Kore.ai at a glance
Question | Answer | As of |
|---|---|---|
Who owns Kore.ai? | Founder Raj Koneru, employees and investors led by FTV Capital, Vistara Growth and NVIDIA; no public shares | Nov 2026 |
Valuation | Not disclosed; Forge, a private-share marketplace, puts the 2024 round at about $804M post-money | Jan 2024 |
Total raised | About $250M, per the CEO, plus an undisclosed 2026 investment | Oct 2024 |
Revenue | ARR above $100M in FY2023–24; Koneru says the business “more than doubled” by early 2026 | Feb 2026 |
Customers | 500+ large enterprises, per Kore.ai, including PNC, AT&T, Cigna, Coca-Cola, Airbus and Vanguard | Jul 2026 |
Employees | Nearly 1,000 in early 2024; over 700 in India, its largest R&D center, by 2026 | 2024–2026 |
CEO | Raj Koneru, founder; previously founded Kony | Nov 2026 |
Founded | 2014 (some databases say 2013), as Kore, Inc. | 2014 |
Headquarters | Orlando, Florida; “strategic headquarters” in San Mateo, California, since May 2026 | May 2026 |
Analyst rating | A Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for conversational AI platforms in 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026 | Jul 2026 |
Email format | {first}.{last}@kore.com (86% of kore.com addresses) | Nov 2026 |
Kore.ai, Inc. is a Delaware company, formerly Kore, Inc. (SEC). It has subsidiaries in Germany, the UK and India, where Kore.ai Software India Pvt. Ltd. runs its Hyderabad development center (Kore.ai).
Who owns Kore.ai?
Kore.ai is private, and no ownership stakes are published. Raj Koneru put his own money in from the start: a 2019 company release says he funded it again in 2018 “on top of the significant funding he has made since inception” (MarTech Series). Outside investors named in Kore.ai’s releases are FTV Capital, NVIDIA, Vistara Growth, PNC, NextEquity Partners, Nicola Wealth, Beedie Capital, Sweetwater Private Equity and AllianceBernstein (Kore.ai) (Kore.ai).
Its 2021 SEC filing lists seven directors, including Koneru and investors from Vistara and PNC (SEC). Clearwater Analytics’ SEC filings describe Dr. Mukesh Aghi, who runs the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, as Kore.ai’s Executive Chairman since September 2023 (SEC).
What is Kore.ai’s revenue?
Kore.ai doesn’t publish revenue. When it raised $150 million in January 2024, TechCrunch reported annual recurring revenue “north of $100 million” (TechCrunch), and Koneru gave the same figure for its 2023–24 fiscal year (Pulse 2.0). In February 2026 he said the business had “more than doubled” since that round (CX Today).
Date | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
Feb 2026 | Business “more than doubled” since January 2024 (metric not specified) | |
Jan 2024 | ARR “north of $100 million”; triple-digit growth for four years | |
Aug 2023 | Revenue up a record 130% | |
Feb 2022 | Revenue expected to double in FY2022 | |
Sep 2021 | Growing over 100% a year |
About 70% of its business comes from customer service, 25% from employee tools and 5% from process automation, Koneru said in September 2026 (APAC News Network). Kore.ai says it serves more than 500 large enterprises (Kore.ai); about 75% of its customers are in regulated industries such as banking and healthcare (VentureBeat).
Kore.ai ARR (annual recurring revenue)
Kore.ai’s ARR was “north of $100 million” in January 2024 (TechCrunch). It hasn’t given a newer figure, though Raj Koneru said in February 2026 that the business had more than doubled since (CX Today).
Kore.ai MRR (monthly recurring revenue)
Kore.ai doesn’t publish MRR. $100 million of ARR meant at least $8.3 million a month in early 2024; that is our calculation, not a company figure.
How much has Kore.ai raised? Funding and valuation
Koneru put the total at $250 million in October 2024 (Pulse 2.0); TechCrunch counted about $223 million after the 2024 round (TechCrunch). Kore.ai has never disclosed a valuation. Forge, a marketplace for private shares, lists the 2024 round at $14.39 a share and about $804 million post-money (Forge); treat that as an estimate, not a company figure.
Date | Round | Amount | Led by | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 27, 2026 | Growth investment | Not disclosed | AllianceBernstein Private Credit Investors | |
Jan 30, 2024 | Growth round | $150M | FTV Capital, with NVIDIA | |
Mar 2023 | Venture loan | $30M | Hercules Capital | |
Nov 23, 2021 | Series C extension | $3.5M | NVIDIA | |
Sep 29, 2021 | Series C, plus a $20M credit line | $50M | Vistara Growth and PNC | |
Mar 2021 | Equity round, mostly converted debt | $30.8M | Not disclosed | |
Nov 2019 | Growth capital | Not disclosed | Vistara Capital | |
2014–Jan 2019 | Founder and early funding | Over $45M in total | Raj Koneru |
Of the 2024 round, FTV Capital committed $100 million and existing investors $50 million (IT Brief). That January, Koneru told Bloomberg: “We’ll have the scale and process in place to be able to have an IPO in about two years” (Bloomberg). No IPO filing has followed.
