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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Bland.\n\nSobhan Nejad co-founded Bland AI, a Y Combinator company building an enterprise platform for AI phone calls. Bland runs its own voice and language models rather than licensing them, and Fortune reported in June 2026 that it had raised $50 million.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sobhan-nejad-796129133\n- X: https://x.com/sobhan_nejad\n\n## What Sobhan builds\n\n- [Bland AI API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bland-ai.md), graded B, 63.9/100, in Conversational voice agents. Phone-first voice-agent platform that runs its own speech recognition, language model, TTS and telephony, billed as one per-minute rate. Co-founder, Bland, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Isaiah Granet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/isaiah-granet/), Co-founder and CEO, Bland\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Scale Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/scale-venture-partners/)\n- [Emergence Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/emergence-capital/)\n- [Max Levchin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/max-levchin/)\n- [Jeff Lawson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jeff-lawson/)\n- [HubSpot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hubspot/)\n- [Dell Technologies](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dell-technologies/)\n- [Upfront Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/upfront-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Sobhan Nejad?\n\nSobhan Nejad co-founded Bland AI, a Y Combinator company building an enterprise platform for AI phone calls. Bland runs its own voice and language models rather than licensing them, and Fortune reported in June 2026 that it had raised $50 million.\n\n### What does Bland AI make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Bland AI API + MCP from Bland AI. Phone-first voice-agent platform that runs its own speech recognition, language model, TTS and telephony, billed as one per-minute rate.\n\n### Who has invested in Bland AI?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, Scale Venture Partners, Emergence Capital, Max Levchin, Jeff Lawson, HubSpot, Dell Technologies and Upfront Ventures.\n\n### How are Sobhan's tools graded?\n\nBland AI API + MCP is graded B, 63.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.bland.ai/\n- https://www.bland.ai/about\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bland-ai\n- https://docs.bland.ai/welcome-to-bland\n- https://docs.bland.ai/llms.txt\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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