Guava raises $12.5M seed led by Acrew Capital for voice AI agents in regulated industries

Guava has raised a $12.5 million seed round led by Acrew Capital. Flourish Ventures, WillowTree Ventures and Clocktower Ventures joined, alongside existing pre-seed investor Commerce Ventures. The company did not disclose its total funding.

Based in Los Angeles, Guava builds its own voice AI models and a developer platform for voice agents, with an SDK for Python, TypeScript and Claude Code. Co-founder and CEO Omri Dahan is a former chief revenue officer at Marqeta; his co-founders are Anthony Scodary, Nico Benitez and Mike Piechna.

More than a dozen enterprise customers use its Daytona model, which handles tens of thousands of calls a day. The new capital goes to the models and products, a go-to-market team aimed at enterprises and business process outsourcers, and edge-device, on-premises and full-duplex voice capabilities.