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Streamlining digital everyday interactions for enhanced user autonomy

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2024Home Living
Valuation $0–100M Latest valuation · 2026
Headcount <100 Current team size
Total funding $10–50M Disclosed equity funding
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About Simple AI

Simple AI, founded in 2024 by Catheryn Li and Zach Kamran, provides AI-powered phone agents for businesses and consumers. The San Francisco-based company emerged from the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch, securing $500,000 in a seed funding round from the accelerator. The founders, Li and Kamran, met and worked together for four years at Y Combinator, where they were involved in developing products like Startup School and the co-founder matching platform. Li, the CEO, holds degrees in computer science and math from MIT and previously led the software team for several YC projects.

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The company's core offering is an artificial intelligence assistant that automates phone calls for both enterprise and individual users. For businesses, Simple AI offers enterprise-grade phone agents that can be deployed to handle tasks such as sales calls, customer support, and lead qualification. The platform is designed to manage thousands of calls simultaneously, understand context, handle objections, and integrate with a company's knowledge base and CRM systems. Key features include the ability to navigate complex phone trees (IVR), perform warm transfers to human agents, and operate in 29 languages. Simple AI emphasizes data privacy and security, maintaining SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance and ensuring that client call data is not used for training its AI models.

For consumers, the Simple AI Phone Assistant, available on the App Store, acts as a personal assistant to handle routine tasks that involve phone calls. Users can delegate tasks like making restaurant reservations, booking appointments with doctors or dentists, checking store inventory, and contacting customer support. The service can wait on hold, navigate phone menus, and make calls to 33 countries in 15 languages, aiming to save users time on tedious communication. The initial idea stemmed from the founders' personal experiences and the realization that while many AI companies focused on enterprise solutions, there was a gap in the market for a consumer-focused AI that could handle the common dislike of making phone calls.

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At a glance

Status
Operational
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Employees
29
Open positions
9
Dealroom signal
90.4/100
Industry
Home Living
Sector
Home Living, Lifestyle, Core AI, Virtual Assistant, Generative AI, genAI Model Maker, genAI Applications, AI Model Maker, YC S24
Technology
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Recognition Technology
Business model
SaaS
Client focus
b2c

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Funding history

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Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
SEEDEquity / VC Feb 2026 $14M $56M Y Combinator · First Harmonic · True Ventures · Massive Tech Ventures
SEEDEquity / VC Aug 2024 $125K $500K Y Combinator
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Growth signals

Simple AI website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Simple AI is 31K monthly website visits, down 22.5% over the last three months. Simple AI's team grew 163.6% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits31K 3-month web change-22.5% 1-year team growth+163.6%
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Investors

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Global footprint

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4 countries with
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🇺🇸 United States83.3%
🇮🇳 India5.6%
🇫🇷 France5.6%
🇦🇺 Australia5.6%
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