Mana Jampala launched Voxa in November 2025 and is still working to sign her first paying customer, she told Business Insider, which profiled her on July 8 for its Young Geniuses series.
The idea came from her father's workplace. She was 11, sitting in an office where a small team was too busy to pick up the phone, and calls went ignored or unnoticed.
A handful of missed calls costs a small business little. Across a year, the lost revenue compounds.
Voxa answers calls around the clock, books staff appointments, records restaurant orders, manages missed calls and writes a summary after each conversation. Storyboard18 reported that she has since expanded into Voxa Agents, a second platform that builds AI agents from plain-language prompts, without writing code.
She started in ChatGPT, asking OpenAI's model for small pieces of code and reading each one before moving on. She switched to Anthropic's Claude when she found it more helpful, according to Business Insider.
