fonio.ai

Founded in 2024 by Daniel Keinrath and Matthias Gruber, fonio.ai develops artificial intelligence phone assistants that automate continuous customer communication, call routing, and appointment booking for small and medium enterprises. Based in Vienna, Austria, the profitable enterprise recently secured a €3 million angel funding round from notable industry investors including Daniel Gutenberg, Christian Stieber, Robert Wuttke, Jens Lapinski, and Sequoia Scout. Operating primarily within the European DACH region, the organization currently employs twelve people, serves nearly 4,000 corporate customers, and automates approximately 800,000 support calls per month. The innovative SaaS platform integrates directly with existing customer relationship management systems, automatically transcribing every interaction and processing voice conversations at a standard rate of fifteen cents per minute. This rapid operational growth has successfully allowed the initially bootstrapped company to generate approximately €300,000 in monthly recurring revenue.