# People.ai

> People.ai is an enterprise AI revenue platform that captures every sales interaction - emails, meetings, calls - and turns the data into deal insights, forecasts, and next-best-actions for B2B sales teams. Founded in San Francisco in 2016 by Oleg Rogynskyy, it became a unicorn in 2021 and rebranded as Backstory in April 2026.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Oleg Rogynskyy (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~250
- **Products:** Revenue Intelligence Platform, SalesAI, Account Planning, Deal Inspection & Forecasting
- **Notable:** Raised $205M total funding across five rounds, Reached unicorn status with $1.1B valuation in August 2021, 15+ granted patents in AI activity capture and matching

## Products & services

- **Revenue Intelligence Platform** — Automatically captures emails, meetings, calls and contacts, enriches them into CRM, and surfaces activity-driven insights.
- **SalesAI** — Generative AI layer that answers natural language questions about deals, pipeline health, and rep activity.
- **Account Planning** — AI-powered account plans, whitespace and relationship maps for enterprise sellers.
- **Deal Inspection & Forecasting** — Predictive deal scoring, risk flags, and forecasting based on captured activity signals.

## Achievements

- Raised $205M total funding across five rounds
- Reached unicorn status with $1.1B valuation in August 2021
- 15+ granted patents in AI activity capture and matching
- Powers up to 1.8M sales activities per hour at Cisco alone
- Rebranded to Backstory in April 2026 to focus on generative AI answers

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — People.ai rebrands as Backstory, positioning the platform around 'answers' rather than dashboards.
- **2024** — Hit $62.8M revenue, integrated with Microsoft Sales Copilot, launched generative AI dashboards.
- **2021-08** — Closed $100M Series D at a $1.1B valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.people.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/people.ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ppl_ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@peopleai
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peopleai

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Last updated: 2026-05-23