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As of June 16, 2026, Bland AI has raised at least $106M in equity across 3 sourced funding rounds.
Bland AI builds proprietary voice AI models and phone agents that automate inbound and outbound enterprise calls for long, complex, high-stakes conversations.
Bland is a San Francisco voice AI company that Isaiah Granet co-founded in 2023 with Sobhan Nejad.[1] It builds AI phone agents, and its platform runs only on voice models it builds in-house rather than models from OpenAI or Anthropic.[1] A typical Bland call runs 30 to 45 minutes.[1] Its core verticals are healthcare and financial services.[1] The company says it has about 100 people in San Francisco.[2] Bland said the new capital will fund research, a larger engineering team and expansion into more regulated industries.[1]
As of June 2026 it handled more than 3.5 million calls per week, had processed over 175 million AI phone calls the prior year and counted more than 250 enterprise customers, including Samsara, Kin Insurance and CNO Financial Group.[1]
Bland builds AI phone agents on its own voice models and raised a $50 million Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital in June 2026.
Bland builds AI phone agents for enterprise customers, with healthcare and financial services as its core verticals. Fortune reports that a typical Bland call runs 30–45 minutes, and in healthcare that can mean walking an elderly patient through a blood pressure reading, troubleshooting errors and deciding in real time whether to escalate to emergency services.[1]
Bland says it owns its whole stack. Fortune reports the platform runs exclusively on its own proprietary, in-house-built voice models and will not let customers plug in models from OpenAI or Anthropic. The about page makes the same claim and lists voice, the language model, text-to-speech and speech-to-text as built in-house.[1],[2]
Bland sells compliance as part of the pitch. Its enterprise page lists SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR and PCI DSS. Fortune adds a limit: the company offers self-hosted deployment for data-sensitive customers, but HIPAA compliance is gated to enterprise contracts.[3],[1]
Bland reports usage scale in two places that do not agree. Fortune says the company handles more than 3.5 million calls per week and processed over 175 million AI phone calls last year. The about page shows larger running counters, which this profile leaves out because they cannot be reconciled with Fortune's figures.[1],[2]
Bland was co-founded in 2023 by Isaiah Granet and Sobhan Nejad and is based in San Francisco. Fortune describes both as engineers who set out to build a phone agent that could stay on the line long enough to fix a problem.[1]
Bland has a personal origin story, according to Fortune. Nejad's aunt, unable to get through to her insurance company by phone, was denied access to medical treatment.[1]
Bland pivoted mid-Y Combinator in 2023, according to its about page. The page says 180 investors rejected the pitch with the same line, that phone calls would not exist a year later. Fortune's headline repeats the figure of 180 investors, and its text puts the rejections inside three weeks during Y Combinator.[2],[1]
Bland describes a thin early balance sheet on its own site: it bet $1 million on GPUs with $400,000 in the bank, and says it hit $2 million in ARR in four months after a billboard campaign. Those are company claims with no date or outside check attached.[2]
Bland closed a $50 million Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, which Fortune reported exclusively in June 2026. HubSpot Ventures, Archerman and Tribeca joined the round. Existing backers Emergence Capital, Upfront Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Y Combinator also participated, along with Max Levchin, ElevenLabs CTO Piotr Dąbkowski and Twilio founder Jeff Lawson.[1],[2]
Bland raised a $16 million Series A in August 2024 and a $40 million Series B led by Emergence in January 2025, per Fortune. The Series A lead is not named in the sources reviewed, and no valuation is disclosed for any round.[1]
Bland's total raised depends on the source. Fortune's subhead says the founder has raised more than $100 million, while the company's about page shows $50M+ raised. The itemized rounds in Fortune add up to more than $100 million, so the site figure looks stale or understated, but that sum is this profile's arithmetic, not a reported total.[1],[2]
Bland says new capital will go toward expanding research, growing the engineering team and scaling into more regulated industries. The about page also names Team Ignite Ventures as a participating investor.[1],[2]
Bland's about page names Isaiah Granet as co-founder and CEO. Fortune names Sobhan Nejad as the other co-founder, and the page shows about 100 people in San Francisco. No other executives are named in the sources reviewed.[2],[1]
Bland's Series C was led by Elana Lian, a partner at Dell Technologies Capital. She is an investor, not a Bland employee, and Fortune quotes her calling voice one of the hardest problems in AI.[1]
Bland counts 250-plus enterprise customers, according to Fortune, which names Samsara, Kin Insurance and CNO Financial Group. The enterprise page repeats the 250+ figure as a company claim. Fortune lists PolyAI, Replicant, Observe.ai, Retell AI and Cognigy as competitors chasing the same enterprise budgets.[1],[3]
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Bland AI is an AI infra company, based in San Francisco, California, USA, founded 2023 by Isaiah Granet.
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2026 | Series C | $50M | — | WithHubSpot VenturesArcherman CapitalTribeca Venture PartnersEmergence CapitalUpfront VenturesScale Venture PartnersY CombinatorMax LevchinPiotr DąbkowskiJeff Lawson | Fortune |
| Jan 2025 | Series B | $40M | — | Emergence Capitalunverified | Fortune |
| Aug 2024 | Series A | $16M | — | — | Fortune |
Equity only. “Equity raised” above sums the rounds with a dated, linked source; rumored rounds, tender offers and secondary sales are listed but not counted, and debt financing is listed separately.
Bland raised a $16 million Series A in August 2024 and a $40 million Series B led by Emergence in January 2025.[1] In June 2026 it closed a $50 million Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, with HubSpot Ventures, Archerman and Tribeca joining.[1] Fortune reported that Granet has raised more than $100 million in total.[1]
Bland AI raised $50 million led by Dell Technologies Capital to scale its AI voice agents that automate inbound and outbound phone conversations. The round rides the surge in enterprise demand for agents that can actually pick up the phone and complete tasks.
Bland AI raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital to scale AI voice agents that automate enterprise phone operations. Voice is becoming one of the most concrete, deployable surfaces for AI agents -- and a strategic investor signals enterprise pull.
Bland AI, which builds AI phone agents for enterprises, raised a $50 million Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, crossing $100 million in total funding -- a striking turnaround for a company its founder says was rejected by 180 investors. The round reflects surging demand for voice agents that can handle high-volume business calls.
Bland raised a $16 million Series A in August 2024 and a $40 million Series B led by Emergence in January 2025.[1]
In June 2026 it closed a $50 million Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, with HubSpot Ventures, Archerman and Tribeca joining.[1]
Bland is a San Francisco voice AI company that Isaiah Granet co-founded in 2023 with Sobhan Nejad.[1]
Bland AI is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, according to Bland AI.
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