Voice AI agents for mortgage sales and consumer lending
Sela (Sela AI, Inc.) builds voice AI agents for consumer lending, starting with mortgage sales. Its agents hold real conversations with prospective borrowers: they answer complex questions, build rapport, educate borrowers and hand engaged ones to a loan officer to close. Sela designs, runs and continuously tunes the agents for each lender and measures itself on borrowers reached, productive conversations and loans closed rather than minutes used. It says its agents help loan officers originate more than $1B in new mortgages a month, that six of the ten largest independent mortgage banks use it, and that it crossed $10M annualized run-rate revenue in 18 months. In published A/B tests it lifted lead-to-lock rates 9% (over 40% more lender profit, 10,000+ borrowers) and beat another voice AI vendor by 41% on lead-to-lock at a top-five servicer (7,000+ leads). Founded by CEO Nate Becker (co-founder of VoiceOps, ex-LinkedIn data scientist) and Vahe Tshitoyan (ex-Google senior ML engineer and tech lead), it is based in San Francisco with 17 full-time staff, planning 50 within a year. In September 2026 it announced $21M across Seed and Series A, led by Costanoa with Emergence Capital.
Fintech📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2025
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Sela going public?
No. Sela is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Sela's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Sela. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Sela filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Sela.
Who are Sela's investors?
Sela's investors include Costanoa Ventures, Emergence Capital.
How much has Sela raised?
Sela has raised $21M in total across 1 disclosed round, most recently a Seed + Series A (combined) of $21M in Sep 2026.
Is Sela publicly traded — can you buy Sela stock?
No. Sela is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for Sela on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Company Profile
CEO
Nate Becker
Founded
2025
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
17
Total Raised
$21M
Est. Revenue
$10M (2026-09)
Growth
$10M+ ARR run-rate within 18 months; $1B+ in mortgages originated per month through its agents; 6 of the 10 largest independent mortgage banks in production
Last Round
Seed + Series A (combined) — $21M (Sep 2026) · Lead: Costanoa Ventures
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Seed + Series A (combined) · $21M · 2 mo ago
privateTotal raised $21M1 disclosed rounds
Funding History
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Seed + Series A (combined)
$21M
Sep 2026
Costanoa Ventures
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Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
No verified Hugging Face organization found for Sela — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-11-05. Re-checked weekly.
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▲ Hiring uptrend
+14% vs 2026-09
Open roles
16
via ashby
Product-build share
50%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
expanding
product-led hiring — 50% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
No tracked executive churn; open roles trending up.
Counted from Sela's live job board as of 2026-10-30; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Nate BeckerVahe Tshitoyan
Investors
Costanoa Ventures · Emergence Capital
Products
Voice AI sales agents for mortgage lenders: inbound/outbound borrower conversations, education, qualification and warm hand-off to loan officers
Managed, per-lender agent design and continuous A/B-tested optimization, measured on lead-to-lock and loans closed
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of recent date. Refreshed quarterly.