Funding

Florida-Based Wayy.ai Scores $2M in Pre-Seed Funding Round

Aug 4, 2026 | By Devin Jacobs

SUMMARY

Wayy.ai secured $2 million in Pre-Seed funding, led by 0 to 1 Ventures.
Wayy.ai develops an AI-powered virtual sales platform that automates sales and marketing tasks for solopreneurs and small businesses.
The funding will support product development and scale the company's go-to-market strategy.

Wayy.ai, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI-powered sales platform for solopreneurs and small business owners, has raised $2M in a Pre-Seed funding round led by 0 to 1 Ventures.

The round also saw participation from Tunç Yalgin and a group of U.S.-based angel investors.

The company will use the capital to scale its go-to-market strategy and accelerate product development.

Funding Snapshot

Metric	Details
Fundraise Amount	$2 million
Funding Round	Pre-Seed
Valuation	Undisclosed
Company	Wayy.ai
Sector	AI / Sales Technology
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, US

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About Wayy.ai

Founded in 2023 by Leo Popov and Aleksei Samarin, Wayy.ai is building an AI-powered virtual sales co-founder for solopreneurs and small business owners.

The platform is designed to automate sales and marketing tasks so founders can spend more time developing their products and services.

Core offerings include:

Automated sales workflows
Customer identification
Personalized outreach
Talent identification and recruitment support

Core Technologies / Products / Services

Capability/Product	Application/Use Case
AI Sales Platform	Automates sales and marketing workflows
Customer Discovery	Identifies potential customers
Personalized Outreach	Creates tailored messages for prospects
Talent Identification	Helps founders find potential team members

Leadership Comments

"The way most people find their best customers manually is by going through a long mental checklist — does this person work in the right industry, do they have the budget, do they have the problem we solve, are they the right decision-maker," said Dr. Samarin. "We built a system that replicates that reasoning process across thousands of profiles simultaneously.

"The number of people starting their own businesses has surged, and a big part of that is driven by layoffs," said Popov. "These are talented, motivated people who have the skills to build something real — but they're doing it alone, with limited budgets and no co-founder to lean on. That's exactly who Wayy.ai was built for.