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Octave
Octave is a San Francisco-based AI company building a generative go-to-market platform - an 'agentic GTM brain' that codifies a company's ICP, positioning and messaging, then feeds that context to sales agents, workflows and tools like Clay, Salesforce and HubSpot. Founded in 2022 by Zach Vidibor and Julian Tempelsman, it has raised $8.4M total and reports 2,500+ GTM teams on the platform.
Monday CRM
Monday.com is a publicly traded Israeli SaaS company (NASDAQ: MNDY) that builds a Work OS platform used by 245,000+ organizations globally. Its flagship products include Monday CRM, Monday Dev, and Monday WorkOS — a suite of customizable tools for sales, project management, and team collaboration. Founded in 2012, the company has grown from an internal Wix.com tool to a $1B+ ARR business with AI-powered agents, workflow automation, and deep integrations with 200+ enterprise tools.
Nimble CRM
Nimble CRM is a relationship-focused customer relationship management platform built for small businesses and teams. Founded by CRM pioneer Jon Ferrara — the co-founder of GoldMine Software — Nimble integrates deeply with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace to automatically enrich contact records, manage sales pipelines, and enable AI-powered prospecting. With transparent single-plan pricing at $24.90/user/month, Nimble positions itself as the smart, simple alternative to complex enterprise CRM systems, serving 10,000+ customers worldwide.
Nutshell
Nutshell is an all-in-one CRM and growth platform built for B2B small and mid-sized businesses that are tired of overpaying for software they barely use. Founded in 2009 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Nutshell combines sales pipeline management, email marketing, and customer engagement tools into a single subscription — with free live support on every plan. Acquired by digital marketing agency WebFX in 2022, Nutshell now serves over 5,000 companies across 50 countries, competing against industry giants like Salesforce and HubSpot by doing less, but doing it better.
Pipedrive
Pipedrive is a sales-first CRM built by salespeople, for salespeople. Founded in 2010 in Tallinn, Estonia, and now headquartered in New York, Pipedrive gives small and mid-sized businesses a visual, activity-based pipeline that keeps deals moving. With over 100,000 companies across 179 countries using the platform, Pipedrive became a $1.5 billion unicorn in 2020 after a majority investment from Vista Equity Partners. Its philosophy is simple: salespeople should spend less time in software and more time selling.
Sage CRM
Sage CRM is a customer relationship management platform built by Sage Group plc, designed to help small and mid-sized businesses manage sales pipelines, marketing campaigns, and customer service from a single hub. Deeply integrated with Sage's accounting suite, it lets growing companies turn contact records into revenue without the complexity - or cost - of enterprise alternatives like Salesforce.
Salesforce
Salesforce is the world's leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, connecting companies and their customers across sales, service, marketing, and commerce. Founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff and co-founders in a San Francisco apartment, the company pioneered cloud-based enterprise software and has since expanded into a full AI-powered platform - Agentforce 360 - serving over 150,000 organizations worldwide, including 90% of the Fortune 500. With $41.5 billion in FY2026 revenue and a market-dominant 21% share of the global CRM industry, Salesforce is reshaping how companies deploy autonomous AI agents to run their operations.
Close CRM
Close is a bootstrapped, profitable sales CRM built for small and mid-sized teams that want to spend less time on admin and more time actually selling. Founded in 2013 out of a San Francisco sales agency, it combines pipeline management, built-in calling, email, and SMS into one platform - no integrations required. With $17M+ ARR and a fully remote team across 40+ countries, Close has grown almost entirely without venture capital, making it one of the more unusual success stories in SaaS.
Copper CRM
Copper is a CRM built for Google Workspace users - specifically teams of 5 to 100 people who live in Gmail and Google Calendar all day. Founded in 2013 as ProsperWorks and rebranded in 2018, Copper is the only CRM officially recommended by Google on the Workspace Marketplace. Rather than forcing sales reps to log every interaction manually, Copper pulls contact and activity data straight from Gmail, auto-populating records so nothing falls through the cracks. Used by over 30,000 businesses across 100+ countries - from creative agencies to consulting firms to real estate teams - Copper has raised $99.5 million and evolved from a sales tool into a full client management platform for professional services.
