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fonio.ai

Fonio.ai is an Austrian startup that built a human-sounding telephone AI capable of autonomously handling calls. It is GDPR- and EU AI Act–compliant, uses third-party LLMs (OpenAI), serves 6,500+ customers and 6,000+ companies daily, and is rapidly growing.

Locations
Vienna+9
Also Barcelona, Campinas, New York, London, Warsaw, Austria, Germany, United States, Remote
Team size
11-50
Founded 2024
Total raised
$3.5M
Seed · last round Dec '25
Salary range
$60–400k
+ equity · 9 of 91 roles
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About fonio.ai

Fonio.ai ist ein österreichisches Start-up, das eine Telefon-KI entwickelt hat, die wie ein Mensch klingt und Anrufe vollständig eigenständig übernehmen kann. Die Lösung wird täglich von über 6.000 Unternehmen genutzt, und das Wachstum verdoppelt sich derzeit jeden Monat. Die Infrastruktur wird bei Hetzner in Nürnberg gehostet, wodurch Fonio.ai eine der wenigen DSGVO-konformen Lösungen für KI-Telefonassistenten in der EU ist. Die Services basieren auf LLMs von Drittanbietern, insbesondere OpenAI; OpenAI wird in Europa über Microsoft Azure gehostet, um DSGVO- und EU AI Act-Konformität sicherzustellen. Das Unternehmen speichert ausschließlich notwendige Daten und kann auf Wunsch alle Daten in Echtzeit löschen; es zählt über 6.500 Kunden, und Kundenbewertungen finden sich bei Trustpilot, Google & OMR.

Culture & values

Transparenz ist uns wichtig.

Funding

$3.5Mtotal raised

Dec '25
  • Jun 2026 · Seed
  • Dec 2025 · Seed
    $3.5M

Company at a glance

Founded2024
Locations
Vienna, Austria ·London, United Kingdom ·Austria ·United States ·Germany ·Barcelona, Spain ·Austria, Austria
Websitefonio.ai
LinkedInLinkedIn

The team at fonio.ai

11-50 peopleSee everyone on LinkedIn

Alexander Brix

Country Manager Canva 🇩🇪🇦🇹, COO at Kaleido AI 🧠, and Angel Investor 👼

Daniel Keinrath

CEO & Co-Founder at Nano | Sigma Squared

David Jöch

Freelance Front-End & Mobile Developer

Edoardo Caccavale

Delivering Impact Through Innovation | Business Development and Innovation Strategy @ Opinno Italy | Corporate Innovation Strategy | Venture Building

Emanuel Morhard

🧭 metodic | TUM | ESB x NEOMA | START

Team breakdown

Team Distribution

  • Sales50%
  • Leadership14%
  • Operations14%
  • Other14%
  • Design7%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Vienna University of Economics and Business
  2. 2.FHWien der WKW
  3. 3.University of Cambridge
  4. 4.Technical University of Munich
  5. 5.University of British Columbia

Team Worked At

  • Avanade
  • Dynatrace
  • Philips Dictation | Speech Processing Solutions
  • Scoutbee
  • Magenta Telekom

Location

Team Composition

64 people
  • Sales9 senior30
  • Engineering and Technical3 senior8
  • General Management2 senior6
  • Consulting3 senior4
  • Marketing4
  • Customer Service1 senior3
  • Design1 senior3
  • Human Resources2

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