🚨 New a16z investment thesis! It's time for AI to reinvent the phone call - enter conversational voice agents 📱 What we're excited to invest in + market maps (from me and Anish Acharya) 👇

🚨 9-1-1 hold times in my city of Oakland can last as long as 20 min! 😵 Benjamin Sanders, 4x founder and AMID fellow, is taking that problem head on with his new AI company, Hyper. Hyper is building voice AI for government, to help triage the massive surplus demand from

Thx to Gabe Sawhney & Civic Tech Toronto for hosting our CEO, Benjamin Sanders, back in March to talk about voice A.I. in gov't (youtu.be/PA5l-ZSHCsU)

Thrilled that Hyper is joining C100's Fellow Program this year.🍁 Proof was in the 2020 cohort & our core team joined me again last year to embark on our next chapter in building game-changing tech for govt: voice A.I. for 911 will reduce wait times & save lives!❤️

The 2025 Pitch to the Chief™ winner is Hyper! Led by Chief of Staff Manu Agnihotri, they take home a $30K prize for a game-changing solution in frontline policing. S/O to all finalists: Rubicon, Hyper, Monerus, Spectra Plasmonics, Standard Field Systems & InvisiGuard.

New week, new job posting! Hyper is revolutionizing emergency response systems through cutting-edge AI technologies. Our first product is reducing 911 wait times by alleviating administrative work from highly trained 911 telecommunicators.

AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 9-1-1 calls | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/ai-…

Today Eniac Ventures is proud to lead the $6.3M seed round for Hyper, now out of stealth with a voice AI platform built for non-emergency response.  Co-founders Ben and Damian are tackling one of the most essential and overburdened systems in the country: 9-1-1. Hyper’s voice

We raised $6.3M to bring voice AI to 9-1-1. Hyper is helping 9-1-1 agencies across the country, answering non-emergency calls instantly, in 30+ languages, with zero wait. ...and we’re hiring - come join us! More in Dom's TechCrunch story: techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/ai-…

We raised $6.3M to bring voice AI to 9-1-1. Hyper is helping 9-1-1 agencies across the country, answering non-emergency calls instantly, in 30+ languages, with zero wait. ...and we’re hiring - join us! More in Dom's TechCrunch story: techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/ai-…

Hyper’s AI can answer the phone when someone calls a non-emergency police line. trib.al/dohePLe

AI-powered 9-1-1 call screening startup Hyper exits stealth with $6.3 million USD. #CDNtech betakit.com/ai-powered-9-1…

The Hyper team was on-site to support Ride to Remember today as officers cycled 🚴 through Halton Police, honouring the dedication of those who make the ultimate sacrifice, putting their lives on the line every day to keep our communities safe. 💙