Clay
Funding History
| Series B · 06/2024 | $500M |
|---|---|
| Series B Expansion · 01/2025 | $1.3B |
| Series C · 08/2025 | $3.1B |
| Series D · 09/2026 | $7.1B |
About
Clay provides a go-to-market data and automation platform that lets sales, marketing, and operations teams combine data from more than 100 providers with AI-driven workflows for research, monitoring, and outreach.
- founded
- 2017
- headquarters
- New York, NY
- totalPrimaryFundingRaised
- $317.0M
- latestValuation
- $7.1B
- latestRound
- Series D
- latestRoundDate
- 09/2026
- customers
- 17,000+
- estimatedARR
- $150M (May 2026, Sacra estimate)
Overview
Clay operates a go-to-market data and automation platform used by sales, marketing, and operations teams to research prospects, monitor buying signals, and run personalized outreach at scale. The platform aggregates data from dozens of third-party providers and layers AI-driven workflows on top, letting teams build custom enrichment and outreach logic without writing code.
The company was founded in June 2017 in New York by Kareem Amin and Nicolae Rusan, both McGill University graduates who had previously built and sold an e-commerce startup, Frame, to Sailthru in 2012. Clay operated with a small team for several years before its 2023-2025 growth phase, during which revenue and valuation both scaled sharply.
Clay's investor base includes Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, BoxGroup, Boldstart Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, CapitalG (Alphabet's independent growth fund), Sapphire Ventures, DST Global, and Wellington Management, reflecting a rapid succession of priced rounds and valuation step-ups between mid-2024 and late 2026.
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