Phonely
AI Agents · Speech & Audio AI
16open roles
$175kmedian advertised pay
$16Mlatest round · Venture round · Apr 2026 · 6 mo ago
1backers · Y Combinator
Overview
Phonely is an artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2023. The company builds voice agents that answer and place phone calls for businesses, handling booking, qualification, and support conversations while connecting to calendars and customer systems. It targets service businesses and contact centres that miss inbound calls, selling the agents as a replacement for after-hours answering services.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 16 open roles at Phonely. Phonely is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It was founded in 2023. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $16M, announced in 2026. The median pay stated in its open roles is $150k, across 14 postings that state pay.
- Open roles
- 16Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Founded
- 2023Alion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $16MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
- Latest round
- Venture - Series Unknown · $16M · Apr 20, 2026Press report · pulse2.com
- Median advertised pay
- $150kPay stated in 14 open postings
- Technologies in its job postings
- 49Named in its job postings
Official records
How Phonely hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
76 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Phonely scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 16 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 76 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$16M
1 round on record
Latest round
$16M
Venture round · Apr 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
16
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Y Combinator
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
38/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 20
Raised a round Venture round $16M · led by Base10 Partners · Pulse 2.0
Jun 2024
Went through Y Combinator
2023
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Apr 2026 | $16M | Base10 Partners lead, Y Combinator | Pulse 2.0 |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Phonely, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
William BodewesExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$175k
Typical range
$65k – $350k
Open positions
14
12
Jobs
Junior
16.7%
Middle
25%
Senior
50%
Staff
8.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $120k | $90k – $150k |
| Middle | 3 | $180k | $170k – $220k |
| Senior | 6 | $250k | $100k – $350k |
| Staff | 1 | $150k | $150k |
Highest paying role
Senior Backend Engineer
$350k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Phonely
By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
66/100
Growing
Open positions
16
1 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 22% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+220%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Design
25% ▲
QA
13% ▼
Product
13% ▼
Management
13% ▼
Marketing
13% ▼
Sales
13% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added GitHub to stack
Oct 2026
Added Claude to stack
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Added Webflow to stack
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New location: Canada
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New location: Australia
Sep 2026
New location: San Jose
Sep 2026
Removed Rest API from stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Playwright to stack
Sep 2026
Added Cypress to stack
Sep 2026
Added Canva to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$16M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $16M | Details |
People
William Bodewes
Executive Officer, Director
Caroline Broder
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Phonely over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
49
Postings analysed
27
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Languages
Python37%
JavaScript37%
TypeScript15%
SQL11%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js33%
Next.js30%
Asyncio7%
Cypress4%
Databases
Redis30%
PostgreSQL7%
Cloud & platforms
AWS30%
Datadog30%
Firebase30%
GCP30%
AI & ML
LLM22%
Claude4%
LoRA4%
PEFT4%
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News
Phonely Launches Alma, a Voice LLM That's 63% Faster and 84% Cheaper Than OpenAI CustomerThink
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Phonely debuts Alma, a voice AI-centric LLM
Businesses need voice-based AI agents that can interact naturally, quickly and follow established processes. With Alma, Phonely seeks to meet those needs.
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Coval Launches the First Self-Improving Agents Powered by Phonely's New Alma Model CustomerThink
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Phonely: $16 Million Raised For AI-Powered Voice Agent Platform To Transform Business Phone Calls
Phonely announced it has raised $16 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to $19 million. The round was led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and several enterprise customers including Etech Global Services,
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Phonely cuts AI call response time by 70%
Phonely, Maitai and Groq achieve breakthrough in AI phone support with sub-second response times and 99.2% accuracy, enabling human-level conversational AI for call centers.
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Neural Notes: Phonely's US$500,000 boost sets the tone for AI receptionists
In this edition of Neural Notes: Melbourne startup Phonely lands US$500,000 from Silicon Valley accelerator, Y Combinator,for its AI receptionist.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
15 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 7% remote 50-200 est. staff $192k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Backend, Marketing
San Jose
United States
Regional office
105 North 1st Street Suite 1710, San Jose, CA, 95113, US
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