# Connect The Dots

> Connect The Dots (CTD.ai) is a San Francisco relationship-intelligence company that turns the email and LinkedIn history sitting inside a company into a searchable graph of who actually knows whom - and how well. Founded in 2019 by ex-Salesforce sellers and designers, it scores relationships from two-way email activity, surfaces the shortest warm path to any buyer, candidate or investor, and lets go-to-market teams request introductions at scale instead of sending cold outreach. The individual product is free; teams and enterprises pay to pool their collective network.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Drew Sechrist (Co-founder & CEO), Ian Swinson (Co-founder, Head of Design & Research), Luka Trikic (Co-founder, COO & Head of Engineering), Noah Lehmann-Haupt (Co-founder, Head of Product)
- **Team size:** ~97 employees
- **Products:** Connect The Dots (Individual), Teams, Enterprise, VC & Private Equity, Chrome Extension & API / Integrations
- **Notable:** Raised $20M total including a $15M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners (Dec 2021)., Founded by the Salesforce team that helped scale the company from $0 to $1B+ in revenue., Built one of the most complete company-wide relationship graphs by scoring two-way email activity plus LinkedIn data.

## Products & services

- **Connect The Dots (Individual)** — A free personal product that unifies your email and LinkedIn history into one view of every relationship - how you met, when you connected, where people work and the roles they held when your paths first crossed.
- **Teams** — Pools a company's collective relationships into a shared graph so anyone can find and request a warm intro to a target buyer, candidate or partner.
- **Enterprise** — Company-wide relationship intelligence with CRM sync, security controls and admin tooling for large go-to-market and talent organizations.
- **VC & Private Equity** — A tailored offering that maps the relationship networks of funds, their portfolios, LPs and advisors to source deals and support portfolio companies.
- **Chrome Extension & API / Integrations** — Browser extension plus integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Outlook and Google, and an API for AI agents to query the relationship graph.

## Achievements

- Raised $20M total including a $15M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners (Dec 2021).
- Founded by the Salesforce team that helped scale the company from $0 to $1B+ in revenue.
- Built one of the most complete company-wide relationship graphs by scoring two-way email activity plus LinkedIn data.
- Published a 'Relationship Data Bill of Rights' as a public stance on data ethics.
- Grew to roughly 97 employees across the US and Europe.

## Latest updates

- **2021-12** — Closed a $15M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners to eliminate sales friction by harnessing relationships at scale.
- **2023-01** — Expanded integrations and shipped a Chrome extension and API so AI agents and CRMs can query the relationship graph.
- **2024-01** — Rolled out vertical offerings for VC and private equity plus enterprise security and admin controls.

## Links

- Website: https://ctd.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/connect-the-dots-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ctd-relationship-ai

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Last updated: 2026-07-12