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Freya

Summer 2025 · Active

Voice AI for Enterprises

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 5

Founders

  • Tunga BayrakFounder

    CEO and Co-founder of Freya. Previously, he built VLMs for geometric reasoning and worked on Audio Transformers as an AI research engineer. As a Math Olympian, ranked 1st among 250,000 students at the Urfodu Math Olympiad and later 203rd Turkey’s national exams out of 3.5M+. At 16, he wrote his first paper on Quantum Machine Learning. Before dropping out of UPenn, he was a Teaching Assistant in the Engineering School and part of an AI Research team at Penn.

  • Tomas NepalaFounder

    Tomas is the Co-Founder and COO of Freya, where he is building human-like Voice AI agents for the financial services industry. A former Wharton student, he gained experience across multiple financial services firms, including Gallagher, the world’s second-largest insurance broker. Now on his second startup, Tomas is focused on transforming customer support by bringing it into the era of AI.