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Growth Era and the art of the next step
A booked meeting is a beginning. Growth Era built its business around the people, processes, and persistent follow-up that turn that beginning into a sale.
Abstrakt Marketing Group sells the meeting before the sale
A commercial painter needed more doors to open. Abstrakt started with the size of the building - and built a business around doing the prospecting other companies keep putting off.
The Three Scientists Who Tried to Sell Their Way Out of Selling
Amplemarket began with founders who hated the busywork of finding customers. Their answer is a single sales system that spots a reason to call, finds the right person, and helps a human decide what to say.
The Sales Rep Who Never Picks Up the Phone
Artisan made its name telling companies to stop hiring humans. Its more interesting lesson came after the slogan: autonomous sales works best when the machine knows exactly when to hand the conversation back.
UserGems Failed at Resale, Recruiting and Influencers - Then Turned Job Changes Into Pipeline
Twin brothers Christian and Stephan Kletzl spent years building products nobody quite wanted. Their fourth idea found a warm lead hiding in plain sight - and became a pricey AI command center for revenue teams allergic to cold outreach.
Klenty Turned the Cold-Email Grind Into a Sales System - Now It Wants AI to Pick Up the Busywork
Three founders started by fixing a problem they had lived: one-to-one prospecting stops scaling, but indiscriminate automation burns the people you want to reach. Klenty’s decade-long bet is that the winning system sits between those two mistakes.
The Company That Rents You a Sales Team in the Gulf - and the AI That Tells It Who to Call
Selling software into the Gulf usually means hiring locally, learning the market the hard way, and waiting months to get paid. Cadena turns that whole problem into a subscription.
Squaretalk
The cloud contact center platform trying to turn every outbound call into a smarter, faster, better-connected conversation - without the enterprise price tag.
Voiso
Every interaction, a human connection.
Apten
Apten is a Y Combinator (S24) startup building omni-channel AI agents that engage and nurture leads across SMS, voice, email, and webchat. Aimed at B2C enterprises in home services, insurance, education, healthcare, and financial services, its agents hold one continuous memory across every channel, follow up at the right moment, transfer live calls to humans, and plug into CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot. The company says its conversational approach converts previously dead leads into sales opportunities at a much higher rate than robocalls or static drip campaigns.
Coldreach
Coldreach is a Y Combinator-backed (W23) AI sales development platform that helps B2B teams find companies that are ready to buy right now. Instead of blasting cold emails to random lists, teams describe what a buying signal looks like for their product in plain language, and Coldreach monitors 113M+ companies across job postings, news, LinkedIn activity, SEC filings, hiring changes and more, 24/7. When a match fires, the AI researches the account and writes personalized outreach that references the specific event - which the company says produces meaningfully higher reply and booking rates than spray-and-pray outbound.
FuseAI (YC W25)
FuseAI (operating as Fuse, tryfuse.ai) is a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator W25 startup building an AI-native sales platform for outbound revenue teams. It consolidates the fragmented GTM stack - contact data, waterfall enrichment, email and LinkedIn automation, deliverability infrastructure, a parallel dialer, and real-time buying signals - into one system where AI agents execute sales workflows from natural-language prompts. Founded in 2024 by CEO Saurav Bubber (former Deel GTM operator) and CTO Imogen Low (ex-SAP, co-founder of NWO.ai), Fuse aims to let one rep do the work of five.
Orum
Orum is an AI-powered live conversation platform for B2B sales teams. Its dialer automates the tedious parts of outbound calling - filtering out voicemails, bad numbers, and phone trees - so reps spend more time in live conversations. Layered on top is an AI coaching and enablement suite (scorecards, roleplay, live call visibility) that helps managers develop reps and shorten ramp time. Founded in 2018 by Jason Dorfman, the fully remote company has powered more than a billion calls and is used by over 1,200 revenue teams.
Regie.ai
Regie.ai is a San Francisco-based startup building an AI-native sales engagement platform that automates the grind of B2B outbound prospecting - sourcing leads, reading intent signals, writing personalized messages, and running email, phone, and social touches - while deciding on the fly whether an AI agent or a human rep should take the next step. Founded in 2021 by AI scientist Srinath Sridhar and sales veteran Matt Millen, the company pitches itself as a middle path between fully manual sales tools and fully autonomous bots, with a stated goal of amplifying human sellers rather than replacing them.
Revenoid
Revenoid is a San Francisco and Carrollton, Texas-based AI company that builds a 'system of intelligence' for enterprise go-to-market teams. Formerly known as EvaBot, the company pivoted from AI-driven corporate gifting to a suite of AI sales agents that continuously monitor thousands of accounts for buying signals, prioritize them with a pain-based scoring engine called UrgencyIQ, and automate account research, prospecting briefs, meeting prep and personalized outreach directly inside existing GTM stacks like Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach and Salesloft. Founded by CEO Rabi Gupta, the company raised a $10.83M Series A led by Comcast Ventures in 2022.
Valley
Valley is a New York-based AI startup building a single, autonomous outbound engine that acts as an AI sales development rep (SDR). It ingests your product, clones your voice, researches each prospect, and sends hyper-personalized LinkedIn outreach - identifying website visitors, enriching contacts, scoring intent, and booking sales meetings while human reps do other work. Founded by Zayd Ali, who exited a prior sales company at 18, Valley pitches itself as 'revenue in a box' for modern B2B teams, at roughly $395/month per seat versus a five-figure human SDR.
Warmly,
Warmly, is a San Francisco-based AI revenue orchestration platform built for SMB sales teams. It identifies anonymous website visitors at the person level, aggregates real-time buyer intent signals from multiple sources, and deploys AI agents to orchestrate personalized outreach across email, LinkedIn, and ads - all within seconds of a prospect showing interest. Founded in 2020 by four ex-Google engineers and backed by Felicis, NFX, and RTP Global with $21.5M raised, Warmly, turns the classic problem of 'who is on my website?' into a fully automated pipeline generation engine.
Outreach
Outreach is a Seattle-based sales execution platform that helps revenue teams find, close, and grow deals. Founded in 2014, it pioneered the 'sales engagement' category - automating outbound sequences across email, phone, and social - and has since expanded into deal management, conversation intelligence (Kaia), forecasting, and a growing roster of agentic AI tools. It serves enterprise sellers at companies like Zoom, Snowflake, Okta, and ServiceNow, reaching roughly $4.4B in valuation on the strength of a 2021 Series G.