Dmitry Vedenyapin is the co-founder and CTO of Peakflo, a Y Combinator-backed AI voice agentic platform. They last raised a $4.1M seed in 2022.

Peakflo is launching their voice agent platform soon.

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👋🏼 How would you explain your job to someone outside tech?

I help finance and sales teams stop doing boring, repetitive work by teaching computers to handle it instead. 

Think of it like having a really smart assistant that never gets tired of processing invoices, qualifying the leads or answering your customer phone calls, while at the same time organizing knowledge in ERP, CRM, file drives and emails—except this assistant works 24/7 and never makes mistakes.

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🧐 What's something about you or your job that would surprise us?

I spent my PhD researching how AI could diagnose venous diseases, but I've never actually worked in healthcare. 

The engineering behind building an AI applied to healthcare turned out to be exactly what you need to build smart AI assistants. 

Sometimes the most unexpected academic rabbit holes lead to the most practical solutions.

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🏆 What has been the biggest highlight of your career so far?

Building Peakflo from idea to serving Fortune 500 companies across multiple countries and secured major international clients including Hitachi and Ninjavan. 

What makes this achievement particularly significant is that we've validated our AI automation and voice technology in diverse markets—from Singapore's fintech hub to enterprise and insurance clients in United States—proving that our innovations can drive efficiency improvements globally.

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🔍 What's a startup trend or space you're watching this year?‍

Voice agents beyond SDR. 

We're seeing systems that can engage in sophisticated, multi-turn conversations while dynamically accessing databases, updating Slack channels, and managing dozens of parallel calls simultaneously. 

This isn't just about automating outreach anymore—it's about creating AI that can serve as a genuine extension of your team. Companies that master this early will have a massive advantage.

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💼 What advice would you give someone starting out in your industry? 

Now is the best time to start, we are in the beginning of the huge market shift, where a lot of processes and jobs will be fully automated by new smart agents. 

It’s the best time to build something new and brave.

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🗣 What's one thing you can keep talking about for hours? 

The evolution of human-computer interaction and how we're approaching the most fundamental shift since the graphical user interface was invented. 

I've lived through this transformation—from building console software in university, then building GUI interfaces, then building mobile apps that served 50+ million users at AirAsia, to now creating AI systems at Peakflo that can have actual conversations with users. 

We're moving from a world where humans had to learn computer languages to one where computers are learning to communicate like humans. 

What fascinates me most is that we're not just changing interfaces—we're fundamentally redefining the relationship between humans and technology

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🎥 What's your favorite movie/TV show? 

Silicon Valley on HBO. 

What I love about it is how technically accurate they manage to be while still being hilarious. The show matures quite well, as they were able to predict a few trends.

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🍨 What's your go-to ice cream flavor?‍

Hojicha ice cream.

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FYI. We've edited this interview for clarity.