Clay, a startup for sales automation, has raised a series -C round with an assessment of approx. 3 billion US dollars, led by CapitalG, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal.
Clay and Capital did not answer a request for comments.
The new round takes place only one month after the New York startup has announced that most employees can sell some of their shares to an assessment of 1.5 billion US dollars. This secondary business, which is known as a survival offer, was directed by Sequoia, which agreed to buy up to 20 million US dollars from employee shares.
It seems that employees who sold shares at a much smaller price than the company is now worth is a bad offer, but you probably have another chance of selling more shares for a higher rating next year. Kareem Amin, co -founder and CEO of Clay, told Techcrunch in May, he hoped to make offers for offers every year.
Clay was founded in 2017, but only a few years ago it took its step when Amin decided to turn the startup to strengthen sellers and marketers with AI to help them discover key data and to automate their strategies for the market. With Clay, sellers can find and update potential customer lists and write personalized Outreach -e emails.
Nowadays, the Clay tools are used by thousands of customers, from large companies such as Openaai, Hubspot and Canva to over 100 small advisory agencies that help other companies to mark Clay for their efforts.
The company competes with sales technology platforms such as Zoominfo, Lusha and Apollo.io as well as newer offers Unify and Common Room.
In addition to Sequoia, existing investors in Ton Meritech Capital, Boldstart Ventures, Maple VC, First Round Capital and Box Group include.