voice AI.

    Business Model

    Revenue
    $1.1M ARR reported in 2025

    Revenue Model

    Subscription-based SaaS with tiered pricing for Agency, Startup, and Enterprise segments.

    Pricing Tiers

    Agency
    Contact for pricing

    Automated testing, call analytics, trust/safety reports, multi-client management.

    Startup
    Contact for pricing

    Automated testing, call analytics, trust/safety reports, founder support.

    Enterprise
    Contact for pricing

    All Startup features plus SOC-2 & HIPAA compliance, SLAs, dedicated engineer.

    Private

    Target Markets

    Industries & Segments
    • Enterprise
    • Healthcare
    • B2B Technology
    • Clinical Research
    Use Cases
    • Customer support automation
    • Appointment scheduling
    • Clinical trials and healthcare patient outreach
    • Sales and outbound dialing
    Notable Customers
    • Bland Labs

    Quick Facts

    Headquarters
    San Francisco, California
    Founded
    2024
    Entity Type
    Inc.
    Employees
    19
    Total Funding
    $3.93M
    Investors
    Mischief, Y Combinator
    Office Locations
    San Francisco

    Funding History

    Seed$3,800,000
    2024-12-18
    Mischief
    Pre-Seed (YC)$130,000
    2024-08
    Y Combinator

    History & Milestones

    2025

    Achieved SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance (BAA available).

    2024

    Company founded in San Francisco.

    2024-03

    Participated in Y Combinator S24 batch.

    2024-09

    Featured in TechCrunch regarding automated voice agent QA platform.

    2024-12

    Raised $3.8M Seed round led by Mischief.

    Key Capabilities

    6
    Automated scenario generation from prompts
    Production call monitoring and replay
    Load and stress testing (1,000+ concurrent calls/min)
    50+ built-in quality metrics (latency, hallucination, sentiment)
    Red-teaming for safety and prompt injection
    Multi-language support (65+ languages and accents)

    Integrations & Partnerships

    Platform Integrations

    • REST API
    • CI/CD
    • Webhooks
    • OpenTelemetry

    Key Partnerships

    LiveKit
    ElevenLabs
    Vapi

    Connect

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    hamming.ai
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    hammingai
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    hamming-ai

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