CRED exits stealth with $15M seed led by defy.vc 200M+ companies & 900M+ contacts under one intelligence layer 25 enterprise customers signed before launch Golden State Warriors · UTA · PGA on board $100M revenue & $20M savings reported for customers 10,000 hours of manual data entry removed per month Hedge-fund-grade prediction, ported to the sales floor
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CRED

The predictive intelligence layer for enterprise - wiring your internal systems to real-time market signals, then telling you what to do and when.

The green circle that quietly onboarded a basketball dynasty, a Hollywood agency and a golf tour before it owned a homepage. San Francisco, 2025.

$15M
Seed Round
200M+
Companies of Data
25
Enterprise Customers
~50
Team Size
The Story

A company that sells decisions, not dashboards

Filed from San Francisco - June 2025

Here is a fact about enterprise software that everyone knows and nobody likes to say out loud: most companies already have more data than they can use. The CRM is full. The marketing platform is full. Somewhere there is a spreadsheet that a very tired person updates by hand. The bottleneck was never collection. It was knowing which of the ten thousand things in front of you actually matters this week.

CRED, a San Francisco company that exited stealth in June 2025, is a bet on that specific gap. It bills itself as a predictive intelligence platform, which is a phrase doing a lot of work in 2025, so it helps to be concrete. CRED takes the systems you already run - CRM, marketing automation, email - and joins them to a large pile of external market signals: who is hiring, who just raised money, who is spending on ads, which executive just changed jobs. Then it scores all of it and hands you a ranked list of what to do.

The pitch, which the company repeats often enough that you should probably take it seriously, is that this kind of forward-looking edge used to be expensive and exclusive. Hedge funds paid for it. Everyone else got a quarterly report describing things that had already happened. CRED wants to move that clock forward - to tell a sales team which customer is about to churn and which competitor is about to stumble while there is still time to act.

Whether "predictive certainty" holds up under scrutiny is a fair question, and one worth keeping in your back pocket. But the mechanism is legible, which is more than you can say for a lot of AI pitches: internal data plus external signals, scored, and pushed back into the tools people already live in. The plumbing, in this case, is the product.

"We're in the age of AI where contextual data can now lead to profound business outcomes."
Jon Carr-Harris
Founder & CEO, CRED
What You Can Do With It

Enrich. Score. Act.

Three moves, one loop
01 / ENRICH

Fill in the blanks

Records get topped up with live market signals - funding events, hiring trends, ad spend, executive moves - drawn from data on 200M+ companies and 900M+ contacts.

02 / SCORE

Rank the opportunities

Bespoke and off-the-shelf models score prospects and accounts on fit, churn risk, upsell likelihood and intent, so the right deal rises to the top.

03 / ACT

Do the thing

A built-in outreach tool plugs into existing systems - email prospects, trigger follow-ups and launch campaigns without switching apps.

The Platform

Under the hood

The pieces that make up the intelligence layer
Data Enrichment

Contextual enrichment

Turns thin records into rich ones using real-time signals rather than stale, purchased lists - the company says it generates petabytes of net-new insight each month.

Predictive Scoring

Fit, risk & intent

Predictive and custom scoring models assess prospects on likelihood to convert, churn risk and upsell potential so teams prioritize with evidence.

Action & Execution

Built-in outreach

Connects to your stack and lets teams execute - email, follow-ups, campaigns - closing the gap between an insight and an action.

Intelligence Engine

Signals to actions

The core engine unifies internal systems with external market data and produces ranked, contextualized recommendations and automated workflows.

Who Uses It

Signed in stealth

CRED reported 25 large enterprise customers on board before it had a public website - go-to-market and revenue teams across sports, entertainment and beyond.

Golden State Warriors UTA PGA
The Founder

Jon Carr-Harris

A serial entrepreneur with multiple prior exits and roughly a decade leading AI products, Carr-Harris founded and runs CRED. His stated aim is to strip away the overhead of managing complex data infrastructure so teams can spend their time acting on insight instead of assembling it.

The Money

A $15M seed to bet on "next"

Closed June 2025 · led by defy.vc
To give every business the predictive advantage once reserved for hedge funds - turning fragmented systems and signals into intelligent actions, at scale.
CRED's stated mission

Round participants

defy.vc · lead HOF Capital Alumni Ventures LDV Partners Streamlined Ventures SilverCircle Ventures Octopus Ventures BAM Ventures Gaingels
By The Numbers

What the company reports

Figures cited by CRED at launch - read as claims, not audited results
Watch & Explore

See it in motion

Product tour and demo requests, straight from the source
Follow The Trail

Links & sources

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