Dialpad, the communication and collaboration platform, announced the expansion of its software engineering team in India. The move comes as a bid to intensify its focus on the research and development of Voice Intelligence, an AI technology that helps drive features such as automated note-taking, sentiment tracking, and transcription analysis.

The announcement comes on the heels of its USD 10 million extended Series E funding round and a year in which it expanded its employee base by 50%.  With more than 70 employees across India (10% of Dialpad’s employee base) working remotely and in its Bangalore office, Dialpad aims to hire 50 new engineers within the next 12 months. The team in India will focus on Dialpad conferencing capabilities, product integrations, and cloud platform infrastructure.  

Dialpad offers an array of products that covers the full range of modern business communications needs. Craig Walker, one of the company's co-founders, sold his telephone management startup, GrandCentral, to Google and went on to build Google Voice. The company's solutions include voice, video, group messaging, SMS, MMS, conferencing, screen-sharing, and document-sharing services that enable employees to collaborate securely from anywhere across any device.