Clay, an artificial intelligence go-to-market company, has secured $115 million in Series D financing at a $7.1 billion valuation. The round was led by Wellington with participation from Sequoia, StepStone, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, BoxGroup, Boldstart, Bloomberg Beta, and Evolution. The company now serves more than 17,000 customers, including 80 percent of the Forbes AI 50 as well as Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Workday, and Siemens.
A New Class of Growth Technology
Clay predicts the next best action for a business and then helps teams execute it. The company has coined the term GTM Engineer to describe practitioners who run growth agents, just as software engineers run coding agents. These agents can identify ideal customers, monitor intent signals, launch new features to relevant users, and improve as they learn from outcomes.
A Self-Learning Revenue Engine
Clay describes its platform as a self-learning revenue engine. The system builds a live understanding of a company’s business, market, and customers, then improves as it learns from outcomes. According to co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin, the better a company gets at learning, the faster it grows, a philosophy that underpins the product roadmap.
A Unified System That Learns From Every Run
Clay unifies a company’s full context, including CRM data, product usage, campaign engagement, calls, emails, and external signals such as funding events, hiring activity, and job changes. From this information, it builds a live understanding of a company’s total addressable market and shares that view across the organization. Teams can describe a business goal in plain language, and Clay translates it into a workflow they can inspect and adjust.
Real-World Workflows With Human Oversight
Customers can ask Clay to book meetings with fintech marketing leaders, for example, and it will find the right people, research their businesses, build tailored presentations, and set up outreach. If a prospect later mentions when their contract ends and asks for a pricing clarification, Clay will remember the timing and notice similar questions from other prospects. Teams retain full control, whether they create deterministic workflows themselves or let AI agents build them.
Product Previews Set for Sculpt Conference
Clay plans to preview upcoming product launches at Sculpt, its second annual user conference, on October 8 in San Francisco. The event is expected to highlight new capabilities that extend the company’s AI growth engine. These updates align with Clay’s focus on helping teams move from data to action more efficiently.
A $1 Million Commitment to GTM Engineers
Alongside the funding, Clay announced a $1 million scholarship fund to train the next generation of GTM engineers. These practitioners build revenue systems at some of the fastest-growing companies in the world. They come from backgrounds including RevOps, growth marketing, software engineering, and design, and the initiative aims to make this career path accessible to more people.
Clay’s latest funding round underscores growing demand for AI systems that can turn scattered business data into coordinated growth actions. With a valuation of $7.1 billion and a customer base spanning startups to Fortune 500 companies, the company is positioned to shape how modern revenue teams operate. Its investment in GTM engineering education further signals a long-term bet on a new generation of growth professionals.