telli raises $15M to move AI agents beyond phone calls

redalpine led the seed round as telli expands from voice automation into a multichannel customer-operations platform.

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Why it matters

The round backs an application-layer AI vendor with named enterprise deployments. telli is betting that control of customer workflows, integrations and agent performance will matter more than owning the underlying model.

Illustration of telli combining a vintage telephone with chat, email and video icons to represent its move from voice automation to multichannel customer-operations.

Finn zur Muehlen, Philipp Baumanns and Seb Hapte-Selassie said on July 23rd that their Berlin-based startup, telli, had raised a $15 million seed round to expand its AI agents from phone calls into the broader machinery of customer service, sales and support.…

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