12-Year-Old Mana Jampala Launches Voxa AI Receptionist, Handling Hundreds of Calls
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Updated · Business Insider · Jul 8
12-Year-Old Mana Jampala Launches Voxa AI Receptionist, Handling Hundreds of Calls
3 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Jul 8
Summary
British Columbia-based founder Mana Jampala, 12, said her AI receptionist Voxa has already handled hundreds of calls since its November 2025 launch, though she is still seeking a first paying customer.
Voxa was built to stop small businesses from missing revenue when staff cannot answer phones; the 24/7 assistant can take calls, book appointments, log restaurant orders, manage missed calls and generate call summaries.
Jampala said she got the idea after seeing her father's workplace miss customer calls, then used ChatGPT and later Anthropic's Claude to build and test the product in small code snippets before moving to a custom backend.
Her age has complicated in-person sales pitches, pushing her toward online outreach and warm introductions, while some businesses still hesitate to adopt AI for customer-facing work.
Jampala, who became interested in AI at 9, is also building Voxa Agents and hopes to bootstrap for 1 to 2 years before joining an accelerator and eventually raising venture capital.