Sudarshan Kamath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Smallest.ai, a San Francisco-based foundational AI research lab building real-time, full-stack voice AI infrastructure for enterprises.

An IIT Guwahati graduate in Mechanical Engineering, Sudarshan spent over a decade building AI products, including leading core AI perception for Level 3 self-driving vehicles at Bosch and serving as Lead Product Manager at Vakilsearch, where legal AI products served one in ten businesses in India.

Sudarshan champions an architectural-first philosophy in AI, arguing that the real challenge is not model size but rethinking how AI listens, reasons, and responds simultaneously, just as humans do in natural conversation.

Earlier in his career, Sudarshan was an Associate Product Manager at Toppr, contributing to the company's growth that culminated in a $150 million acquisition, and he has since channeled that product instinct into building Smallest.ai from the ground up.

Smallest.ai has raised over $21 million in total funding including a $13M Series A led by Seligman Ventures, counts RingCentral and Truecaller among its customers, and has grown to nearly 60 employees as it targets the $47.5 billion global Voice AI market.