Bland, which uses proprietary, in-house-built voice models to process calls for 250+ enterprise clients, raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/06/16/voice-ai-bland-50-million-after-being-rejected-by-180-investors/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260616/i28.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260616/p28#a260616p28" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Lily Mae Lazarus / <a href="http://www.fortune.com/">Fortune</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/06/16/voice-ai-bland-50-million-after-being-rejected-by-180-investors/">Bland, which uses proprietary, in-house-built voice models to process calls for 250+ enterprise clients, raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Isaiah Granet was rejected by 180 investors in three weeks during Y Combinator.&nbsp; Their reason: phone calls won't exist in a year.</p>