Berlin’s telli raises $15M seed to put AI agents in charge of customer ops, backed by redalpine, Cherry, and YC

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.

The obvious pitch was sitting right there. Finn zur Mühlen and Philipp Baumanns, who is now his co-founder,…