Wing Assistant
Wing Assistant is a managed virtual assistant marketplace that pairs businesses with dedicated, vetted remote professionals to handle recurring administrative, sales, marketing, and operational tasks. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, Wing combines a proprietary AI-enhanced supervision platform with human assistants - covering everything from executive support and social media management to lead generation and customer success. With over 50,000 customers globally and assistants operating across 8 countries, Wing positions itself as a cost-effective alternative to in-house hires, offering dedicated (not shared) assistants starting at $699/month.
Insightly
Insightly is a San Francisco-based SaaS CRM platform founded in 2009 by Anthony Smith in Perth, Australia. It offers an integrated suite of CRM, marketing automation, and customer service tools targeting small to mid-sized businesses and mid-market companies. With over 1.5 million users across 200+ countries and ~25,000 customer organizations, Insightly differentiates itself through deep integrations with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, a unified platform (CRM + marketing + service), and mid-market pricing. In July 2024, Insightly was acquired by private equity firm Crest Rock Partners and merged with Unbounce, the Vancouver-based landing page platform. In December 2025 it launched an AI Copilot for natural-language CRM interactions.
Less Annoying CRM
Less Annoying CRM (LACRM) is a bootstrapped, self-funded SaaS company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, that builds a deliberately simple and affordable CRM designed exclusively for small businesses. Founded in 2009 by brothers Tyler and Bracken King, the company has grown to serve 100,000+ users across 70+ countries with a single flat-rate pricing tier of $15/user/month — no contracts, no hidden fees, and free customer support included. Rated #1 easiest-to-use CRM on G2 and named Best CRM by U.S. News & World Report multiple years running, LACRM stands out for its radical simplicity, customer-first culture, and commitment to never taking outside investment.
Maximizer
Maximizer is one of the world's oldest CRM software companies, founded in 1987 in Vancouver, Canada — predating Salesforce by 12 years. It provides a powerful, customizable CRM platform targeting sales teams, SMBs, and financial services professionals including wealth managers, financial advisors, and insurance brokers. With 120,000+ customers and 1 million+ users over its 35+ year history, Maximizer offers cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployments with a strong focus on data sovereignty (Canadian and UK data centers). In 2023, the original founder Mark Loveys re-acquired the company, signaling a renewed focus on its core identity as a CRM built for sales leaders. In 2024–2025, Maximizer launched a purpose-built Financial Services Edition and IQ Boost, a Canadian-built AI tool helping financial advisors navigate Canada's $1-trillion intergenerational wealth transfer.
Zendesk Sell
Zendesk Sell is the sales CRM product from Zendesk, Inc. — a San Francisco-based customer experience platform founded in Copenhagen in 2007. Originally acquired as Base CRM in 2018 for ~$50M and rebranded, Sell offers sales force automation including lead tracking, pipeline management, built-in calling/email, and AI-powered prospecting. It integrates natively with Zendesk Support to give sales and service teams a unified customer view. Zendesk itself was taken private in 2022 by Hellman & Friedman and Permira for $10.2B, and in September 2025 announced Sell will be retired on August 31, 2027 as the company pivots fully toward AI-powered customer service.
Streak CRM
Streak is a CRM platform built entirely inside Gmail, enabling sales, recruiting, fundraising, and support teams to manage pipelines, contacts, and workflows without leaving their inbox. Founded in 2011 by ex-Googlers Aleem Mawani and Omar Ismail through Y Combinator, Streak has grown to 750,000+ users and ~$10M ARR while remaining lean (~35 employees) and profitable — having raised only $1.9M and never pursued follow-on venture funding. It is Google's G Suite Technology Partner of the Year and one of the most capital-efficient CRM companies in the market.
Zoho CRM
Zoho CRM is the flagship product of Zoho Corporation, a bootstrapped Indian SaaS powerhouse founded in 1996 that has never taken external funding yet grown to over $1.4 billion in annual revenue and 1 million+ paying customers. Zoho CRM is a cloud-based customer relationship management platform used by 250,000+ businesses in 180+ countries, offering AI-powered sales automation, marketing automation, and omnichannel communication—all at a fraction of competitor pricing. Zoho Corporation's wider suite of 55+ integrated business applications makes it one of the most comprehensive software vendors in the world, competing simultaneously with Salesforce, Microsoft, Google, and SAP while championing privacy, rural employment, and long-term independence over short-term shareholder returns.