Bland Raises Funds to Advance Voice AI

Voice artificial intelligence company Bland has raised $50 million in series C funding from Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from HubSpot Ventures, Archerman Capital, Tribeca Venture Partners, Emergence Capital, Upfront Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Max Levchin, Piotr Dabkowski, and Jeff Lawson. With this round, Bland's total capital raise totaled more than $100 million.

Bland develops its own voice AI models in-house. These systems are designed to take on long, unpredictable, high-stakes conversations that short calls, scripts, and phone trees cannot handle.

"Most voice AI systems are built for simple interactions," said Isaiah Granet, CEO and co-founder of Bland, in a statement. "We are focused on the calls that are hardest to automate: the ones that are long, non-linear, and where things can go wrong at any point."

Bland replaces rigid scripts with models that track context across long conversations, adapt in real time, and carry interactions from start to finish. Because those models are built in-house, the company can optimize directly for the constraints of voice, including latency, interruption, ambiguity, and continuity. These are treated as core system requirements, not edge cases.

"Voice is its own domain," Granet said. "If you want to handle these kinds of calls, you have to build specifically for it."

With this new funding, Bland will expand its research , grow its engineering team, and continue scaling its platform across industries where conversations are central to operations.

"Voice is one of the hardest problems in AI, and Bland is one of the few companies tackling it at the level required for real-world deployment," said Elana Lian, a partner at Dell Technologies Capital, in a statement "Their decision to build models in-house and focus on complex, high-stakes interactions has positioned them ahead of the market."