https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/07/open-phone-raises-40m-to-replace-your-work-phone-and-office-pbx-with-an-app/

Pam answering the phone at Dunder Mifflin become one of the most iconic refrains of life at The Office, and it’s really no wonder that it did: businesses big and small have long run on communications as played out over PBXs, voice mail, cold and warm calls, customer help lines, and more recently the never-escapable, always-with-you cell phone. All that has, slowly but surely, been changing, though, and today one of the startups hoping to be a leader in disrupting that tune is announcing some funding as it finds some growth, currently handing some 10 million calls and messages monthly for its customers.

OpenPhone, which provides a business line and related phone services to users by way of a smartphone app, which in turn becomes a user’s business phone separate from their private cell phones, has raised $40 million, a Series B that it will be investing in continuing to expand the communication and collaboration services it provides, and building deeper integrations with the other productivity tools that its customers already use.