Round led by infrastructure software founder signals confidence in operational AI, not experimentation, focusing on the growing revenue opportunity for AI receptionists
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Newo.ai, the AI platform that turns customer conversations into revenue, today announced a $25 million Series A funding round led by Ratmir Timashev, co-founder of Veeam Software, and co-founder of OH.io.
The round brings Newo's total capital raised to approximately $32 million, following earlier angel, seed, and SAFE financings. Participating investors include Aloniq, Constructor, Acrobator, and s16vc.
Across industries, Newo has found that small businesses often miss 20–40% of inbound calls due to staffing constraints and after-hours demand, representing a significant and largely invisible revenue opportunity. While AI reception has become increasingly common, reliably solving this problem in live voice environments remains far more difficult than it appears once systems move beyond demos and into real-world use. When it works, the outcome is straightforward. Businesses stop missing calls, recover 20–40% of previously lost revenue, and deliver a faster, more consistent customer experience without adding staff.
Newo provides human-like AI voice and text agents that answer, route, and resolve customer inquiries across phone calls, SMS, web chat, and messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, built specifically for production use rather than experimentation. A partner-first business, the ...
