Phonely
phonely.ai
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AI Agents
Speech & Audio AI
Conversational AI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$16M
1 round on record
Latest round
$16M
Venture round · Apr 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
18
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Y Combinator
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
52/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
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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How Phonely hires
Truth index
C 60/100
Ghost roles
67%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Phonely scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 18 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 67% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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
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.
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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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
47
Postings analysed
23
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Languages
Python43%
JavaScript39%
TypeScript17%
SQL13%
Frameworks & libraries
Next.js35%
React.js35%
Asyncio9%
Cypress4%
Databases
Redis35%
PostgreSQL9%
Cloud & platforms
AWS35%
Datadog35%
Firebase35%
GCP35%
AI & ML
LLM26%
LoRA4%
PEFT4%
QLoRA4%
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Full Phonely tech stack
47 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$180k
Typical range
$90k – $350k
Open positions
9
8
Jobs
Junior
12.5%
Middle
37.5%
Senior
37.5%
Staff
12.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $150k | $150k |
| Middle | 3 | $180k | $170k – $180k |
| Senior | 3 | $260k | $250k – $350k |
| Staff | 1 | $150k | $150k |
Highest paying role
Senior Backend Engineer
$350k
Normalized to USD per year
People
William Bodewes
Executive Officer, Director
Caroline Broder
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
72/100
Growing
Open positions
18
3 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
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.
Backend
27% ▼
AI/ML
9% ▼
DevOps
9% ▼
QA
9% ▲
Product
9% ▲
HR
9% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Canada
Sep 2026
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
Added Zapier to stack
Sep 2026
Added Voice Agents to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
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
16 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50-200 est. staff $198k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Backend, Marketing
San Jose
United States
Regional office
105 North 1st Street Suite 1710, San Jose, CA, 95113, US
Jobs
≈ $88k – $208k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Canada
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
QA
Cypress
Playwright
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≈ $160k – $310k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
LLM
Apply
In office • Full-Time • PhD • Australia
Python
LoRA
vLLM
Fine-tuning
RLHF
AI Agents
NLP
PEFT
QLoRA
LLM
Synthetic Data
DPO
SFT
GRPO
Machine Learning
Apply
In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Redis
Supabase
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
Firebase
DevOps
GCP
Datadog
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
$120k – $180k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
AI Agents
Mobile
Twilio
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≈ $194k – $358k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Redis
Supabase
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
Firebase
DevOps
GCP
Datadog
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
$200k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
SQL
Asyncio
Databases
Redis
Supabase
AI/ML
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
Firebase
DevOps
GCP
Datadog
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
$180k – $260k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
PostgreSQL
Redis
Supabase
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
Firebase
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
CloudFormation
Datadog
Pulumi
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
Git
AWS
Kubernetes
IAM
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
Web3
Rollup
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Financials
Total raised
$16M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $16M | Details |