Bland AI

About Bland AI

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Bland AI

All products by Bland AI reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

Bland AIAI Voice & Speech

Enterprise voice AI for phone agents that handle inbound and outbound calls at scale

From $299/mo7.9/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Bland AI

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Bland AI's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.8 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Bland AI competes with, and how they differ.

PolyAI8.0/10

PolyAI is a more mature, Series D+ enterprise voice AI company whose proprietary Raven model was trained on over a billion contact-center conversations, competing for the same large-enterprise phone-automation deals Bland pursues in regulated industries.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Parloa8.0/10

Parloa is a Berlin-based, Series D+ agent platform spanning voice, chat, and messaging with a visual Studio builder and simulation testing, competing directly for enterprise contact-center automation budgets against Bland's voice-only, in-house-model approach.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Vapi8.0/10

Vapi is a developer-first infrastructure layer where teams bring their own LLM, TTS, and transcription models -- the inverse of Bland's fully in-house full-stack approach built specifically for long, high-stakes regulated-industry calls.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Decagon7.4/10

Decagon leads with chat, email, and SMS support automation and extends into voice, whereas Bland is voice/phone-first, building its own speech and language models specifically for complex regulated-industry calls.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Synthflow7.3/10

Synthflow's no-code visual builder targets SMB and mid-market phone-agent deployments, competing with Bland at a lower price point and simpler use case than Bland's enterprise, custom-built regulated-industry agents.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Retell AI

Retell AI is a leaner, seed-funded ($5-14M raised) API-first voice-agent platform reportedly reaching $50M ARR in 2025, directly overlapping on inbound/outbound phone-agent building but without Bland's proprietary in-house model stack or enterprise regulated-industry focus.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Bland AI's history, with sources.

1. Jun 16, 2026Funding

   Series C -- $50M led by Dell Technologies Capital

   Bland raised a $50 million Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, with HubSpot Ventures, Archerman Capital, and Tribeca Venture Partners, plus existing investors Emergence Capital, Upfront Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, and Y Combinator, taking total funding past $100 million.

   prnewswire.com
2. Feb 3, 2025Funding

   Series B -- $40M led by Emergence Capital

   Bland closed a $40 million Series B led by Emergence Capital, with continued participation from Scale Venture Partners and Y Combinator, bringing total funding to $65 million roughly ten months after its Series A.

   bland.ai
3. August 2024Funding

   Series A -- $16M led by Scale Venture Partners

   Bland AI emerged from stealth with a $16 million Series A led by Scale Venture Partners, with Y Combinator, Max Levchin, and Jeff Lawson participating, bringing total funding to $22 million.

   thesaasnews.com
4. April 2024Milestone

   Still Hiring Humans? billboard goes viral, draws scrutiny

   A San Francisco billboard reading "Still hiring humans?" with a live demo call number went viral in late April 2024; Wired later reported the demo bot falsely claimed to be human and, in one test call, told a hypothetical 14-year-old patient to send photos of her thigh.

   wired.com
5. 2023Founded

   Founded by Isaiah Granet and Sobhan Nejad

   Bland AI was founded in 2023 by Isaiah Granet and Sobhan Nejad, going through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch before pivoting into AI phone agents.

   ycombinator.com