SAN FRANCISCO — February 2, 2026. Auravoce, the AI voice agent that answers, qualifies and books inbound business calls, today announced an $800,000 seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from existing investor Nolqa and operators and early employees of Twilio, Zocdoc and ServiceTitan. The round follows a $350K pre-seed from Nolqa in June 2025 and brings total funding to $1.15 million.
Auravoce gives clinics, home-service companies, law firms and agencies a voice agent that picks up on the first ring, answers from the business's own knowledge base and books straight into its calendar — in 28 languages, 24 hours a day. Founded on January 1, 2025 after a prototype agent took over a single plumbing phone line in Austin, the company has grown to more than 4,800 businesses in 14 countries and now handles over 12 million call minutes a month.
"Sixty percent of calls to small businesses still go unanswered, and almost none of those callers leave a voicemail — they just call the next company. We built Auravoce so that never happens again. This round lets us bring that to every language our customers' customers speak."
— Michael Harrington, founder & CEO, Auravoce
What the funding will be used for
- 48 languages by early 2027. Twenty new languages and regional accents, with the same sub-second response time and automatic language detection customers rely on today.
- Outbound for every plan. Appointment reminders, no-show recovery and review requests — currently limited to the Scale tier — will roll out to Starter and Growth customers.
- A dedicated healthcare team. Deeper practice-management integrations, PHI-aware summaries and a faster path to a signed HIPAA BAA for multi-location clinic groups.
- Hiring. Roughly a dozen roles across speech research, integrations engineering and customer success in San Francisco and remote.
"Voice is the highest-intent channel most businesses have, and the least served by software. Auravoce's team combines real speech expertise with an obsession for the front desk's actual workflow — the booking, the note, the follow-up. The results their customers report speak for themselves."
— Partner, Sequoia Capital
By the numbers
Customers
Auravoce customers include dental and physiotherapy groups, plumbing, HVAC and roofing companies, law firms, real-estate brokerages and marketing agencies. Early customers report 30–40% increases in booked appointments, driven largely by calls that previously arrived after hours.
"Bookings went up 38% in the first month, and most of them came in after we'd closed," said Tom Reyes, owner of Northwind Plumbing in Austin, Texas. "It knew our price list better than the new hire did."
About Auravoce
Auravoce is an AI voice agent for businesses that can't afford a missed call. It answers on the first ring, speaks 28 languages, books into Google Calendar, Outlook and leading practice-management systems, and syncs every conversation to HubSpot, Salesforce and Zoho. Founded in January 2025, Auravoce is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more at auravoce.com.
About Nolqa
Nolqa is an early-stage investment firm backing applied-AI companies that serve small and mid-sized businesses. Nolqa led Auravoce's pre-seed round in 2025.
About Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with founders from idea to IPO and beyond.
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