Retell AI

The problem

Call centers pay large human teams for routine sales and support calls that phone trees can't handle

What they do

Platform to build, test, deploy and monitor AI voice agents for call centers

Traction $80M ARR (Sep 2026), up from ~$5M at start of 2025; profitable on $5M raised

Hiring trend

Open roles: 28
Ops roles: 4
Headcount: ~50 core (company); ~175 on LinkedIn

LinkedIn headcount ~177, +22% in 90 days (AI Index); core team 25 → 50 since Nov 2025

Hiring in

SF Bay Area
South Africa
Brazil
Remote

Latest news

Sep 2026

Crossed $80M annualized revenue, doubling in under a year ↗

Glassdoor

4.5 ★ 2 reviews ↗

Funding

Last round: $4.6M
Stage: Seed
Date: Aug 2024

Led by Alt Capital

Distance

Half · edge: hard to leave

A top voice-agent platform by revenue ($80M ARR, profitable, thousands of businesses, 2,600+ G2 reviews, Brex #4 fastest-growing vendor of 2025) with forward-deployed teams embedding it in call-center workflows; ElevenLabs, Vapi and Sierra/Decagon contest the same buyers.

Sources: Retell AI: About us milestones ($40M Nov 2025, $80M Sep 2026, Brex ranking) ↗ · Sacra: Retell AI at $60M/yr, up 650% YoY (May 2026) ↗ · GlobeNewswire: Retell named to Wing VC Enterprise Tech 30 (Apr 2026) ↗

Watch-outs

Watch-outs (no score impact): Nov 2025 CERT/CC note says its API lacks guardrails against phishing-call abuse (same note names Vapi, Bland, Synthflow, Lindy); 2026 customer forum complaints about toll-fraud bills; recent Glassdoor interview reviews poor.

Sources: CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#649739 (Nov 2025) ↗ · Retell community: toll fraud victim complaint (Feb 2026) ↗ · Retell community: IRSF fraud refund request (Jul 2026) ↗ · Glassdoor: Retell AI interview reviews ↗

Open ops roles · 4

Leadership

Funding historyTotal raised ~$5.1M (CB Insights, incl. YC pre-seed)

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