AI Takes Over the Phones with Bland AI’s $16M Funding

The days of endless phone tag, missed calls, and frustrating elevator music hold queues are coming to an end. As businesses worldwide grapple with outdated telecommunication practices, one company is stepping up to revolutionize the way enterprises handle their most relied-upon yet antiquated tool: the phone call.  Bland AI is a platform designed to replace human voices with lifelike AI agents that can handle seamless, intelligent, and efficient phone conversations on a large scale. Bland AI, emerging from stealth today, has secured a $16 million Series A funding round led by Scale Venture Partners. This latest round brings the company’s total funding to $22 million, with additional backing from prominent investors including Y Combinator, Max Levchin (founder of PayPal), Piotr