{"slug": "exclusive-berlins-telli-raises-15m-seed-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-customer", "title": "Berlin’s telli raises $15M seed to put AI agents in charge of customer ops, backed by redalpine, Cherry, and YC", "summary": "Berlin-based telli has raised a $15 million seed round to deploy AI agents that automate customer operations, with backing from redalpine, Cherry Ventures, and Y Combinator. Co-founders Finn zur Mühlen and Philipp Baumanns founded the startup to replace manual customer service workflows with autonomous AI agents.", "body_md": "The obvious pitch was sitting right there. Finn zur Mühlen and Philipp Baumanns, who is now his co-founder,…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/exclusive-berlins-telli-raises-15m-seed-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-customer", "canonical_source": "https://techfundingnews.com/telli-raises-15m-redalpine-ai-voice-agents/", "published_at": "2026-07-23 04:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 04:53:59.096107+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-startups", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["telli", "redalpine", "Cherry Ventures", "Y Combinator", "Finn zur Mühlen", "Philipp Baumanns"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/exclusive-berlins-telli-raises-15m-seed-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-customer", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/exclusive-berlins-telli-raises-15m-seed-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-customer.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/exclusive-berlins-telli-raises-15m-seed-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-customer.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/exclusive-berlins-telli-raises-15m-seed-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-customer.jsonld"}}