Speko
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About Speko
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.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.