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PR Newswire — Sela raises $21M
Sela, a voice AI system for mortgage sales, announced $21 million in funding led by Costanoa to expand its AI agents that help loan officers originate over $1 billion in mortgages monthly. The company has achieved $10 million annualized run-rate revenue in 18 months and demonstrated 9-41% performance improvements in lead-to-lock rates compared to existing systems.
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Summary
Sela, a voice AI system for mortgage sales, announced $21 million in funding led by Costanoa to expand its AI agents that help loan officers originate over $1 billion in mortgages monthly. The company has achieved $10 million annualized run-rate revenue in 18 months and demonstrated 9-41% performance improvements in lead-to-lock rates compared to existing systems.
Tags
voice-ai · mortgage-lending · funding-announcement · fintech · ai-agents · sales-automation · consumer-finance
Key entities
Sela (organization, 1) · Costanoa (organization, 1) · Emergence Capital (organization, 1) · Nate Becker (person, 1) · Vahe Tshitoyan (person, 1) · David Cheng (person, 0.95) · VoiceOps (organization, 0.9) · LinkedIn (organization, 0.95) · Google (organization, 0.95) · San Francisco (location, 1) · voice-AI-agents (concept, 0.95) · lead-to-lock-conversion (concept, 0.9) · Series A Funding (event, 0.95)
Classification
reference · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 28 Sep 2026