Funding · Wamda ·

HeyBreez raises $2.5M to power enterprise voice AI agents

MENA-born HeyBreez closed an oversubscribed $2.5M seed round led by Lunara Partners to expand its operational layer for enterprise voice AI agents.

Based on reporting by Wamda — analysis by dalili

HeyBreez, a MENA-born startup building infrastructure for enterprise voice AI, has raised $2.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by Lunara Partners, with participation from Jabbar Group, DASH Ventures, and angel investors.

Founded in 2025 by Karim Malhas and headquartered in Delaware with offices in Amman and Dubai, HeyBreez focuses on the operational layer of voice AI: deploying, managing, and scaling conversational agents for enterprises, agencies, and developers. The company says its platform now processes more than one million calls per month across MENA, Europe, the US, and Latin America.

The raise follows a $1.3 million pre-seed led by Wamda Capital in January 2026, and HeyBreez says the timing was driven entirely by market demand as call volumes and inbound requests grew. New capital will fund platform infrastructure, product development, team growth, and sales expansion across the Middle East, the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

The company's thesis: voice AI itself has reached human parity in recognizing and generating speech, but the infrastructure to run it at enterprise scale has not — most platforms get the agent talking, then hand back everything else.

Key takeaways

  • HeyBreez raised an oversubscribed $2.5M seed led by Lunara Partners
  • Platform handles 1M+ enterprise voice AI calls monthly across regions
  • Startup targets the operational layer behind enterprise voice agents
  • Follows January's $1.3M pre-seed backed by Wamda Capital

Why it matters

Voice AI is moving from demos to production, and the bottleneck has shifted from model quality to operations: reliability, compliance, and scale. HeyBreez's raise suggests investors see real infrastructure opportunity in MENA-originated startups serving global voice-agent workloads. For the region, it is another marker that MENA-founded teams can anchor themselves in the hottest AI application layer rather than importing it.

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