# Speko

[Speko on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/speko)

Startup · 1 person on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://speko.ai/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=profile)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/speko)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/speko-ai)

## About

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## YC company profile

OpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech model

Speko is a router for voice models: one API key, and your voice agent runs on the speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models we measured as best for your language and use case. The measurements are public at benchmarks.speko.ai: we test new models the day they ship and re-route when the numbers change, so you rewrite nothing. We ran this bake-off by hand for four years at previous company, shipping production voice for Fortune 500s.

- **YC batch:** Summer 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 4
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** B2B
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Developer Tools, AI, Conversational AI
- **YC partner:** Tyler Bosmeny

## Founders

### Beknazar Abdikamalov — Founder/CEO

Founder and CEO of Speko (YC S26). Previously co-founder and CTO of Hupo (voice AI; $14M raised; backed by DST Global and Meta), where he spent four years shipping production voice AI for fortune 500s in 10+ languages. Earlier a software engineer at Amazon; MS in CS from UNIST, Korea.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdik/) · [X](https://x.com/beknabdik)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/speko) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Beknazar Abdikamalov](https://hacklab.so/beknazar-abdikamalov) — Founder/CEO (Present)

## Open jobs

- [Founding Head of Growth](https://hacklab.so/jobs/3b0d0205-91f0-5af5-89b0-c1b6f0fe3674) — Full\-time · On\-site · San Francisco, CA · $170K \- $190K · 1\.25% \- 1\.75% equity