Bland.com, Inc., commonly known as Bland AI, is an AI SaaS company founded in 2023 by Isaiah Granet and Sobhan Nejad, alumni of Washington University in St. Louis. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company was created to address inefficiencies and high costs associated with traditional call centers. Bland AI develops an automated voice calling platform that uses hyper-realistic artificial intelligence agents to execute scalable and personalized phone interactions for enterprises.
Since emerging from stealth mode in August 2024, Bland AI has experienced rapid growth, successfully raising $65 million through multiple funding rounds up to Series B, supported by investors such as Emergence Capital, Scale Venture Partners, and prominent angel investors including Max Levchin and Jeff Lawson. The company serves enterprise clients across various industries including SaaS, e-commerce, healthcare, financial services, logistics, and education. Its AI-driven solutions include voice cloning, multi-language support, real-time call analytics, and extensive CRM and database integrations, delivered under a cloud-based subscription model with tiered and custom pricing targeted at enterprise customers.
Bland AI’s mission is to improve business-to-customer communication by automating high-volume, multilingual phone interactions, thereby enabling human staff to focus on higher-value tasks. The platform is designed for both non-technical users and technical teams via API, aiming to modernize and streamline enterprise call practices with advanced conversational AI capabilities.