# Retell AI

> Retell AI is a voice AI platform that lets developers and businesses build phone agents which book appointments, answer questions and route calls in real time with sub-second latency. Founded in 2023 by five ex-ByteDance, Google and Meta operators and backed by Y Combinator (W24), it reached roughly $50M ARR on just $5.1M raised, powering 50M+ calls a month - out-executing far larger, far better-funded rivals like NICE, LivePerson, Parloa, Botpress and Google.

## Achievements

- Reached ~$50M ARR on just $5.1M raised - roughly $10 of ARR per $1 of funding.
- Powering more than 50 million voice calls a month for thousands of businesses.
- Reached profitability within the first year of commercial launch.
- Delivered sub-second (as low as ~500ms) latency with natural turn-taking on live phone calls.
- Launched Retell Assure, one of the first automated QA solutions for voice AI.
- Named to Wing VC Enterprise Tech 30 (2026).

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Launched Retell Assure, an automated quality-assurance layer that analyzes every call with multiple models and flags failures with remediation recommendations.
- **2026-01** — Retell Assure available broadly as an add-on to usage-based pricing.

## Links

- Website: https://www.retellai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/retell-ai/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/retellai

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Last updated: 2026-08-07