What does Kore.ai make? Products
Kore.ai sells a platform for building AI agents that handle customer service, help employees find answers and automate business processes. It began as Kore, a messaging app with built-in bots for work, released in February 2016 (PR Newswire), and became a conversational-AI platform for virtual assistants. Its current version, Artemis, launched in May 2026 for building, governing and tuning agents across a company (Kore.ai).
Date | Launch | Source |
|---|---|---|
Oct 7, 2026 | Autoloop, which keeps AI agents tuned once they are in production | |
May 21, 2026 | Artemis, the new generation of its Agent Platform | |
Mar 17, 2026 | Agent Management Platform | |
Mar 17, 2025 | Agent Platform, combining AI for Service, AI for Work and AI for Process | |
Dec 4, 2024 | AI for Work, an assistant for employees | |
Jul 16, 2024 | GALE, a workspace for building generative-AI apps | |
Sep 2021 | SmartAssist, an AI contact center | |
Feb 18, 2016 | Kore, a bot-based messaging platform for work |
It partners with Microsoft, as a launch partner for Agent 365 (Kore.ai), and with AWS (Kore.ai). NiCE names Kore.ai among its competitors, with Sierra, Cresta and Salesforce (SEC); NiCE itself bought Kore.ai’s rival Cognigy for $955 million in 2025 (Dallas Innovates).
Who is the CEO of Kore.ai?
Raj Koneru founded Kore.ai and is its CEO. A serial founder, he earlier founded Kony, an app-development platform that Temenos bought for $559 million in 2019 (Willkie), and was co-CEO of Intelligroup, an IT consultancy that went public on Nasdaq in 1996 (SEC). He studied at BITS Pilani in India (Pulse 2.0).
Person | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|
Raj Koneru | Founder and CEO | |
Prasanna Arikala | CTO and head of product; a member of the founding team | |
DK Sharma | President; joined as President and COO in 2023, formerly Citigroup’s international CIO | |
Uma Sandilya | Chief Commercial Officer since July 2026 | |
Peter Mullen | Chief Marketing Officer | |
Rajavardhan Nalluri | Chief Customer Operations Officer | |
Dr. Mukesh Aghi | Executive Chairman since September 2023, per Clearwater Analytics’ SEC filings |
Full bio and contact routes: Kore.ai CEO Raj Koneru: email address, LinkedIn and bio.
Where is Kore.ai headquartered?
Kore.ai’s official headquarters is at 7380 West Sand Lake Road, Orlando, Florida (Kore.ai). In May 2026 it opened a “strategic headquarters” in San Mateo, California (Kore.ai). It also has offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Dubai, Hyderabad, Seoul and Tokyo (Kore.ai). Hyderabad, its global R&D hub, opened a 500-seat office in 2022 (Kore.ai).
What is Kore.ai’s email format?
Kore.ai staff mostly use {first}.{last}@kore.com, not kore.ai: 86% of kore.com addresses per LeadIQ (LeadIQ), and Clay verifies the same pattern (Clay). kore.com, the company’s original domain, redirects to kore.ai, and its recent press releases list staff at kore.com.
Need | Official address |
|---|---|
Press | press@kore.com |
Privacy | privacy@kore.ai |
General feedback | info@kore.ai |
Support | The support portal at support.kore.ai, or +1 844 924 8973 |
All patterns, both domains and the official inboxes: Kore.ai email format.
Key events: from a messaging app to AI agents
Date | Event |
|---|---|
Oct 7, 2026 | Launches Autoloop (Kore.ai) |
Jul 2026 | Named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for the fourth time (Kore.ai); Uma Sandilya becomes Chief Commercial Officer (Kore.ai) |
May 2026 | Opens a strategic headquarters in San Mateo and launches Artemis (Kore.ai) |
Jan 27, 2026 | Growth investment led by AllianceBernstein (Kore.ai) |
Nov 18, 2025 | Launch partner for Microsoft Agent 365 (Kore.ai) |
Mar 17, 2025 | Launches its Agent Platform (Kore.ai) |
Jan 30, 2024 | Raises $150M led by FTV Capital, with NVIDIA (Kore.ai) |
Aug 2023 | DK Sharma joins as President and COO (Kore.ai) |
Feb 2022 | First named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant (Kore.ai) |
Nov 2021 | NVIDIA invests; Series C reaches $73.5M (Kore.ai) |
Sep 2021 | Raises a $50M Series C led by Vistara Growth and PNC (Kore.ai) |
Feb 18, 2016 | Releases Kore, a bot-based messaging platform (PR Newswire) |
2014 | Raj Koneru founds the company (Kore.ai) |
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