DheeYantra
Bengaluru, IN · 4 known investors
Dhee.AI provides intelligent virtual agents with cloned voices and photorealistic avatars that handle customer interactions across multiple channels including web, phone, WhatsApp, and email. The platform operates as software-as-a-service with deployment options in cloud, on-premise, or fully managed service configurations.
Also known as dhee.ai · Dhee.AI · DheeYantra Research Labs Private Limited · DheeYantra Research Labs Pvt Ltd
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026DheeYantra Research Labs Private Limited, operating the Dhee.AI brand, is a Bengaluru-based company that builds multilingual conversational and agentic AI for enterprises. Its original product was a vernacular voice and text chatbot platform built on a proprietary natural language processing stack for Indian languages, allowing businesses to reach, onboard and support customers who speak regional languages across telephony, WhatsApp and other channels. At launch the platform supported nine Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam and Bengali; the company also built a vernacular optical character recognition system and an Indic transliteration engine.
The current positioning is a "Digital Employee" platform: configurable virtual workers combining a customer-designed photorealistic avatar that lip-syncs in real time, a voice cloned from roughly thirty seconds of consented audio (or stock male/female voices per language), an agentic planning layer that sequences multi-step tasks and escalates when uncertain, tool and system integrations for actions such as booking appointments, raising tickets, updating CRM records and taking payments, and a memory layer trained on company documents, catalogues, policies and past conversations. Stated capabilities include emotion detection, mid-conversation language switching, conversation logging for audit, custom performance reporting, and support for more than 12 Indian languages across five channels (web/chat widget, voice/IVR, WhatsApp, Telegram and email). Speech and language models are described as built in-house and run on the customer's dedicated instance.
The company is registered with ROC Bangalore under CIN U72900KA2017PTC099593, is recognised as a startup by DPIIT, and is led by directors Sreekumar Keezhanjilil Jairaj and Vidhu Bennie Tholath. Registry data records FY2025 revenue of ₹1.21 crore, up 10% year on year, and approximately 14 employees on EPFO records, while third-party profiles list a 21-50 headcount band.
Founding story
DheeYantra was founded in early 2017 by Vidhu Bennie and Sreekumar Jairaj, who set out to build voice and text conversational software for Indian vernacular languages using their own natural language processing stack. The corresponding legal entity, Dheeyantra Research Labs Private Limited, was incorporated on 2 February 2017 with the Registrar of Companies in Bangalore.
Business model
B2B. DheeYantra sells its Dhee.AI platform through three delivery models: a dedicated managed cloud SaaS subscription running on a dedicated RTX 6000 Blackwell VM at ₹50,000 per month flat including eight digital employees (with an additional team of eight for ₹40,000 per month); an on-premise Dhee Pro GPU appliance owned outright by the customer from ₹18 lakh one-time in S01/S02/S03 configurations supporting 10, 20 or 30 avatar/voice employees plus 15, 30 or 45 text employees, with 10% annual maintenance after twelve months; and a done-for-you engagement in which its cognitive engineering team designs and tunes digital employees at ₹1.5 lakh per month per engineer. Prebuilt role packages are sold as one-time unlocks and run on existing SaaS or Dhee Pro capacity. All prices are exclusive of 18% GST.
Recurring monthly subscription fees for dedicated cloud capacity, one-time hardware purchase plus annual maintenance for on-premise servers, one-time role-unlock fees for prebuilt digital employee roles, and monthly per-engineer fees for custom build and tuning services. The company states its own speech models mean no per-minute voice cost. Registry filings report FY2025 revenue of ₹1.21 crore.
Traction
The company states it is used by enterprises, financial institutions, universities and governments across India, and that Dhee.AI serves companies in Indian banking, retail, e-commerce and education. Registry filings show FY2025 revenue of ₹1.21 crore, 10% higher year on year, with roughly 14 employees on EPFO records; other business directories list a 21-50 employee band.
