Speechify today announced a partnership with Fundwell, a company rebuilding how small and medium-sized businesses access capital, to bring SIMBA Voice Agents into the business lending process. The partnership pairs Speechify's voice AI technology, already trusted by more than 60 million consumer users across more than 270 countries, with Fundwell's lending infrastructure to give small business owners a more accessible, conversational way to navigate financing.
Fundwell has provided more than one billion dollars in loans to help small and medium-sized businesses across America get off the ground and grow. Through this partnership, Fundwell is integrating SIMBA Voice Agents into Nebula, its broader AI ecosystem built to bring intelligence into every layer of the funding journey.
Why Fundwell Chose Voice Agents for Business Lending
Sruli Anatian, Founder and CEO of Fundwell, has been focused on reimagining how businesses access financing in the AI era. Financing has always involved more than data. It requires conversation, coordination, timing, and trust, and Anatian saw an opportunity to bring those qualities into an AI-powered experience available to business owners around the clock.
"Financing has always been about more than data. It is conversation, coordination, timing, and trust," said Anatian. "Together with Speechify, we are building AI voice agents that can understand where a business owner is in the funding journey, coordinate across merchants, brokers, and lenders, identify what is needed next, and help move the deal toward the best available financing outcome. Our goal is to put a smarter financing experience directly in the hands of every business owner, while giving our team the tools to move with the power of thousands of brokers behind them."
For a category like small business lending, where applicants often have urgent timing needs and limited patience for slow, opaque processes, the ability to get immediate, informed guidance at any hour changes what the experience can feel like. The partnership is designed so that 24/7, any business owner can get the best loan for their needs and have a voice agent walk them through the process from start to finish.
How Speechify's Voice Technology Powers the Partnership
Speechify is the world's largest consumer voice AI platform, serving more than 60 million users across more than 270 countries with natural-sounding voice technology in more than 60 languages. That same underlying voice technology, refined over years of consumer-scale deployment, now powers SIMBA Voice Agents, Speechify's enterprise platform for businesses deploying conversational AI agents.
"We have spent years perfecting voice AI that millions rely on every day in our consumer platform," said Cliff Weitzman, Founder and CEO of Speechify. "Those same models now power SIMBA Voice Agents, our new platform built for businesses. Through this partnership, Speechify's voice agents will help small business owners navigate the funding process more seamlessly, making a complex, high-stakes experience feel simpler and more human."
What the Voice Agents Will Do
The AI voice agents being built through this partnership are designed to operate across the entire funding journey, not just a single point in the process. This includes proactive outreach when an application needs attention, real-time answers to merchant questions, and 24/7 availability that keeps deals moving toward funding rather than stalling while a business owner waits for a callback during business hours.
The agents are built to understand where a business owner stands in their funding journey, coordinate communication across the multiple parties involved in a typical small business loan including merchants, brokers, and lenders, identify what information or steps are needed next, and help guide the deal toward the most suitable financing outcome available. Voice agents capable of handling routine coordination, status updates, and information gathering free up human team members to focus on the parts of the lending process that require judgment and relationship management.
For business owners, the experience is designed to feel less like navigating a bureaucratic loan application and more like having a knowledgeable advisor available any time they need one. Questions about application status, required documentation, or next steps can be answered immediately rather than requiring a callback or an email exchange that stretches over days.
Fundwell's Nebula AI Ecosystem and the AI Innovation Internship
The voice agents developed with Speechify are part of Nebula, Fundwell's broader AI ecosystem built to bring intelligence into every layer of the funding journey. Fundwell built its AI Innovation Internship program to put real, ambitious problems in front of early-career builders, and the current internship cohort has been working alongside Speechify's team and Fundwell's engineers to help design and build the voice agents. Anatian specifically recognized the internship cohort, Fundwell's engineering team, and the Speechify SIMBA team for their work on the collaboration.
What This Partnership Signals for AI in Financial Services
The Fundwell partnership reflects a broader pattern in how voice AI is being adopted across regulated, high-trust industries where conversations have historically required a human on the other end of the line. Business lending is defined by complexity, urgency, and a need for trust between the borrower and the institution extending credit.
What Fundwell and Speechify are building together suggests that voice AI, when built on infrastructure with consumer-scale reliability and natural conversational quality, is capable of operating in exactly these high-stakes categories. Voice agents that provide clear answers, fast turnaround, and 24/7 availability represent a meaningful shift in what is possible for lending operations that have traditionally depended entirely on the availability of human staff.
SIMBA Voice Agents is built by Speechify and brings the same voice technology trusted by more than 60 million consumer users to enterprise deployments across customer support, lead qualification, outbound engagement, and now business lending coordination through this partnership with Fundwell. Every SIMBA customer is paired with a Forward Deployed Engineer who builds and continuously improves their voice agents. Learn more at simbavoice.ai.
About Fundwell
Fundwell is rebuilding how small and medium-sized businesses access capital. The company has provided more than one billion dollars in loans to help SMBs across America get off the ground and grow. Through its Nebula AI ecosystem, Fundwell is bringing intelligence into every layer of the funding journey, helping business owners access the financing they need with greater speed, clarity, and support.
About Speechify
Speechify is the world's largest consumer voice AI platform, serving more than 60 million users across more than 270 countries with natural-sounding voice technology in more than 60 languages. In 2025, Speechify received the Apple Design Award at WWDC, recognized as a critical resource for accessibility and productivity. The same voice technology that powers Speechify's consumer platform now powers SIMBA Voice Agents, Speechify's enterprise AI voice agent platform built for businesses deploying conversational AI across customer support, lead qualification, outbound sales, and reception. Learn more at speechify.com and simbavoice.ai.