telli
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About
telli, a Berlin-based startup founded in 2024 by Seb Hapte-Selassie, Philipp Baumanns, and Finn zur Muehlen, builds AI that runs customer-facing operations for B2C companies. The platform lets businesses build and deploy AI agents across channels, manage conversations, review calls, improve performance, and automate the operational work behind sales, service, and support — replacing legacy stacks of CRMs, call centres, tickets, queues, and dashboards 12.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-23 | Seed | $15M | redalpine | Cherry Ventures, Y Combinator, Mutschler, angel investors 123 |
The round brought telli’s total funding to more than $18.5M 13.
What Investors Say
“We’ve followed this space for quite some time and the telli founders are the most technically exceptional and complementary team we’ve encountered.”
— Sebastian Becker, General Partner, redalpine, July 2026 2
What Founders Say
No independently sourced founder quotes found at press time.
Sources
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Vestbee, “Berlin-based telli raises $15M to scale AI agents for customer-facing operations,” July 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://www.vestbee.com/insights/articles/berlin-based-telli-raises-15-m-to-scale-ai-agents-for-customer-facing-operations↩↩↩
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Osborne Clarke, “Osborne Clarke advises redalpine on USD 15 million seed financing round of AI-powered customer operations platform telli,” July 23, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://www.osborneclarke.com/news/osborne-clarke-advises-redalpine-usd-15-million-seed-financing-round-ai-powered-customer↩↩↩
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The SaaS News, “telli Raises $15M Seed,” July 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/telli-raises-15m-seed/↩↩