Vida Wins UC Award for Rising Star in Workplace Technology, Named a CRN Stellar Startup for Second Consecutive Year

Recognitions Highlight Vida’s Growing Impact Across AI, Workplace Technology and the IT Channel

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vida Global Inc. (NYSE American: VIDA), an AI agent operating system for businesses, today announced it won the Rising Star Award in Workplace Technology in UC Today’s 2026 UC Awards and was named to CRN’s 2026 Stellar Startups list for the second consecutive year. The recognitions highlight Vida’s growing impact across workplace technology and the IT channel as businesses and their partners increasingly adopt AI agents to manage operations and communications.

“Building a great AI agent is only part of the challenge. Businesses also need the infrastructure to deploy, manage and measure a digital workforce across their operations,” said Lyle Pratt, Founder and CEO of Vida. “That’s what we’ve built with Vida, and we’re proud to see our approach recognized by leading voices in workplace technology and the IT channel.”

Vida's AI agent operating system is production-ready, powering millions of interactions across thousands of businesses in healthcare, automotive, legal, financial services, home services and more. Vida agents operate autonomously at scale, navigating business software to complete workflows while engaging with customers across voice, SMS, email and chat. Built for fast deployment, the platform gives enterprises and service providers the infrastructure, visibility, control and compliance capabilities needed to operate a digital workforce at scale.

Industry Recognitions

Vida's recent industry honors include:

• 2026 UC Awards, Rising Star in Workplace Technology: UC Today recognized Vida as the winner of this award, which honors an emerging company making a significant impact on workplace technology and demonstrating the potential to shape the future of work.
• 2026 CRN Stellar Startups, AI category: CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, recognized Vida for helping solution providers and MSPs capture the AI opportunity with a platform to build and manage a digital workforce. This marks Vida's second consecutive year on the list, following its 2025 recognition in the Networking/Unified Communications category.

Vida was also named to The Fast Mode's 2027 Vendors to Watch list, which highlights technology providers expected to drive advancements in telecom in the coming year.

These recognitions build on Vida’s honors earlier this year, including being named 2026 AI Agent Product of the Year by TMC and 2026 Product of the Year by MSP Today.

To learn more about Vida, visit https://vida.io.

About Vida

Vida is an AI agent operating system that enables businesses to build, deploy, and manage AI agents capable of running business operations and communications. The platform is model-agnostic, orchestrating across Vida's proprietary technology and leading large language models and AI systems to deliver intelligent, full-stack agents across industries. Vida serves direct enterprise customers and a global network of resellers, agencies, and partners. For more information, visit vida.io.