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Craig Harris and the art of finding the next question
A Peace Corps volunteer became a fundraiser, then a founder. At NOZA, HG Insights and BuyerCaddy, Craig Harris has kept returning to the same problem: how to make scattered information useful to someone who has a decision to make.
SMARTe and the surprisingly expensive wrong number
A bounced email looks like a small mistake. SMARTe has built a business around what happens when thousands of those small mistakes become the way a sales team works.
The $1,000 Question That Built Slintel
Before Slintel could predict which company might buy, its founders asked a simpler question: would anyone pay for the answer? The service that followed became a data business and, in 2021, part of 6sense.
LeadGenius
LeadGenius is a Berkeley-based B2B contact-data and buyer-intelligence company that blends machine learning with a globally distributed team of human researchers to build custom, compliance-first datasets for revenue teams. Rather than reselling a static database, it sources contact and account data on demand for each client, verifying every record before delivery, and layers in signals like role changes, technographics and buying-committee mapping. Spun out of the crowdsourcing startup MobileWorks in Y Combinator's 2011 class, the company pairs its data business with a social mission: it was the first crowdsourcing firm to tie worker pay to local living wages.
Sumble
Sumble is a San Francisco AI startup building a knowledge graph of the world's external company data. Founded by Kaggle creators Anthony Goldbloom and Ben Hamner, it crawls job boards, company sites, social media, and regulatory filings, then uses large language models to surface technographics, org charts, and active projects for go-to-market teams. It emerged from stealth in October 2025 with $38.5M in funding and covers roughly 2.6 million companies worldwide.