Wayfaster
AcquiredChesapeake, US · 1 known investors
Wayfaster built AI voice interview software, used to interview job candidates, and is joining voice infrastructure company LiveKit.
Founders & leadership
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Wayfaster is a company that built AI voice-based interviewing software. It began as a winter break project intended to help software engineers practice and improve at system design interviews, with an early prototype whose agent responses took about eight seconds and succeeded roughly half of the time. The first version was tested in late 2024, with the founders soliciting feedback from engineers over New Year's Eve 2024 while fixing bugs in real time.
The product grew from that prototype into infrastructure that, according to the company, was used to interview hundreds of thousands of people seeking jobs. The founders describe voice technology as improving rapidly and driving change in large legacy US industries such as recruiting, and identified reliable voice infrastructure as the main gap for widespread production voice use cases. Wayfaster announced it is joining LiveKit, a voice infrastructure platform whose product the founders had previously used as customers.
Founding story
Wayfaster started as a winter break project created by its founders to help software engineers prepare for system design interviews. The earliest version was rough — agent responses took roughly eight seconds and worked about half the time — and the founders spent New Year's Eve 2024 gathering feedback from anyone with software development experience while fixing bugs as responses failed live.
Traction
The company states its product was used to interview hundreds of thousands of people looking for jobs.
Latest developments
Wayfaster announced on its website that the company is joining LiveKit, working with LiveKit's Russ and DZ on voice infrastructure for production use cases.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, history
Market position
Wayfaster operated in AI voice applications for recruiting and interviewing, an area the founders describe as one of the large legacy US industries being transformed by improvements in voice technology.
Technology
Voice AI agents that conduct interviews. Early versions had latency of roughly eight seconds per agent response and inconsistent reliability; the company used LiveKit as its underlying voice infrastructure provider.
Go-to-market
The company's website offers a booked demo as the primary entry point for prospective customers.
Initially software engineers preparing for system design interviews; subsequently organizations conducting candidate interviews at scale, particularly in recruiting.
History
After launching an initial prototype around the end of 2024, Wayfaster developed its interview product into a platform the company says was used to interview hundreds of thousands of job seekers. The founders, Varun and Shreyas, had been LiveKit customers and first connected with LiveKit's Russ several years earlier; after spending time with the LiveKit team they announced that Wayfaster is joining LiveKit to continue work on bringing voice applications into production settings.
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Key figures
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsWayfaster announced on its website that the company is joining LiveKit, a voice infrastructure platform it had previously used as a customer, to work on production voice use cases.
The founders released a first version of the system design interview practice product and collected user feedback around New Year's Eve 2024, with agent responses taking about eight seconds and working roughly half the time.
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In the news
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primary sources listed
- Wayfasterwayfaster.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Wayfaster do?
- Wayfaster built AI voice interview software, used to interview job candidates, and is joining voice infrastructure company LiveKit.
- Who founded Wayfaster?
- Wayfaster was founded by Shreyas Jaganmohan.
- Who are Wayfaster's investors?
- Wayfaster's investors include Slow Ventures.
- Where is Wayfaster headquartered?
- Wayfaster is headquartered in Chesapeake, US.