Funding

AI Startup Clay Raises $115M in Series D Funding Round

Sep 11, 2026 | By Devin Jacobs

SUMMARY

Clay raised $115M in Series D funding.
Funds will support AI growth and platform expansion.
Clay helps businesses automate sales and marketing.

Clay, a NYC-based AI go-to-market company, has raised $115 million in a Series D financing round led by Wellington, at a $7.1 billion valuation.

The round also saw participation from Sequoia, StepStone, Andreessen Horowitz, Perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, BoxGroup, Boldstart, Bloomberg Beta, and Evolution.

The company plans to use the funding to build AI agents for business growth, expand its platform and support a $1 million scholarship program for training GTM engineers.

Funding Snapshot

Metric	Details
Fundraise Amount	$115 million
Valuation	$7.1 billion
Company	Clay
Sector	AI / Go-to-Market / Enterprise Software
Headquarters	New York City, USA
Lead Investor	Wellington

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About Clay

Founded in 2017 by Kareem Amin and Nicolae Rusan, Clay is an AI go-to-market company that helps businesses identify opportunities, understand customers and execute growth workflows.

The platform combines internal company information such as CRM data, product usage, campaign engagement, calls and emails with external signals including funding events, hiring activity and job changes. Clay uses this information to build a live understanding of a company's market and customers.

Core offerings include:

AI powered go to market workflows
AI growth agents
Customer and market intelligence
CRM and product data integration
Automated prospect research and outreach

Core Technologies / Products / Services

Capability/Product	Application/Use Case
Growth Agents	Help teams identify and act on business growth opportunities
Customer Intelligence	Combines CRM, product and engagement data
External Signals	Tracks events such as funding, hiring and job changes
GTM Workflows	Converts business goals into inspectable workflows

Leadership Comments

“AI is unleashing the biggest wave of company creation in history, and Clay's goal is to be the engine those companies use to grow to their full potential,” said Kareem Amin, co-founder and CEO of Clay. “We started by aggregating the best data for B2B companies.

We believe the next wave of companies will be built by teams that think about growth in a systematic way," Amin said. We want to make this career accessible to more people. If we do it right, we'll be powering the next wave of the worlds economic growth."