A connected revenue workspace that finds, enriches, and syncs prospects without ever making a rep leave the tab they already have open.
Somewhere right now, a sales rep is looking at a stranger's LinkedIn profile - a VP of something, at a company they'd love to sell to. A year ago this moment meant a scavenger hunt: guess the email, cross-check a database, paste it into Salesforce, add a note, forget the note, lose the tab. Today the rep clicks one button. Surfe finds the verified email and mobile number, drops a fresh contact into the CRM, syncs the conversation, and quietly flags that this person has been showing buying signals all week. The rep never left LinkedIn. The whole thing took a breath.
That breath is the entire product. Surfe isn't trying to be another dashboard you dutifully check. It's trying to disappear into the tools sales teams already live in - and do the boring part before anyone asks.
Above: the Surfe wordmark. A company named after a wave, built to smooth one out.
David Maurice Chevalier and Romain Ginestou met as HEC students on an exchange program at UC Berkeley. They were using LinkedIn to prospect, and running into the same wall everyone runs into: finding a person is easy, but getting their details into a CRM is a slog of tabs, guesses, and manual entry. So they built a small tool to automate the slog. They called it Leadjet.
The tool worked, and word spread the way good tools spread - one rep telling another. Without a dedicated sales team, Leadjet reached more than 1,500 paying customers and over EUR1M in annual recurring revenue in roughly two years. Among those customers: Google, Uber, Spendesk, Mirakl, and Opendoor.
In October 2022 the company rebranded to Surfe and raised a EUR4M seed round led by 360 Capital, with TS Ventures and angels from Personio and Tenable joining in. The new name traded a feature ("lead jet") for an ambition - riding the wave, meeting reps where the momentum already is.
Our new brand identity helps to reflect our long-term vision of helping all customer-facing teams to be bold and achieve their goals.
"Waterfall enrichment" sounds like jargon. In practice it means Surfe chains together 15+ contact databases and cascades through them until it finds a verified email or mobile number - so you're never trapped by the blind spots of a single vendor.
The moat isn't the data - everyone rents the same vendors. The moat is knowing which vendor to trust, this month, for this region.
Add and enrich contacts, take notes, and manage deals straight from a profile or Sales Navigator - no tab-switching.
Chain 15+ databases for verified contact details, benchmarked monthly. 500M+ contacts enriched to date.
One-click, two-way sync of contacts, notes, messages, and deals into Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Copper, and Google Sheets.
AI signals surface which prospects are ready to engage now, so reps reach out at the right moment - not at random.
A public API for people search and enrichment, so the same data can power your own workflows and tools.
The public voice of Surfe and a vocal advocate of founder-led, human-first selling. His refrain: automate the busywork, never the connection.
The technical half of the pair who met David at UC Berkeley. Built the engine that turns a LinkedIn profile into a verified, synced CRM contact.
Surfe's customers skew toward fast-moving sales and go-to-market teams - the kind that measure a tool by whether it gives them back an hour a day.
Surfe reached 1,500+ customers and EUR1M ARR on product-led growth before raising a single euro. The seed round was for team expansion and product depth - not for buying its way to traction it already had.
Surfe is helping to remove needless manual tasks from the sales process.
Return to that sales rep and that stranger's LinkedIn profile. The scavenger hunt is gone. The contact exists, the email is verified, the note is saved, the deal is in the pipeline, and a small flag says this person is worth a call today. None of it required a second window or a copy-paste. The rep moves on to the next profile with an hour they didn't used to have.
That's what Surfe changed - not the selling, which is still human, still hard, still theirs to do. Just the forty clicks in between. A company named after a wave, built so the busywork rolls out from under you and you barely notice it leave.