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Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to

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Equal AI, a Hyderabad-based company that offers an AI-powered call-screening app, secured a $30 million Series B financing round. The round was led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital. The funding will support the service that filters spam calls for Indian users, who typically receive around twenty unwanted calls each week.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- TechCrunch·Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to
- TechMeme·Hyderabad, India-based Equal AI, which makes an eponymous AI-powered call screening app, raised a $30M Series B led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- The Next Web·Equal AI raised $30M to screen phone calls for Indians who get 20 spam calls a week
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