News Summary

• Cloaked’s caller screening feature, named Call Guard, takes a call from an unknown number and converses with the caller to understand the intent.
• The tool automatically filters out spam or potentially scammy calls instead of relying on users to make the decision.
• Cloaked had already worked on developing the phone infrastructure for its identity product that lets users create new phone numbers to mask their real numbers.
• The startup said that it has added more than 100,000 paying customers since the beginning of the year and is seeing strong month-over-month growth.