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# Clay

Clay helps GTM teams scale their outreach by centralizing lead information and enabling personalized messaging with AI.

**First check**
:   2017-06-01

**Co-investors**
:   Sequoia, Meritech, First Round, Box Group, CapitalG, Sapphire

**Headquarters**
:   New York

## Company milestones

2025-08-05  
Announces $100M Series C led by CapitalG at 3.1 billion valuation. More from NYT [here](https://boldstart.vc/news/clay-a-sales-tool-for-the-a-i-era-raises-100-million-at-3-1-billion-valuation/).

2025-01-30  
Announces new round: "Clay, A Secret Weapon For Anthropic And OpenAI, Boosts Valuation To $1.3 Billion" [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2025/01/21/clay-ai-growth-software-one-billion-valuation/)

2024-06-27  
[Announces $46M Series B](https://www.clay.com/blog/clay-raises-62m-to-turn-any-growth-idea-into-reality) led by Meritech and prior rounds ([Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-27/sequoia-meritech-invest-in-ai-sales-and-marketing-startup-clay?utm_source=google&utm_medium=bd&cmpId=google&embedded-checkout=true)). Read more on our investment ([Medium](https://medium.com/p/b4aaa96ae488)).

2024-06-18  
Case Study: [Clay achieves 10x growth by reinventing data enrichment and sales outreach with OpenAI.](https://openai.com/index/clay/)

2017-06-15  
boldstart partners with clay in their inception round

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