Phonely - About the company
Phonely is a series A company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2023 by Nisal Ranasinghe and Will Bodewes. It operates as an AI-powered answering service for businesses. Phonely has raised $18.8M in funding from CoreNest and Base10 Partners, with a current valuation of $*****. The company has 2950 active competitors, including 329 funded and 111 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Dialpad, Observe.AI and Decagon.
Company Details
AI-powered answering service for businesses. The platform leverages a website URL to build a humanlike AI answering system. It connects to scheduling software, routes calls, and integrates with existing knowledge bases, providing powerful AI analytics and automatically extracting relevant information after each call.
- Website
- www.phonely.ai/
- Social
- Email ID
- *****@phonely.ai
- Phone Number
- +1 **********
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2023
Location
San Francisco, United States
Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$18.8M in 3 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$***** as on Jun 02, 2024
Ranked
48th among 2950 active competitors
Employee Count
34 as on May 31, 2026
Legal entities associated with Phonely
Phonely is associated with 1 legal entity given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
PHONELY, INC. CIN: 3386861 , United States, Active | Apr 04, 2024 | - | - | - |
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Phonely's funding and investors
Phonely has raised a total funding of $18.8M over 3 rounds. Its first funding round was on Jun 02, 2024. Its latest funding round was a Series A round on Dec 19, 2025 for $*****. 5 investors participated in its latest round. Phonely has 8 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Phonely:
Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 19, 2025 | 8722306 | Series A | 8310288 | 5388983 | 1991719 | 5107071 |
Nov 22, 2024 | 5607476 | Seed | 7251968 | 4650187 | 5167152 | 7844362 |
Jun 02, 2024 | 2828550 | Seed | 6217551 | 4652127 | 4001691 |
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Phonely's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileHere are the details of Phonely's key team members:
- Nisal Ranasinghe: Co-Founder & CTO of Phonely. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Will Bodewes: Co-Founder & CEO of Phonely. Contact Info: 1 email address
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Phonely's employee count trend
Phonely has 34 employees as of May 26. Here is Phonely's employee count trend over the years:
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Phonely's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Phonely include Dialpad, Observe.AI and Decagon. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Phonely, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st |  Dialpad 2011, San Ramon (United States), Series F | Provider of AI-powered contact center and unified communications platform solutions | $476M | 79/100 | |
2nd | Observe.AI 2017, Redwood City (United States), Series C | Provider of AI-powered conversation intelligence and automation for contact centers | $214M | 72/100 | |
3rd |  Decagon 2023, San Francisco (United States), Series D | AI-powered customer experience platform | $476M | 71/100 | |
4th | Forethought AI 2017, San Francisco (United States), Acquired | Provider of an AI platform for customer support and service teams | $117M | 70/100 | |
5th |  Respond.io 2016, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Series B | Developer of software for managing customer conversations across messaging channels | $71.3M | 70/100 | |
6th |  Poly 2017, London (United Kingdom), Series D | Developer of conversational voice artificial intelligence agents for customer service | $206M | 69/100 | |
7th |  EliseAI 2017, New York City (United States), Series E | Offering conversational AI platforms | $392M | 69/100 | |
8th | ASAPP 2014, New York City (United States), Series C | Provider of an AI-native platform for contact center customer experience | $400M | 69/100 | |
9th | Lorikeet 2023, San Francisco (United States), Series A | AI-powered customer support platform | $49M | 69/100 | |
10th | Gradient Labs 2023, London (United Kingdom), Series A | AI agents to automate manual and repetitive tasks | $30M | 68/100 | |
48th |  Phonely 2023, San Francisco (United States), Series A | AI-powered answering service for businesses | $18.8M | 60/100 |
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Phonely's Investments and acquisitions
Phonely has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
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News related to Phonely
Media has covered Phonely for a total of 3 events in the last 1 year, 1 of them has been about company updates.
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Phonely Launches Alma, a Voice LLM That’s 63% Faster and 84% Cheaper Than OpenAIBusiness Wire•Sep 01, 2026•Phonely
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Phonely Raises $16M in Series A FundingFinSMEs•Apr 15, 2026•Tsagroup, Etech, Phonely, EngageCX and 1 other
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Y Combinator backs AI-based virtual receptionist startup Phonely with $750,000Startup Daily•Jun 02, 2024•Phonely, Y Combinator
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