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This Startup’s $100 Million Funding Announcement Went Viral—Because Toby From ‘The Office’ Delivered It

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17.06.2026

This Startup’s $100M Funding Announcement Went Viral—Because Toby From ‘The Office’ Delivered It

AI voice startup Bland turned its Series C funding announcement into a pun-powered commercial.

BY ALI DONALDSON, STAFF REPORTER @ALICDONALDSON

Want people to actually pay attention to your startup’s funding announcement? Try investing some of the money in hiring a quality creative team. That strategy certainly paid off for Bland, an AI voice startup building automated phone agents for enterprise companies. 

The San Francisco-based company, which launched in 2023, just raised an additional $50 million from investors, including Scale, Emergence, HubSpot, Dell Technologies Capital, and Upfront, bringing its........

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