@Clay just raised a $115M Series D at a $7.1B valuation. Now, more than 17,000 teams build on Clay, including Anthropic, SpaceXAI, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, Visa, UPS — and 80% of the Forbes AI50. @nytimes just broke the news, but the story goes far beyond the raise. AI is unleashing the biggest wave of company creation in history. Clay’s goal is to be the engine they use to grow. Clay is a self-learning revenue engine that figures out the best GTM play for your company, then runs it. We started as the company with the best data about other companies. Then we became the infrastructure to run campaigns across email, ads, and landing pages. Now we’re building agents that learn from every campaign, predict the next best action, and get better each time they run. Software engineers use coding agents to write code. GTM engineers now use growth agents to autonomously grow their companies. In 2023, we introduced GTME as a new role for people creating revenue systems with data, automation, and AI. Two years later, thousands of GTMEs are growing the world's best companies. They are gathering in nearly 100 Clay Clubs around the world, from Bangalore to Boston and Lahore to Lisbon. That’s why we’re proud to launch a $1M scholarship fund, helping more people enter the profession. @Wellington_Mgmt led our Series D, with participation from @sequoia, @stepstonegroup, @a16z Perennial, @MeritechCapital, DST Global, @CapitalG, @BoxGroup, @boldstartvc, @BloombergBeta, and @EvolutionEquity. A gracious thank you goes out to our customers, community, partners, team, and every GTM engineer shaping this with us. We are going to unveil the future of Agentic GTM at SCULPT on October 8. Stay tuned to see how to use AI to grow every company. 🖤🩵❤️💛

What we're building w/ the Clay Agent Plugin:

Currently top trending on the @MavenHQ website. Check out @ChrisViglietta's course: maven.com/p/a3e63a/build-you…

GTM JOB-CHANGE: @luissantiago_ai joined @higgsfield as a GTM Engineer to build go-to-market automations. Higgsfield, the AI content generation tool, just announced that it reached a $1B annualized revenue run rate, 18 months after launch. Congrats on the move, Santiago. Over and out. *beep beep boop satellite noises*

I got Mrs. Doubtfire'd by our newest employee. Meet Billy Parker (aka @paytonkirol). She recently joined @Clay's marketing team and she went undercover at our semi-annual sales kickoff to try to win the pitch contest... and a free vacation. Of course, no one told me! I love a good prank. This may be the best video we've ever put out 🔥 Spoiler alert: she won the whole thing. Want to find out how? Watch (and subscribe) here: piped.video/watch?v=2OVcY7Kf…

👀 📍 San Francisco

Brand has to start with the founders, not the CMO. A lot of people ask me how @Clay built its brand and how they should be thinking about their own company's brand. The advice I give always comes back to this: brand starts at the top and has to be authentic to the founders. There's a lot of data that shows CMOs are the most likely executive to get fired. And because of that, no matter how much they want to, they're not incentivized to take huge bets on something that won't show returns for a long time (if ever) — which is what brand is. Many think of marketing ROI as "how much did I put in, how much did I get out?" Brand is how much you put in today so that when you spend a dollar on performance marketing two years from now, you get more out of it. You're investing without knowing the direct ROI. We've been investing in brand since before we had revenue - that's when we bought clay.com, hired a claymation artist to design the images below, and more. People ask me why and I wish I could say it's because I'm a marketing savant. But the truth is that we just wanted to. We wanted the brand to feel a certain way - to capture the beauty of a product that exuded flexibility and creativity - and it felt right to invest in it from the start. Brand only works if it's authentic - and that only happens and actually gets prioritized when it comes from the top. As a little blast from the past, I pulled some mockups Hudson (said claymation artist) made for us ahead of our Product Hunt launch in Jan '22.

Here's a clip from @ENowoslawski. He's already using Grok Bot + Jev to build on @Clay (real-time build speed 👇️). This Wednesday (9/23), 12PM ET. Join Eric and @imdavidegrieco(Clay Head of Growth). He's building ~3 campaigns live. he's giving away the skill that's making the Clay workflows instantly. clay.com/livestreams/how-to-…

from skeptic to bullish -- when one of the godfathers SaaS say's you're the cheapest you've ever been at $7B, you remind him its $7.1B and make a hype video. haha all in good fun -- thanks for the shoutout @twentyminutevc and @jasonlk! Seems we see the same vision for the future of GTM!

Grok Bot is now more powerful for sales teams. Connect your Bots to Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Clay, Granola, and other GTM tools. Stay on top of accounts, complete follow-ups, and do deep research.

@Clay is committing $1M in scholarships to train the next generation of GTM Engineers. 🌱 In the last two years, the number of companies hiring GTM Engineers has grown over 2,000%. We want more people to have a shot at those roles, including people with the instincts for the work but no obvious way in. That's why we're covering part or all of your tuition at leading GTM academies, bootcamps and cohort programs, with training built around the skills teams are actually hiring for. We wanna hear from you if you’re changing careers, just starting out, or have like insane lore or an uncommon background. You don’t need a technical degree or any experience with Clay. 🩵❤️💛 Apply here: clay.link/tr7LLNZ