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Phonely

AI call centers

phonely.ai
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Overview

Phonely is a voice AI platform for businesses that turns phone calls into automated, measurable customer interactions. It builds AI receptionists/voice agents that answer, route, qualify, book appointments, integrate with business systems, and optimize outcomes across voice, chat, SMS, and API channels.

Primary product

AI voice agents / AI phone answering platform

Founded

2023

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

11-50

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Telephone Call Centers

Sub-industry

AI voice agents / customer service automation

Offices

San Francisco, California 94103 (HQ)

Business model

usage-based SaaS
enterprise software
freemium

Funding

Stage

Series A

Total raised

$19M

Latest round

Series A · Apr 2026

Latest amount

$16M

People & investors

Leadership

Will Bodewes

Chief Executive Officer

Nisal Ranasinghe

Co-founder & CTO

Nick Affolter

VP of Partnerships

Taylor Hayley

Founding Account Executive

Yonge Bai

Founding Engineer

Investors

7BC Venture Capital
Base10 Partners
Engage CX
Etech Global Services
TSA Group
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Research-driven and customer-obsessed, with a strong emphasis on shipping real-world voice AI for regulated and high-stakes call environments. Public messaging stresses high-impact work, AI researchers/engineers/operators, and rapid iteration on customer outcomes.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

Public job listings show salary bands such as $110K-$130K for Forward Deployed Engineer and $160K-$210K for Full Stack Engineer, plus equity; some roles are marked US citizen/visa only.

Product & market

Pricing

Freemium with subscription tiers and usage-based minute overages; enterprise pricing is custom.

Differentiators

  • —Sub-400ms response latency
  • —99%+ accuracy claims
  • —Custom fine-tuned models per customer
  • —No-code visual agent builder
  • —A/B testing for calls
  • —Warm transfers with context
  • —Omnichannel voice/chat/SMS/API
  • —Enterprise compliance controls (HIPAA/GDPR/SOC 2/PCI/CCPA)

Technology

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Salesforce
Google Calendar
Zapier
PostgreSQL
React
Python
TypeScript
Kubernetes
Docker
GitHub Actions
CircleCI
Datadog
Prometheus
Redis
Airtable
OpenAI

Customers

Etech Global Services
Engage CX
TSA Group
Lifelike Health
10,000+ businesses

Competitors

PolyAI
Retell AI
Bland AI
Replicant
My AI Front Desk
Aircall
VoiceSpin

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

~$5M ARR (2024 estimate)

Estimated monthly visits

25.4K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

hello@phonely.ai+1 844-734-4902

Latest news

Phonely Raises $16M Series A to Make Every Phone Call Smarter

Phonely · Apr 2026

Official announcement of Phonely’s Series A led by Base10 Partners; says the round brings total funding to $19M and highlights customer-investors Etech Global Services, TSA Group, and Engage CX.

Phonely Raises $16M in Series A Funding

FinSMEs · Apr 2026

Funding note confirming the $16M Series A led by Base10 Partners with participation from Y Combinator and enterprise customers.

Voice AI startup Phonely enters partnership with TSA Group

Business News Australia · Jun 2025

Covers Phonely’s TSA Group partnership, Australian deployment, and growth metrics including revenue momentum and customer volume.

Phonely’s new AI agents hit 99% accuracy—and customers can’t tell they’re not human

VentureBeat · Jun 2025

Profiles Phonely’s latency and accuracy improvements, including 99.2% accuracy and a customer replacing 350 human agents in one month.

How Phonely builds authentic voice AI agents

Twilio customer story

Customer story describing Phonely’s Twilio-based communications infrastructure, product origin, and no-code voice agent approach.

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