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Bland AI
AI · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2023
A developer-focused solution for integrating AI phone calls at an enterprise level MoreLess
Bland AI, founded in 2023 by Isaiah Granet and Sobhan Nejad, operates as an enterprise platform for automating phone calls using conversational AI. The company emerged from the founders' previous venture, Intelliga Health, after a personal experience with healthcare communication inefficiencies highlighted a broader market need. Their journey began with a shared interest in software development and a drive to solve real-world problems with AI. Based in San Francisco, the company is a Y Combinator graduate and has demonstrated rapid growth, progressing from a pre-seed to a Series B funding round in under ten months.
The firm targets enterprises with high call volumes, such as those in healthcare, finance, logistics, and real estate, aiming to replace traditional, costly, and inefficient call center operations. Its business model is usage-based, charging clients per minute for inbound and outbound calls, with additional fees for features like voice cloning and multilingual support. Clients include prominent names like the Cleveland Cavaliers, Better.com, and Sears.
Bland AI's core service provides hyper-realistic, AI-powered voice agents capable of handling millions of simultaneous calls, 24/7, in multiple languages. A key differentiator is its proprietary self-hosted, end-to-end infrastructure, which ensures low latency, 99.99% uptime, and enhanced data security, including SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance. The platform features "Conversational Pathways," a proprietary scripting system allowing developers to build structured, yet flexible, call logic to guide the AI agents. This system integrates with clients' existing technology stacks, such as CRMs and ERPs, enabling the AI to perform real-time actions like scheduling appointments or updating customer records during a call. For enterprises, Bland AI offers advanced features including campaign analytics, model fine-tuning, and warm transfers to human agents.
Keywords: conversational AI, voice automation, AI phone agents, enterprise communication, call center automation, API platform, business process automation, customer service AI, sales automation, voice technology
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- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Employees
- 112
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 59.0
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Bland AI funding history
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| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERIES COther financing | Jun 2026 | $50M | $200M | Scale Venture Partners · Max Levchin · Emergence · HubSpot Ventures | ↗ |
| SERIES BOther financing | Feb 2025 | $40M | $160M | Scale Venture Partners · Emergence Capital · Y Combinator | ↗ |
| SERIES AOther financing | Aug 2024 | $16M | $64M | Max Levchin · Piotr Dabkowski · Scale Venture Partners · Y Combinator | ↗ |
| SEEDOther financing | Jun 2023 | $125K | $500K | Y Combinator | — |
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Latest recorded traffic for Bland AI is 180K monthly website visits, down 25% over the last three months. Bland AI's team grew 23.1% over the past year.
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