Clay secures a new round at a $3B valuation, sources say

According to three sources of the agreement, a sales automation operated by Capital G has raised a series C round.

Clay and Capital G do not respond to any request for comments.

The new round comes just a month after the New York startup announces that it will allow most of its staff to sell some of their share A Evaluation of $ 1.5 billionThe This secondary agreement, known as a tender offer, was run by Sikoiya, which was agreed to buy $ 20 million in employee shares.

Although it may seem that employees who have sold shares at a much lower price than the company now have a bad deal, they will probably have another opportunity to sell more stocks in higher evaluation next year. Clae’s co-founder and chief executive officer Karim Amin told TechCrunch in May that he would offer an annual tender on an annual basis.

Clay was founded in 2017, but it did not hit his move until a few years ago, when Amin decided to reject the startup focus to empower the sales workers and marketers with AI, to discover what data of their go-marketed techniques. Clay sales workers allow potential customer lists to find and update and write personalized outreach emails.

Today, Clae’s equipment is used by thousands of customers, from large companies like OpenAI, Hubspot and Canva to 100 smaller consulting companies that help other businessmen to use Clake to make their market efforts.

The company competes with the Juminfo, Lusha, including Sales Technology platforms Apollo.ioAs well as offers more new United And the common house

In addition to Sikoiya, the investors exist in Clay include Maritech Capital, Boldstart Venches, Maple VC, first round capital and box group.