# Broccoli AI Secures $25M from Khosla Ventures to Scale Voice Agents for the Trades **Author:** Zero G Talent **Published:** 2026-10-24 **Category:** business-finance **Tags:** yc-hiring [Read on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/blog/broccoli-ai-secures-25m-from-khosla-ventures-to-scale-voice-agents-for-the-trades) --- [Broccoli AI](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/broccoli-ai) raised $25 million from Khosla Ventures in July 2026, backing the company's push to build an AI-native operating system for residential trade businesses. The San Francisco-based startup, which went through Y Combinator’s W22 batch, develops voice agents and operational software designed for contractors, plumbers, and home service providers. Alongside the financing, Marcelle Flowers—an early client through Armstrong Plumbing—joined the startup as Executive Industry Advisor and Chief Operating Officer, according to [Exchange4Media](https://www.exchange4media.com/industry-briefing-news/khosla-ventures-invests-25-million-in-broccoli-ai-155961.html). The company is now deploying that capital to grow its 21-person team across engineering, operations, and product roles in San Francisco, with a specific focus on expanding into adjacent service sectors. ## Voice Agents for Home Services Broccoli AI targets home services—a sector long reliant on fragmented field management tools, dispatchers, and manual office workflows. The platform functions as an AI-native operating system that runs dispatching, customer intake, and scheduling. Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer [Aditya Ketkar](https://zerogtalent.com/people/aditya-ketkar) describes the technical mission as "building voice agents for the trades." Rather than serving as a basic conversational chatbot, the platform handles inbound customer phone calls, diagnoses service requirements, checks technician schedules, and directly books appointments. To support customer onboarding and agent performance, the team is hiring roles such as [Head of AI Success](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/head-of-ai-success-94998) and [Customer Enablement Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/customer-enablement-lead-100862). ## Founded at BITS Pilani Broccoli AI was founded in 2021. Chief Executive Officer [Abhishek Jain](https://zerogtalent.com/people/abhishek-jain)—also listed across company filings as [AJ Jain](https://zerogtalent.com/people/aj-jain) and [Abhishek (AJ) Jain](https://zerogtalent.com/people/abhishek-aj-jain)—launched the company alongside [Aditya Ketkar](https://zerogtalent.com/people/aditya-ketkar) and co-founder [Abhishek Jalan](https://zerogtalent.com/people/abhishek-jalan). Jain and Ketkar graduated from the BITS Pilani Goa campus in the Class of 2016, where they first collaborated during a New Venture Creation course. Ketkar completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science at BITS Pilani. Jain began his career at Adobe and has spent nine years founding and operating startups, including mobile commerce platform Plobal Apps, as well as holding software engineering roles at Spotify and Omio. Bringing Flowers into the executive suite pairs the technical background of the founding team with direct trade experience. As an operator from Armstrong Plumbing, Flowers brings end-user domain expertise to guide product deployments directly inside trade businesses. ## Pushing into New Verticals With fresh capital in place, Broccoli AI is building out capacity to scale beyond plumbing into other trade markets. The company has listed 11 open roles, all based on-site at its San Francisco headquarters. A distinct cluster of these open positions focuses on market expansion and operations. The company is actively recruiting a [Senior Product Manager: New Verticals](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/senior-product-manager-new-verticals-100503) and a [Strategy & Operations Lead, New Verticals](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/strategy-operations-lead-new-verticals-94999). These hires will lead research, rollout strategy, and customer integrations as the platform adapts its voice pipelines to other service verticals. On the core engineering side, the company is adding systems and infrastructure talent. Open technical roles include [Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/staff-software-engineer-tech-lead-83232) and [Senior Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/senior-software-engineer-100502), tasked with building low-latency speech pipelines, workflow orchestrators, and integrations into legacy trade management software. Mid-market sales and customer success are also expanding to keep pace with deployment, supported by searches for mid-market account executives and operational leads. ## Open Roles at Broccoli AI All 11 listed roles require working on-site in San Francisco, with salaries ranging from $135,000 up to $300,000 depending on seniority and function. | Role | Location | Work Mode | Salary | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | [Customer Enablement Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/customer-enablement-lead-100862) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $135,000 – $170,000 / year | | [Senior Product Manager: New Verticals](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/senior-product-manager-new-verticals-100503) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $150,000 – $250,000 / year | | [Senior Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/senior-software-engineer-100502) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $180,000 – $300,000 / year | | [Head of AI Success](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/head-of-ai-success-94998) | San Francisco | Onsite | $200,000 – $300,000 / year | | [Strategy & Operations Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/strategy-operations-lead-special-projects-95001) | San Francisco | Onsite | $180,000 – $230,000 / year | | [AI Strategy Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/ai-strategy-transformation-lead-95000) | San Francisco | Onsite | $180,000 – $230,000 / year | | [Strategy & Operations Lead, New Verticals](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/strategy-operations-lead-new-verticals-94999) | San Francisco | Onsite | $200,000 – $270,000 / year | | [Senior Product Manager](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/senior-product-manager-94962) | San Francisco | Onsite | $150,000 – $250,000 / year | | [Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/software-engineer-94959) | San Francisco | Onsite | $150,000 – $300,000 / year | | [Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/staff-software-engineer-tech-lead-83232) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $250,000 – $300,000 / year | | [Account Executive, Mid-Market](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/broccoli-ai/account-executive-mid-market-77552) | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $160,000 – $300,000 / year | [See all open roles at Broccoli AI](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/broccoli-ai) --- *Source: [Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com), the job board for space, defense, AI, robotics and frontier-tech companies.*