Relay raises $36M for frontline AI operations

Relay raised $36 million in new funding led by International Paper, taking total capital raised above $90 million for its frontline communications and operations platform. Relay’s funding announcement says its AI stack combines cloud communications, translation, location awareness, and automated workflows, and that it serves hundreds of thousands of frontline workers across nearly 10% of Fortune 500 companies. The bet extends grounded voice’s 20% credit premium from office copilots to factories, hotels, and other places where screens are inconvenient. Builders should file the metric as adoption evidence, not proof of ROI: the next measurement is how much spoken context becomes a completed, safer handoff.