The bootstrapped scheduler escaped the booking-link commodity trap by moving upstream into qualification and downstream into follow-through. Its next test is whether one set of rules can make the web form, chatbot and telephone behave like the same receptionist.
The scheduling link became office grammar. Calendly is betting that the same doorway can organize everything before, during and after a meeting.
Default is a New York-based go-to-market software company building the data and infrastructure layer that revenue teams - and their AI agents - use to run sales, marketing, and operations. It began as an all-in-one inbound platform for lead routing, scheduling, forms, and enrichment, then rebuilt itself around a real-time revenue data layer and an AI agent named Dot that plans and executes GTM work across a company's connected CRM, marketing, and enrichment systems. Backed by 8VC, Craft Ventures, and Jack Altman with $20M in total funding, Default serves fast-growing companies including Perplexity, Cortex, Owner, and Airbyte.
LeanData is a Santa Clara-based B2B software company that builds an Intelligent Go-to-Market Orchestration platform on top of Salesforce. It ingests buyer signals from across a company's revenue stack, matches leads to accounts, routes them to the right rep, enforces SLAs, schedules meetings, and automates the connective workflows between marketing, sales, and customer success. Founded in 2012 by Evan Liang and Kelvin Cheung, LeanData pioneered the lead-to-account matching and routing category and is used by more than 1,000 organizations, including Uber, Snowflake, Shopify, and Palo Alto Networks.
Nico Ferreyra is the co-founder and CEO of Default, a New York-based B2B revenue operations platform that bundles inbound scheduling, lead capture, enrichment, qualification, and routing into one system for Series A-C go-to-market teams. Born in Córdoba, Argentina and raised in the United States, he dropped out of college, moved into a San Francisco hacker house with cofounder Victor, and launched Default in late 2021. The company raised $6.6M seed led by Craft Ventures (with Jack Altman, 8VC, BoxGroup) and has reportedly raised roughly $20M total. Ferreyra also angel-invests in ~50 companies including Anduril, Browserbase, Runway, and Wander.
Openprise is a San Mateo-based enterprise SaaS company that builds a no-code RevOps Data Automation Cloud. Its platform handles the unglamorous plumbing behind revenue teams - cleansing, deduping, enriching, scoring, routing, and unifying B2B data across Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot, Eloqua, Pardot and other GTM systems - so marketing, sales and ops teams can stop firefighting spreadsheets and start pulling levers.
Ed King is the Founder and CEO of Openprise, a RevOps data automation platform headquartered in San Mateo, California. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from UC Berkeley, Ed spent over a decade in enterprise middleware and product management roles at IBM, Oracle, Qualys, and Axway before founding Openprise in 2013. He built the company to solve the data chaos he witnessed firsthand in go-to-market operations — enabling non-technical RevOps teams to automate complex data workflows without writing a single line of code. Under his leadership, Openprise has raised $57.93M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital in March 2024, and has been recognized as an Inc. Magazine Best Workplace three consecutive years.