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Commsor Bet That Your Network Was the Product
The community-software startup spent six years arguing that trust, not cold email, is how companies actually grow - then folded the idea, and itself, into The Swarm.
Commsor
It started as software for online communities and became the company that told sales teams to stop cold-calling and start asking friends. The dinosaur was optional; the warm intro was the point.
Connect The Dots
Connect The Dots (CTD.ai) is a San Francisco relationship-intelligence company that turns the email and LinkedIn history sitting inside a company into a searchable graph of who actually knows whom - and how well. Founded in 2019 by ex-Salesforce sellers and designers, it scores relationships from two-way email activity, surfaces the shortest warm path to any buyer, candidate or investor, and lets go-to-market teams request introductions at scale instead of sending cold outreach. The individual product is free; teams and enterprises pay to pool their collective network.