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Cresta

What Cresta does

Cresta is a private AI software company building “human-centric” customer experience (CX) intelligence and agent orchestration for enterprise contact centers. Its platform is designed to unify (1) autonomous AI agents that resolve customer conversations, (2) real-time AI guidance for human agents during live calls/chats, and (3) conversation intelligence that analyzes what’s happening in customer interactions and turns those findings into actions for both humans and AI.

Cresta’s go-to-market focuses on large organizations operating high-volume customer care and support operations (Fortune 500-style environments). Its products are positioned as a single “conversation layer” that sits across contact-center channels (e.g., voice and digital) and across the operational tooling used by enterprises, with the goal of improving outcomes like customer satisfaction, resolution rates, and cost-to-serve—while maintaining human oversight and enterprise governance.

News

Company record

Sep 08, 2026 · Official · Cresta (Press Releases page snippet)Marshawn Lynch Joins Team Cresta to Put Customer Experiences in Beast Mode

Cresta announced Marshawn Lynch as a spokesperson, framing the move as part of its effort to put customer experience “in beast mode” using AI.

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Aug 11, 2026 · Official · Cresta (Press Releases page snippet)Firstsource and Cresta Partner to Accelerate AI-Powered Customer Experience Transformation

Cresta announced a partnership with Firstsource to accelerate AI-powered customer experience transformation.

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Jul 29, 2026 · Official · Cresta (Press Releases page snippet)Cresta Launches Next Generation of Cresta Insights to Unlock Deeper, More Actionable Intelligence from Customer Conversations

Cresta announced next-generation enhancements to Cresta Insights, including Upgraded AI Analyst, Topic Discovery, and new Real-Time Trends capabilities.

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Jul 09, 2026 · Official · Cresta (Press Releases page snippet)Cresta Launches Training Simulator, Using AI Agents to Provide Dynamic Training to Human Agents

Cresta announced a training simulator capability using AI agents and simulated customers to help agents practice conversations grounded in real customer conversation data.

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Jun 25, 2026 · Official · Cresta (Press Releases page snippet)Cresta Announces Partnership with New York Mets To Optimize Ticket Services With Conversational AI

Cresta announced a partnership with the New York Mets positioned around using conversational AI to streamline ticketing operations and fan service.

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Jun 15, 2026 · Official · CrestaTELUS Digital and Cresta Partner to Deliver AI Agents and Augment Human Agents to Elevate Customer Experience

Cresta announced a partnership with TELUS Digital where TELUS Digital acts as a preferred implementation partner for enterprises deploying Cresta’s customer experience AI platform, spanning voice/digital AI agents, human augmentation, and conversation intelligence.

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Jun 11, 2026 · Official · CrestaCresta Launches Conductor, the Agent for AI Agent Development

Cresta announced Conductor, a developer-first agentic engine for building and optimizing AI agents on the Cresta platform using natural language grounded in real customer conversations and platform knowledge.

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May 28, 2026 · Official · Cresta (Press Releases page snippet)Cresta Synthetic Customers Give Enterprises Realistic AI Customer Personas Based on Their Real Conversations

Cresta announced a capability described as “Cresta Synthetic Customers,” positioned as realistic AI customer personas for agent testing and human agent training.

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Funding

Latest disclosed valuation$1.6B
Tracked capital$255M3 sourced rounds

What it builds

Cresta AI Agent

Cresta positions its AI Agent as an autonomous customer conversation system intended to resolve customer needs, with enterprise governance and guardrails; the company also announced scaling results for Brinks Home deployments in production voice use cases.

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Cresta Agent Assist

Cresta Agent Assist is described as real-time AI that augments human representatives during live customer conversations, delivering context-aware guidance, knowledge assistance, behavioral guidance, and AI summaries within the agent’s workflow.

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Cresta Knowledge Agent

Cresta Knowledge Agent is positioned as an agentic assistant that proactively delivers precise answers to contact center workers in real time without requiring the agent to prompt for every lookup, including connecting information to on-screen context.

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Cresta Opera

Cresta Opera is a no-code orchestration engine for designing and operationalizing AI workflows, including fine-tuning models, deploying AI workflows, and automating processes across CX use cases.

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Cresta Conversation Intelligence

Cresta Conversation Intelligence is positioned as the “conversation intelligence” layer that goes beyond basic speech analytics to include behavioral comprehension and the ability to turn insights into actions used to improve agent and AI-agent performance.

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Milestones & partnerships

Jun 11, 2026
Released Conductor for agent development

Cresta announced Conductor as a developer-first agentic engine for building and optimizing AI agents on the Cresta platform.

Cresta customers
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Apr 30, 2026
Reached $100M annual recurring revenue (ARR) and board updates

Cresta announced that it surpassed $100M annual recurring revenue and that Doug Leone was named Chairman of the Board, alongside Carl Eschenbach rejoining the board.

Doug Leone · Carl Eschenbach · Sequoia Capital
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Nov 19, 2024
Closed $125M Series D to scale human + AI agent platform

Cresta announced closing a $125M Series D round co-led by WiL and QIA with participation from multiple strategic and returning investors.

WiL (World Innovation Lab) · QIA · Accenture · EnvisionX Capital · LG Technology Ventures · Qualcomm · Workday Ventures
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Oct 01, 2024
Launched Cresta AI Agent (described as launched in October 2024)

Cresta described launching AI Agent in October 2024 as setting a new bar for automated customer conversations, including guardrails and adaptability.

Brinks Home
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May 19, 2023
Appointed Ping Wu as CEO

Cresta announced the appointment of Ping Wu as CEO, succeeding co-founder Zayd Enam after Enam stepped into an advisory role.

Ping Wu · Zayd Enam
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Mar 17, 2022
Closed Series C at $1.6B post-money valuation

Cresta announced closing an $80M Series C financing round with a $1.6B post-money valuation, led by Tiger Global.

Tiger Global · Genesys · Five9 · J.P. Morgan · CarMax · Zoom
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Mar 31, 2021
Closed Series B to scale Expertise AI

Cresta closed a $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Allen & Company, and Porsche Ventures.

Sequoia Capital · Greylock Partners · Andreessen Horowitz · Allen & Company · Porsche Ventures
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