⚡ Bland AI, Pylon, Butlr, & Bridge

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New Funding, New Roles

🇺🇸 Bland AI

Series A - $16M; Investors: Scale Venture Partners, Y Combinator

What it does: Enterprise platform for AI phone calls.

Why it matters: Over half of people prefer phone calls with businesses, but each call costs US companies $3.00 to $5.00. Call centers, essential but expensive to staff, face severe challenges:

• High turnover: Jobs are tough, poorly paid, and repetitive.

• Costs: High training, onboarding, and recruitment expenses.

• Inefficiency: Agents often lack context or expertise for complex issues.

Open positions: UX/UI Developer - San Francisco; Support Engineer - San Francisco; Founding Product Designer - San Francisco; AI / ML Engineer - San Francisco

🇺🇸 Pylon

Series A - $17M; Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Y Combinator

What it does: Pylon is a modern alternative to Zendesk, designed to help B2B companies manage customer interactions across various platforms, including shared Slack channels, Microsoft Teams, email, in-app chat, and Slack communities.

Open positions: Product Designer - San Francisco; Software Engineer (New Grad) - San Francisco; Software Engineer - San Francisco; Product Support Engineer - San Francisco

🇺🇸 Butlr

Series B - $38M; Investors: Foundry Group, Pacific Alliance Venture, DNX Ventures, Qualcomm

What it does: Butlr is the world's first and only 100% anonymous people-sensing and occupancy detection platform. It helps enterprises globally improve workplace planning and optimize operations using body heat and advanced AI technologies, all without capturing any identities.

Open positions: Account Executive, North America - Remote

🇺🇸 Bridge

Series A - $40M; Investors: Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, Index Ventures, Haun Ventures

What it does: Payments platform using stablecoins to streamline global money transfers. Bridge offers faster, cheaper, and borderless dollar access compared to SWIFT and other fiat systems through its APIs.

Open positions: Blockchain Engineer - Remote; BSA/AML Investigator - San Francisco, New York City; Senior/Staff Software Engineer - San Francisco

Open Positions

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