About

We're building the conversational interface for everything.

Software has always been a graphical interface. The next generation of software won't be. It'll be conversation — voice, text, multimodal — happening seamlessly between humans and AI agents. Hania exists to make that interface trustworthy, fast, and easy to ship.

Our story

Built by people who built it before.

Our team came together after years of shipping production AI at Anthropic, OpenAI, Twilio, Stripe, and Apple. We spent a decade watching teams reinvent the same plumbing — orchestration, voice latency, tool calling, memory, retrieval — every single time they wanted to put an agent in front of users.

Hania is the platform we wanted to use ourselves. Voice that doesn't lag. Tools that anyone can build. Memory that respects scope. Compliance you don't have to bolt on. The version of an AI agent platform that takes both your customers and your CISO seriously.

2023
Founded in NYC
42
Hanians worldwide
$48M
Total raised · Series A
2
Offices · NYC + Berlin

Backed by
Sequoia
Index
Founders Fund

Principles

What we optimize for.

Latency is a feature

Every millisecond we shave off voice or chat compounds into a better customer experience. We benchmark obsessively.

For everyone on the team

The best agents are built by the people closest to the customer — not just engineers. We build tools that anyone can use.

Trust is non-negotiable

SOC 2, HIPAA, EU residency, audit logs — not optional add-ons. Customer data is never used for training, ever.

No vendor lock-in

Export your data anytime. Bring your own model keys. We compete on quality, not on holding you hostage.

Honest defaults

We make the right thing the easy thing. Hallucination-prone? We flag it. Cost-creep? We surface it. Bad pattern? We push back.

Ship, then measure

Most agent platforms ship demos. We ship things teams use to handle millions of real conversations every week.

Team

The Hanians.

A small, senior team distributed across NYC, Berlin, and a few other places.

AK

Ana Kowalski

Co-founder & CEO

Previously led product at Anthropic. Built Claude's first enterprise product.

RM

Rafael Mendes

Co-founder & CTO

Ex-OpenAI realtime team. Built ChatGPT voice mode infra from scratch.

JL

Jules Lin

Head of Engineering

Ex-Twilio (voice infra) and Stripe (payments orchestration).

DG

Diego Galante

Head of Design

Ex-Linear and Apple. Brought you Linear's command palette.

MO

Marc Olmos

Head of Sales

Built the GTM motions at Datadog and Notion.

PS

Priya Sharma

Head of Security

SOC 2 / HIPAA / GDPR program lead. Previously CISO at a fintech unicorn.

BN

Ben Nakamura

Head of Voice

Built the speech models at Cartesia. Eight years of TTS research.

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All of us

Engineers, designers, researchers, success, sales, finance — see careers.

Want to join us?

We're hiring across engineering, design, ML research, and customer success.