
Clari made the weekly sales forecast less séance, more evidence room. Now folded into Salesloft, its best trick remains simple: show the work behind the number.
Most sales software stops at the pitch deck. Pitcher wants the meeting, the order, the follow-up and the CRM record too - even when the rep has no signal.

From a Noida apartment and a television companion app to AI-guided gifts and enterprise sales, Rabi Gupta has spent sixteen years testing one durable thesis: software earns its place when it helps people notice one another.

The Spotlight.ai founder is turning two decades of enterprise software experience into a quieter kind of sales automation - one that listens for evidence, exposes risk and gives the human back the room.
The Boston startup is turning calls, emails and CRM exhaust into qualification, forecasts and sales collateral. Its pitch to enterprise revenue teams is blunt: stop asking reps to feed the machine, and make the machine do the paperwork.
Altify spent two decades turning the judgment of an experienced enterprise seller into repeatable Salesforce workflows. Now independent again, it is betting that AI works best when it knows the method - and the politics - behind a deal.
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.
Endgame is a San Francisco software company building an AI knowledge system for enterprise sales teams. It connects a company's CRM, emails, and call recordings with external sources like news, 10-Ks, and LinkedIn to do account research, meeting prep, deal inspection, and QBRs roughly 100x faster - aiming to turn every seller into a trusted advisor rather than a source of automated spam. Founded in 2021 by Alex Bilmes, the company first helped define the 'product-led sales' category before pivoting to an AI-native platform, and has raised about $47.5M from EQT Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Unusual Ventures.
Relevance AI is a platform for building and managing an AI workforce - teams of specialized AI agents that carry out real business work without human headcount. Founded in Sydney in 2020, the company lets operations teams, not just engineers, design multi-agent systems on a no-code canvas to run sales, marketing, research, support and back-office processes end to end. It raised a $24M Series B in May 2025 led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing total funding to roughly $37M, and counts Activision, Qualified and SafetyCulture among its customers.
Nick Smith is the President, CEO and Founder of Sailes, a New York-based AI company that builds personality-driven autonomous Sailebots to handle B2B prospecting for Fortune 1000 enterprise sales teams. A former sales leader at CBS Corporation and iHeart Radio, he sketched the idea for Sailes on his iPhone at the Lake of the Ozarks on July 4, 2018.
Riccardo (Ricky) Pellegrini is the co-founder and CEO of Knode.ai, a New York-based AI sales-management platform that mines sales conversations to coach reps, score calls, and turn winning behaviors into repeatable playbooks. A Harvard College and Harvard Business School graduate, he built his career as a product leader - Head of Product for AWS Data Exchange and VP of Product at RapidSOS - before founding Knode in 2023 with Nicholas Horelik and Henry Katz. He is an inventor on multiple software patents and an active angel investor.
Ema builds a 'Universal AI Employee' for the enterprise - autonomous AI agents that plug into existing systems and run business processes across customer support, sales, HR, finance, and compliance. Founded in 2023 by ex-Coinbase CPO Surojit Chatterjee and ex-Okta engineering VP Souvik Sen, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has raised $61M to date.
Jay Campbell is a Knoxville-based fractional AI GTM leader and serial product builder who spent 15+ years in enterprise sales at Staffmark, Avionte, and Sense before turning his builder habit into the point of it all. He has shipped 45+ AI products - including Cadence (a personal AI OS with 50+ API integrations), DealIQ OS (an AI deal-coaching CRM), and getaFNjob - and writes the Selling with AI newsletter, which runs a 70% open rate. His thesis: most companies use AI to do the same things faster; winning teams use it to do things they could never do before.
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.
Gorish Aggarwal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sybill AI, an agentic AI platform that automates the administrative grind of B2B sales - generating call summaries, drafting follow-up emails, and syncing CRM data so sales reps can focus on closing deals. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer who once worked on AI to restore sight to the blind, Gorish pivoted from computational neuroscience to sales intelligence after noticing during a 2020 Zoom lecture that reading human engagement over video was nearly impossible. He and three Stanford roommates - including his sister Mehak Aggarwal - built Sybill, scaling it from $100K to $1M ARR in nine months and raising $14.5M total, with an oversubscribed $11M Series A led by Greycroft in July 2024.
Mehak Aggarwal is the Co-Founder, CPO, and Head of AI at Sybill, an AI-powered sales assistant platform that analyzes sales calls, writes follow-up emails, and updates CRMs automatically. A product of IIT Delhi's dual-degree program in Mathematics and Computing, she went on to conduct research at Harvard's biomedical imaging center (where she developed a patented CT scan fracture-detection algorithm), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Singapore University of Technology and Design. She and her co-founders - including her brother Gorish Aggarwal - built Sybill into a 700+ customer platform with $14.6M in total funding. In 2025, she was named a fully funded Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business, continuing to lead Sybill while studying.