The problem
Businesses miss calls and lose sales because call centers are costly, slow and churn 40% of staff a year
What they do
AI phone agents that answer, qualify, book and sell on business calls
Traction ~$8M ARR (est., Tracxn); 10,000+ businesses, millions of calls a month; 3 customers invested
Hiring trend
- Open roles
- 19
- Ops roles
- 4
- Headcount
- ~35-47
Team +144% YoY (Dealroom, ~44); open roles 7 → 19 on Ashby since mid-2026
Hiring in
- San Francisco
- Canada
Funding
- Last round
- $16M
- Stage
- Series A
- Date
- Apr 2026
Led by Base10 Partners
- Hiring+1.519 open roles on the live job board (10–29 roles = +1.5)
- Funding recency+1.5Series A · $16M, Apr 2026 (6 months ago): 6 months or less = +1.5
- Traction+0.75Some growth: ~$8M ARR (est., Tracxn); 10,000+ businesses, millions of calls a month; 3 customers invested
- Red flags0None found in the last 24 months
- Total3.751.5 + 1.5 + 0.75 − 0 = 3.75 → Tempo (3.5–4.24)
Distance (10K) is a separate read on how long the lead can last. It doesn't change the score.
Distance
10K · edge: learns from use
Real adoption (one customer runs 60,000 calls a day) and its own call-trained model, Alma, give it a data edge, but it is a small follower in a crowded voice-agent field behind Retell, Vapi, ElevenLabs, Sierra and Decagon.
Sources: Phonely: $16M Series A led by Base10, customers invested (Apr 2026) ↗ · Business Wire via StreetInsider: Phonely launches Alma voice LLM (Sep 2026) ↗ · Dealroom: Phonely profile (team +144% YoY) ↗
Last checked Oct 25, 2026