Clay is a go-to-market platform for revenue teams that pulls data from hundreds of sources, enriches accounts and contacts, and runs personalized outbound campaigns from a spreadsheet-like interface. It is used by more than 17,000 customers, including 80% of the Forbes AI 50, alongside companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Stripe, Visa, and UPS. The pitch behind this launch is a shift from data and workflow tooling toward AI agents that recommend and execute the next best action to grow a business, from message rewrites to pricing changes.
The news anchoring the launch is a $115 million Series D at a $7.1 billion valuation, led by Wellington with participation from Sequoia, StepStone, Andreessen Horowitz Perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, BoxGroup, Boldstart, Bloomberg Beta, and Evolution. CEO Kareem Amin frames the roadmap as a progression, starting by aggregating B2B data, then building infrastructure to run personalized campaigns on top of it, and now building agents intended to help grow a company on the user's behalf.
Clay was founded in 2017 by Kareem Amin and Nicolae Rusan, joined by co-founder Varun Anand in 2021, and is headquartered in New York. For founders and operators, the launch matters because it signals where a widely adopted GTM tool is heading next, from enrichment and campaign execution toward agent-driven recommendations that learn from each campaign's results.
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Priya RajagopalanSep 10, 2026
The NYT drop before the tweet is a classic power move. Getting your Series D announced by legacy media while you tweet 'oh btw' is very 2024 founder energy.
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Tomás LarsenSep 10, 2026
Name-dropping Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Stripe in one sentence is either the flex of the year or a very expensive customer list to keep happy.
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mimi o.Sep 10, 2026
The truncated tagline in the tweet preview is killing me. 'AI is https://t.co/...' reads like a philosophical cliffhanger.
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mimi o.Sep 10, 2026
Also whoever picked that thumbnail crop deserves a raise or a stern conversation, I cannot tell which yet.
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Obinna E.Sep 10, 2026
17,000 teams and 80% of the Forbes AI50 is the kind of stat that makes me wonder what the other 20% are using. Spreadsheets and prayer?
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Zaynab IdrissiSep 10, 2026
Every GTM team I know either runs on Clay or is in a meeting about switching to Clay. The moat is basically FOMO at this point.
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Katarzyna W.Sep 10, 2026
Curious what the API story looks like now at this scale. Rate limits on enrichment workflows are the difference between magic and a very expensive queue.
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Clay is a go-to-market platform for revenue teams that pulls data from hundreds of sources, enriches accounts and contacts, and runs personalized outbound campaigns from a spreadsheet-like interface. It is used by more than 17,000 customers, including 80% of the Forbes AI 50, alongside companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Stripe, Visa, and UPS. The pitch behind this launch is a shift from data and workflow tooling toward AI agents that recommend and execute the next best action to grow a business, from message rewrites to pricing changes. The news anchoring the launch is a $115 million Series D at a $7.1 billion valuation, led by Wellington with participation from Sequoia, StepStone, Andreessen Horowitz Perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, BoxGroup, Boldstart, Bloomberg Beta, and Evolution. CEO Kareem Amin frames the roadmap as a progression, starting by aggregating B2B data, then building infrastructure to run personalized campaigns on top of it, and now building agents intended to help grow a company on the user's behalf. Clay was founded in 2017 by Kareem Amin and Nicolae Rusan, joined by co-founder Varun Anand in 2021, and is headquartered in New York. For founders and operators, the launch matters because it signals where a widely adopted GTM tool is heading next, from enrichment and campaign execution toward agent-driven recommendations that learn from each campaign's results.
Comments (7)
The NYT drop before the tweet is a classic power move. Getting your Series D announced by legacy media while you tweet 'oh btw' is very 2024 founder energy.
Name-dropping Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Stripe in one sentence is either the flex of the year or a very expensive customer list to keep happy.
The truncated tagline in the tweet preview is killing me. 'AI is https://t.co/...' reads like a philosophical cliffhanger.
Also whoever picked that thumbnail crop deserves a raise or a stern conversation, I cannot tell which yet.
17,000 teams and 80% of the Forbes AI50 is the kind of stat that makes me wonder what the other 20% are using. Spreadsheets and prayer?
Every GTM team I know either runs on Clay or is in a meeting about switching to Clay. The moat is basically FOMO at this point.
Curious what the API story looks like now at this scale. Rate limits on enrichment workflows are the difference between magic and a very expensive queue.