Clay
New York software company, founded in 2017, whose platform helps sales and marketing teams enrich lead data and automate outreach. It announced a USD 115 million Series D at a USD 7.1 billion valuation in September 2026.
Industry: Go-to-market data enrichment and automation | Location: New York, United States | Founded: 2017 | Total Funding: USD 255M
About Clay
Clay is a New York software company whose platform lets sales, marketing and revenue teams research companies, enrich lead data and automate outreach through workflows and AI agents. Its website says its goal is to give every company the tools to build its own revenue system. Products named in its September 2026 announcement include Workflows, Claygent, Sequencer, Audiences, Clay Ads and Clay MCP.
Clay began in Brooklyn in 2017 as a spreadsheet that let people connect information and automate work without writing code. BetaKit reports that it was launched by McGill University graduates Kareem Amin and Nicolae Rusan, and that Rusan has since left. Amin is co-founder and chief executive, and Varun Anand, who joined in 2021 according to First Round Capital, is co-founder and head of operations.
Clay said in September 2026 that it has more than 17,000 customers, naming Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Visa, Siemens and UPS. It also said revenue grew tenfold in 2022 and 2023, sixfold in 2024 and fourfold in 2025.
In January 2025 Clay made its first acquisition, Avenue, an alerting and workflow automation tool with a five-person team; terms were not disclosed. In March 2026 it announced a London office, new European data partners Lusha, Beauhurst and Dealfront, and expanded support for European teams. Its blog also lists a connector in Claude, announced in January 2026, and an Apollo integration.
First Round Capital led Clay's seed round in 2017. In January 2025 Clay announced 40 million dollars of Series B expansion funding at a 1.25 billion dollar valuation, with existing investors led by Meritech. In August 2025 it announced a 100 million dollar Series C at a 3.1 billion dollar valuation, led by CapitalG with Sequoia, Meritech and First Round participating.
On 9 September 2026 Clay announced a 115 million dollar Series D at a 7.1 billion dollar valuation, led by Wellington. The announcement also described a one million dollar scholarship fund for training go-to-market engineers.
Leadership
- Kareem Amin, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Varun Anand, Co-founder and Head of Operations