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Clay

AI software tool for salespeople — automated lead enrichment and outreach
AI 📍 New York, NY Founded 2017
Current Valuation
$3.1B
as of 2025-Q3
UNICORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Clay going public?
No. Clay has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Clay's valuation in 2026?
Clay is valued at $3.1B as of 2025-Q3, set by its Series C (Jul 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Clay filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Clay.
Who are Clay's investors?
Clay's investors include Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, Boldstart Ventures, Box Group, Meritech Capital.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Clay is an AI-powered GTM platform that automates lead enrichment, prospect research, and outreach for sales teams. Achieved a $3.1B valuation shortly after appearing on the most-promising-startups lists, riding a wave of GTM/RevOps adoption. Its 'Claygent' AI agents combine 100+ data sources with LLM-generated context to build hyper-personalized outbound at scale.

Company Profile

CEO
Kareem Amin
Founded
2017
HQ
New York, NY
Employees
~150
Total Raised
$100M
Growth
Hypergrowth in GTM/RevOps category
IPO Status
no imminent plans

Fundraising Status

Series C · 1y 1mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $100M

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$19.91
Last round price / share
$106.33
vs last round
-81.3%
Open interest
1
Last round price vs secondary price
Last round vs current secondary price per share$106Last round$19.91Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month+11.1%6-month-80.1%1-year-0.4%All-time+3.4%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series CJul 2025Sequoia Capital

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

No verified Hugging Face organization found for Clay — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-08-19. Re-checked weekly.

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
73
via ashby
Product-build share
22%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
go-to-market push — Only 22% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (31 of 73 open roles are sales).
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month73Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionSales & GTM31Engineering9Other8Marketing7Support4Finance & Strategy3Ops & People3Research3Design2
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Product DesignEngineering ManagerSoftware Engineer, Developer Experience (AI)Web Developer (Growth & Conversion Optimization)Security EngineerProduct Designer, Growth
Counted from Clay's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Kareem AminVarun AnandNicolae Rusan

Investors

Sequoia Capital · First Round Capital · Boldstart Ventures · Box Group · Meritech Capital

Products

  • Clay platform (GTM data + AI agents)
  • Claygent (AI research agent)
  • Waterfall enrichment
  • Integrations with 100+ data providers

Competitors

ZoomInfo (ZI) · Apollo.io · Outreach · Salesloft · Common Room
AISalesGTMUnicorn
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.