# 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.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Zayd Syed Ali (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~90+ (LinkedIn lists ~94 associated employees; core team smaller)
- **Products:** Valley AI SDR, Signal-based LinkedIn outreach, Enterprise pipeline engine
- **Notable:** Founder Zayd Ali exited a prior sales company (Advisor Appointments) via private equity sale at 18, Raised roughly $3M from notable angels and funds including Jason Calacanis and John Pleasants, Reported ~30% blended month-over-month growth after its March 2023 pilot

## Products & services

- **Valley AI SDR** — A single AI-led outbound engine that understands your product, clones your voice, and researches each prospect, then autonomously identifies, scores, tailors, and sends hyper-relevant LinkedIn outreach to book meetings.
- **Signal-based LinkedIn outreach** — Identifies website visitors and intent signals, enriches contact data, and triggers timely, personalized connection requests and InMails - roughly 1,000-1,200 messages per seat per month, sent safely.
- **Enterprise pipeline engine** — A signal-based AI SDR configuration aimed at enterprises for building pipeline at scale with account safety, sequencing, and analytics.

## Achievements

- Founder Zayd Ali exited a prior sales company (Advisor Appointments) via private equity sale at 18
- Raised roughly $3M from notable angels and funds including Jason Calacanis and John Pleasants
- Reported ~30% blended month-over-month growth after its March 2023 pilot
- Cited 300+ teams using the platform
- Featured in Forbes for applying contextual generative AI to sales

## Latest updates

- **2023-11** — Featured in Forbes for leveraging contextual generative AI in the sales industry; ~$2M pre-seed round announced with Antler, Jason Calacanis, and others.
- **2023-12** — Reported $2M seed investment closing, with investors including Antler, Rough Draft Ventures, O'Shaughnessy Ventures, and John Pleasants.

## Links

- Website: https://joinvalley.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinvalley
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/zaydsyedali

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Last updated: 2026-07-02