{"id":97847,"date":"2025-08-06T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/clay-confirms-it-closed-100m-round-at-3-1b-valuation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:57:09","slug":"clay-confirms-it-closed-100m-round-at-3-1b-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/clay-confirms-it-closed-100m-round-at-3-1b-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sales automation startup Clay has raised a $100 million Series C at a $3.1 billion valuation in a round led by CapitalG, confirming <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/13\/clay-secures-a-new-round-at-a-3b-valuation-sources-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TechCrunch\u2019s report from June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The financing follows a $1.25 billion Series B round from six months ago and a $<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/08\/clay-authorizes-employee-tender-at-a-1-5b-valuation-led-by-sequoia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1.5 billion Sequoia-led tender offer<\/a> announced a couple of months ago, which allowed most employees to sell some of their shares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest deal brings Clay\u2019s total funding to $204 million. Existing investors Meritech Capital, Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, BoxGroup, and Boldstart also participated in the Series C, and a new backer, Sapphire Ventures, joined the round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 8-year-old startup helps salespeople and marketers with AI-powered tools and claims customers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Canva, Intercom, and Rippling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clay co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin told The New York Times that the company expects to end the year with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/05\/business\/dealbook\/clay-ai-marketing-fundraise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$100 million in revenue<\/a>, which would triple its revenue from last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/05\/clay-confirms-it-closed-100m-round-at-3-1b-valuation\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales automation startup Clay has raised a $100 million Series C at a $3.1 billion valuation in a round led by CapitalG, confirming TechCrunch\u2019s report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}