Flai Secures Additional Seed Funding From Toyota Ventures to Standardize AI-Native Dealerships

Today, we are excited to announce that Flai, the AI-native communication platform for the automotive industry, has extended its seed round to $6 million. This extension includes new investment from Toyota Ventures and a group of strategic angels, who join our existing partners at First Round Capital, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Innovation Endeavors.

Their participation validates our thesis that the dealership of the future runs communications on autopilot, freeing teams to focus on what happens inside the store. Dealerships need an AI-native platform that handles every customer interaction before they even walk in the door. 

“The automotive retail landscape is undergoing a massive transformation, and Flai is at the forefront of how dealerships are operating in an AI-first world,” said Jim Adler, founder and general partner at Toyota Ventures. “Flai’s power to turn complex customer interactions into seamless, high-ROI outcomes is a game-changer. We are thrilled to support the team as they scale to become the intelligent communication layer for the modern dealership.”

The numbers in three months.

In the past three months, since announcing our Seed round of funding, our usage has grown over 20x. We now handle thousands of calls every day. We're generating over $30k in monthly profit for most of our customers’ locations, with some seeing up to 40x ROI.

But the real signal came from how dealers started using Flai. They expanded beyond after-hours capture to overflow calls. And now, our customers have deployed AI for all calls, recall campaigns, service reminders, and sales follow-ups.

From point solution to platform.

We started by automating phone calls. Now we're being used across the dealership.

For service departments, Flai doesn't just answer the phone—we're the platform service advisors actually use, cutting follow-up time from days to minutes. 

For sales, we've built an AI sales representative that automatically engages every lead your team hasn't touched, with personalized outreach that drives walk-ins.

Every inbound call, every outbound follow-up, every SMS, every email—handled by AI that learns your workflows, remembers every customer, and never misses an opportunity. The human team can therefore focus on what they enjoy most: closing deals and delivering service in person.

That's the platform we're building. And it's why dealers across the country are now routing their entire communication stack through Flai.

AI doesn't replace the human touch. It creates more space for it.

This additional funding allows us to greatly accelerate product development. Dealerships that embrace AI-native operations now will set the standard for the industry, and will grow more quickly than all of their competition.

We're not just helping dealers answer more calls. We're rebuilding how dealerships communicate with customers, and proving that AI doesn't replace the human touch. It creates more space for it.

AI-powered communication isn't optional for dealerships anymore. It's the new standard.
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