AI Agent Platform Clay Gets Investment from Sequoia Capital, Valued at $1.5 Billion

AI Agentflat-roofed buildingClayannounced on its website that it has received an employee stock buyback offer led by Sequoia Capital, valued at15Billions of dollars.

This share repurchase program is valued at more thanClaylast month12.5US$ billion, total repurchases2000$10,000 USD. Primarily for all employees with vested shares, as well as those holdingClayFormer team member of Stock.

ClayAs a globally recognizedAgentplatform, which has seen significant growth over the past few years.2022Year,2023For the year, revenues were realized in both10doubled.2024Annual revenue growth of6times.2025Revenues also grew significantly in the first quarter of the year.

ClayCurrently there are more than8000Customers, includingOpenAI,Hubspot,Canvaand other well-known companies, and with130Multiple world-class data partners have established130Multiple integrations to provide customers with a variety of data enhancements.

In addition.ClayAlso has135classifier for individual things or people, general, catch-all classifierAgentPartners, based onClayBuild revenue operations and outbound business and operate globally50multi- (faceted, ethnic etc)ClayClubs that help members improve their skills.

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In terms of products, Clay's main intelligent body product Claygent has accumulated more than 1 billion automation runs, which can automate many tedious, repetitive and lengthy business processes, as well as automate the integration of Internet information for analysis, and is applicable to different fields such as human resources, finance, administration, logistics and sales. For example, OpenAI increased the data enhancement coverage from 40% to 80% by using Clay.

Functionality.Claygent It has advantages in many aspects. For enterprise data research, it can be based on the company's website or public information on the Internet, and dig deeper into the company's detailed information, including office location, business scope, development history, etc..

For example, if a company is conducting market research and wants to know the latest developments of a competitor, Claygent can quickly collect and organize the relevant information to help adjust the strategy in a timely manner.

Sales development reps used to spend a lot of time manually researching prospects, now with the help of the ClaygentIn just a few seconds, you can get enough information to determine the quality of your leads and write relevant business development emails, so you can invest more time in nurturing your customers and advancing your sales.

Businesses can also utilize Claygent Accurately grasp customer dynamics, for example, automatically tracking the customer's position changes, company financing and other key events, timely targeted communication, such as sending congratulations and recommending related products or services when the customer is promoted, greatly improving the customer conversion rate and business turnover rate.

In addition.Claygent It is also possible to utilize AIBig Model Mining of unique data automates large-scale manual research to discover data points missed by traditional data providers, such as flagging fraudulent domains, summarizing the content of job postings or financial documents, creating lead scoring models, and more.

It also cleans and formats data, transforming unstructured data into the format required by the enterprise to provide accurate and standardized data support for corporate decision-making.

Meanwhile.Claygent Integration with other platforms is also possible, enabling flexible, iterative workflows. Organizations can integrate the workflow that they've learned throughClaygent Obtained data with CRMIt connects with other business systems, such as email marketing tools, to automate workflows based on different business logics. For example, personalized emails are automatically sent to eligible customers based on specific conditions in the customer data to drive the sales process.

In terms of security and compliance.Clay The platform follows strict criteria such as SOC 2 Type II Compliance to ensure data security while supporting GDPR,CCPA and other regulatory requirements to safeguard the data privacy of businesses and customers. Many well-known companies such as OpenAI,Intercom,Anthropicetc. are all important for Claygent Highly evaluated, its remarkable effect in enhancing data richness, optimizing workflow and improving sales efficiency has been verified by the market.