Zavu
Zavu is a developer- and LLM-first agentic communication infrastructure company. It provides one API for WhatsApp, SMS, voice, email, Telegram, Messenger and other channels so software and AI agents can reach customers with routing, fallback, compliance and billing handled in one layer.
At a Glance
- Developers and AI-agent builders
- SMBs and mid-market companies
- E-commerce and online stores
- Real-estate businesses
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Latest News
Leon by Zavu released v0.16.0, an open-source native workspace/orchestrator for coding agents.
Zavu published guidance on Meta's October 30, 2026 terms update and its implications for businesses using Meta products.
Zavu 2.0 launched with a goal-oriented dashboard, Channels consolidated in one place and API v2.
Zavu explained Meta's new 1,000-free-service-messages policy and the requirement to add a payment method before message 1,001.
Products & Services
Unified API for sending and receiving WhatsApp, SMS, voice, email, Telegram, Messenger and other channel messages through one integration, webhook and bill. Supports smart routing, fallbacks, phone numbers, templates and delivery status.
Agents that answer customers across WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram and email, use documents and business systems, call tools, maintain memory and hand off to people when needed.
Phone agents that answer in the caller's language, use the same API/deployment model, and can hand off to a human.
Broadcast and marketing messaging with delivery tracking across supported channels.
Market Position
Zavu positions itself as an agent-native, developer- and LLM-first alternative to CPaaS vendors such as Twilio and MessageBird: one API across more channels, built-in routing/fallback/compliance and no Zavu markup on WhatsApp. Public comparables identified by Caplight include Novu, Knock and Courier. Its main differentiation is combining multichannel communications infrastructure with deployable AI agents and agent-oriented tooling rather than offering only messaging primitives.
Leadership
Founders
Victor Villalobos
Founder & CEO; 13+ years building software and infrastructure. Former Cornershop (later acquired by Uber) engineer and tech lead, and CTO of RendaloMaq (YC 2021).
Jénnifer Villalobos
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer. Public Zavu/F6S materials identify her as a co-founder; her public profile describes a product and UX-driven role.
Executive Team
Victor Villalobos
Founder & CEO
Former Cornershop/Uber engineer and tech lead; former CTO of YC 2021 company RendaloMaq; 13+ years in software and infrastructure.
Jénnifer Villalobos
Co-founder & CPO
Co-founder with a product and UX-driven background, according to public Zavu/F6S and LinkedIn descriptions.
Founding Story
Victor Villalobos says he repeatedly encountered messaging as an unplanned second product: separate vendors for each channel, homegrown routing, compliance queues and confusing invoices. Zavu was started to be the unified layer he wished he had—one API, real phone numbers and the underlying communications plumbing on one bill.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Freemium subscription plus usage-based pricing. Zavu charges monthly platform-plan fees, channel connections and usage for SMS, voice, email, phone numbers, memory and function calls; WhatsApp platform/message charges are passed through at Meta cost without Zavu markup. Zavu also sells implementation/agent-building services through Studio.
Pricing Tiers
$2 monthly usage credit; 300,000 function calls; 250,000 memory units; 0.5 GB memory storage; two channel connections and one team member.
$20 monthly usage credit; two million memory units; five GB memory storage; one included US phone number; one team member; additional connections and features are billed from balance.
Custom negotiated limits and pricing.
Zavu builds and operates production agents; the page also shows normal prices of $4,900 one-time and $2,500/month.
Target Markets
- Developers and AI-agent builders
- SMBs and mid-market companies
- E-commerce and online stores
- Real-estate businesses
- Customer-support and sales teams
- Marketing and growth teams
- AI customer-support and sales agents
- Voice-agent phone support and IVR replacement
- Transactional order, account and shipping notifications
- OTP, login and identity verification
- SMS and WhatsApp messaging with fallback
- WhatsApp Business templates and customer conversations
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