Latest developments
The company now markets Dhee.AI as an agentic "Digital Employee" platform with designable avatars, cloned voices and multi-step task execution across web, voice/IVR, WhatsApp, Telegram and email, sold in three deployment modes and including prebuilt roles such as Front Desk Manager, Clinic Appointments Manager, Society Gate Keeper, Business Development Manager and a Zoho Books accountant. Corporate records as of January 2026 show the entity active and compliant, with FY2025 revenue of ₹1.21 crore.
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Market position
Positions itself as an early mover in Indian-language voice AI, claiming to serve companies in Indian banking, retail, e-commerce and education. Third-party listings place it among conversational AI vendors alongside CoRover, Mindsay, Serviceform, Maruti Techlabs, Take Blip and Hutoma.
In-house speech and language models running on customer-dedicated infrastructure, so conversation data is not used for third-party training and per-minute voice cost is fixed; native support for 12+ Indian languages with mid-conversation language switching; agentic execution that completes multi-step tasks across connected systems rather than answering queries only; customizable photorealistic avatars and cloned voices; and on-premise deployment for data-localisation and regulatory requirements.
Technology
Proprietary natural language processing, speech and language models for Indian languages, together with generative AI, machine vision and character/avatar AI. The platform combines photorealistic avatars with real-time lip-sync, voice cloning from about thirty seconds of audio, an agentic planning and tool-calling layer, retrieval over customer documents and conversation history, emotion detection, mid-sentence language switching and full conversation logging. Models run on dedicated GPU instances (cloud RTX 6000 Blackwell VMs or on-premise appliances). Earlier technology included vernacular OCR and an Indic transliteration engine. The company states it owns numerous IPs in Indian-language voice AI.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by online self-service purchasing of subscriptions, servers and role packages through its shop portal, plus a services arm that builds and tunes custom digital employee roles. Prebuilt role templates are positioned for same-week deployment.
Enterprises, financial institutions, universities and government bodies in India and beyond, including customers in banking, retail, e-commerce and education. Role-based offerings target front-desk reception, clinics, residential society gates, business development and accounting functions, and on-premise deployment is aimed at organisations with RBI, DPDP and data-localisation requirements.
Geography
Headquartered in Bangalore (Whitefield), Karnataka, India, with the registered office at 201 Srimitra Springwoods, ECC Road, Pattandur Agrahara, Whitefield, Bangalore 560066. Customers are described as being across India and beyond, and earlier funding was intended in part to add language support for international markets.
History
Incorporated in Bangalore in February 2017, the company launched dhee.ai as a vernacular chatbot and voice platform and, by 2018, had extended it to nine Indian languages and added a vernacular OCR system and an Indic transliteration engine. In May 2018 it raised seed capital from CIIE, the incubation and investment arm of IIM-Ahmedabad, earmarked for sales and marketing and for additional language support in Indian and international markets. The product has since evolved from a conversational chatbot into an agentic "Digital Employee" platform with avatars, cloned voices and tool integrations, sold via cloud subscription, on-premise GPU appliances and expert services.
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Key figures
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Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsDheeYantra Research Labs raised an undisclosed seed round from the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM-Ahmedabad, with participation from Gopal Krishna, former managing director of Maxim India Integrated Circuits, and stock market investor Vijay Kedia. The company said capital would go toward sales and marketing and adding support for more languages.
Alongside dhee.ai, the company developed a vernacular optical character recognition system able to read text in documents written in various Indian languages, and an Indic transliteration engine that transliterates across Indian languages.
Incorporated with ROC Bangalore under CIN U72900KA2017PTC099593 as a private limited company; recognised as a startup by DPIIT.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does DheeYantra do?
- Bengaluru-based DheeYantra builds Dhee.AI, an agentic multilingual voice and text AI platform for enterprise customer interactions.
- Who are DheeYantra's investors?
- DheeYantra's investors include Hyderabad Angels.
- Where is DheeYantra headquartered?
- DheeYantra is headquartered in Bengaluru, IN.