Voqo AI Raises $800K to Answer Every Call the Industry Keeps Missing

Led by founder and CEO Adam Ma, and backed by Blackbird Ventures, Mark Bouris, and the University of New South Wales

Gen-Z innovation is officially disrupting one of real estate’s most outdated pain points: missed phone calls.

Sydney-based startup Voqo AI has raised $800,000 in pre-seed capital to reinvent how real estate communicates — using AI voice agents that never miss a call, triage enquiries in real time, and operate 24/7.

Led by founder and CEO Adam Ma, and backed by Blackbird Ventures, Mark Bouris, and the University of New South Wales, Voqo AI is building what it calls the next generation of property infrastructure: a fully AI-native voice platform that replaces the need for legacy call centres, voicemail, and manual admin.

It’s crazy that in 2025, property managers are still scrambling to check voicemails, said Ma. Every missed call is a bad experience or a lost deal. Voqo AI solves that automatically, 24/7.

With up to 60% of calls in real estate going unanswered — particularly after hours — the cost to the industry is in the millions.

And with staffing shortages, wage pressure, and rising service expectations continuing to squeeze margins, agencies are looking for new ways to deliver high performance without scaling headcount.

Voqo AI is answering that call.

Backed by industry giants

The raise includes strategic investment from Mark Bouris, Executive Chairman of Yellow Brick Road, who said:

Most teams don't realise how much revenue they lose from unanswered phone calls.

Voqo AI brings generative AI to one of the industry’s biggest inefficiencies — and does it in a way that improves service, not just cuts costs.

The system is already in use by early adopters including Barry Plant, Yellow Brick Road, and Property Investors Alliance, with voice agents capturing and escalating urgent issues, logging enquiries, and keeping teams informed — without human intervention.

From uni frustration to national disruption

Voqo’s founding team — made up of UNSW and University of Melbourne students and recent grads — built the platform after experiencing the pain of slow rental responses, missed inspection updates, and maintenance delays firsthand.

Their goal? To create a zero missed calls future for Australian real estate.

Ma, a UNSW Co-op Scholar and First Class Honours graduate, previously held roles at WiseTech Global and Westpac, and has published academic research on algorithms.

Now he’s focused on solving one of the industry’s most persistent operational gaps.

We want every real estate business in Australia to have peace of mind knowing that every customer call will be answered, no matter the time or day.

Voice is the next UI frontier

David Burt, Director of Entrepreneurship at UNSW, sees a bigger trend at play:

Voice as a user interface is creating vast opportunities and will define the future of how we communicate at work. The world is speaking — and startups like Voqo AI are listening their way to success.

Voqo AI is now actively onboarding progressive agencies as pilot clients.

Early partners will receive access to exclusive features, hands-on support, and direct input into shaping the future of AI voice in real estate.

With $800,000 in backing and momentum behind them, Voqo is making one thing clear: in a $10 trillion industry, no one can afford to miss the call.