Sumanyu Sharma 🍫

Building (YC S24); ex-@Tesla, ex-@CitizenApp, @UWaterloo eng; made in 🇨🇦 aka bopnchocolate

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Announcing Our $3.8M Seed Round to Make Voice AI Agents Reliable 🎙

If 2024 was the year of demos, 2025 is the year of reliable voice agents.

We’re excited to share that @HammingAI has raised $3.8M in seed funding led by @MischiefVC, with participation from @ycombinator, @aigrant, @pioneer_fund, @CoughdropCap, @coalitionvc, @orangecollectv, @twentytwovc, @transposevc, @OliveTreeCap and an incredible group of angels.

Read more about us here:
1) Blog: https://t.co/lROYWt8jfk
2) Coverage by Kerry Flynn from Axios: https://t.co/z9RaSltM1l

Humans make billions of calls every day. AI voice agents will perform a majority of these calls. Ensuring their reliability is tough — small changes can break responses, and manual testing doesn’t scale. Even when you ship your voice agents to production, teams spend hours manually listening to calls to find bugs and edge cases.

At @HammingAI, we automate testing, monitoring, and governance for Voice AI agents, helping teams catch failures, optimize prompts, and flag edge cases in production. Hamming makes your Voice AI agents trustworthy.

Thanks to our team, customers, and investors for believing in this mission.

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@davj Too good

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@WorldlineGlobal @money2020 @ng_news @Mastercard @CustomersBank @ElevenLabs @Experian @MoneyGram @AU10TIXLimited The next 18 months won't be about whether to ship agents into finance. It'll be about whether you can test, replay, and govern them when you do.

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@WorldlineGlobal just executed Europe's first live agentic payment in production. The conversation about AI buying things on your behalf is over. It happened yesterday in Amsterdam.

@money2020 Europe Day 1 wrapped with agentic commerce, voice AI, and stablecoins all crossing the same line at the same time: production. The announcements from Amsterdam are shipped, live, and inside regulated banks.

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@WorldlineGlobal @money2020 @ng_news @Mastercard @CustomersBank @ElevenLabs @Experian @MoneyGram Counter-signal: @AU10TIXLimited data shows AI-generated identity fraud now outpaces physical document forgery globally. Roughly 1 in 11 verification attempts show signs of AI manipulation.

The same capabilities banks are deploying are being weaponized against them.

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@amytam01 @SpaceX @xai Grats!!!

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@TheEthanDing @blackstone nice!

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If that sounds fun, send a one-pager:

1. Why Hamming?
2. Why you?
3. First 30-day plan?
4. One strong opinion on voice AI.

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Quick context on the GTM Engineer role we’re hiring for. A few people asked what the job actually looks like.

Our sales motion is not “send outbound, run discovery, hand off to solutions.”

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In a given week, you might:
- Turn usage patterns into expansion conversations
- Help a technical buyer compare Hamming to their in-house evals
- Translate a messy production failure into a test plan
- Figure out whether the real blocker is reliability, security, monitoring, or workflow automation
- Move a customer from technical interest to a commercial next step

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@togethercompute @ElevenLabs @MiniMax_AI @pipecat_ai @parloa_ai @sesame @Greenhouse @StepFun_ai @twilio The category is splitting by layer, and the specialists are shipping faster than the bundled platforms.

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Voice AI specialized this week. Every layer of the stack, from the STT leaderboard down to consumer iPhones, shipped something.

Here's what happened in Voice AI this week:

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@togethercompute @ElevenLabs @MiniMax_AI @pipecat_ai @parloa_ai @sesame @Greenhouse @StepFun_ai @twilio, Infobip, and Vonage lead the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for CPaaS 2026. Telnyx debuts as a Niche Player on the back of its own carrier-grade IP network across 60+ countries.