Top 45 Startups developing AI for Sales and CRM

Updated: Mar 14, 2026
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These startups develop AI tools that can assist in planning sales meetings, identifying high-priority deals, predicting sales, deciding which discounts to offer customers (based on previous successes), training sales managers, automate cold-calls and email conversations, enter customer data to CRM.
1
Rox AI
Country: USA | Funding: $50M
Rox leverages AI agents to enhance sales productivity, providing actionable insights that help close deals.
2
Artisan
Country: USA | Funding: $46.1M
Artisan is creating an AI agent Ava that handles outbound direct marketing (cold contact) campaigns. It researches and contacts potential clients from dozens of sources, including email and professional social media. Ava automatically plans multi-channel sequences and contacts leads at the perfect moment, using intent signals to maximize conversion rates. One of its primary engagement channels, LinkedIn, temporarily blocked Artisan and forced the startup to remove all mentions of its social network from its website (however, it still allows data collection and messaging). Artisan is also developing agents to manage salespeople's schedules and qualify leads.
3
Gong.io
Country: Israel | Funding: $583M
Gong.io has built a tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning to help train and suggest information to sales people and other customer service reps
4
6sense
Country: USA | Funding: $526M
6sense is a B2B predictive intelligence engine for marketing and sales. It accelerates sales by finding buyers at every stage of the funnel.
5
Clay
Country: USA | Funding: $302M
Clay is a personal CRM that uses AI to query your personal database to learn even more about your network and aid you with maintaining your relationships.
6
InsideSales
Country: USA | Funding: $251.2M
InsideSales.com helps sales people close more deals by incorporating Artificial Intelligence into the way they work. It prioritizes deals and provides insights into what works and what doesn’t by analyzing detailed reports around every call.
7
Afiniti
Country: USA | Funding: $200M
Afiniti enables the real-time, optimized pairing of individual contact center agents with individual customers in large enterprises. It provides its services to a range of sectors, including airlines, financial services, hospitality, insurance, politics, retail, satellite TV, social media, telecommunications, and utilities.
8
People.ai
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $200M
People.ai is an AI platform for enterprise sales, marketing, and customer success that uncovers every revenue opportunity from every customer
9
Conversica
Country: USA | Funding: $132M
Conversica’s AI platform intelligently convert leads into sales opportunities via natural, two-way email conversations. It creates engaging conversations so that you can reach your sales goals
10
Vivun
Country: USA | Funding: $131M
Vivun offers an AI-powered software for Presales, designed to transform how B2B technology companies go to market.
11
Affinity
Country: USA | Funding: $120M
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM. It applies machine learning analysis and provide insights on who in the organization has the best chance of getting that initial meeting and closing the deal.
12
Dooly
Country: Canada | Funding: $102.3M
Dooly is a sales enablement platform that collects information and insights essential to close business sales.
13
Prezent.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $89.3M
prezent.ai is an AI-powered presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams.
14
AutogenAI
Country: UK | Funding: $61.7M
AutogenAI provides cutting edge natural language processing solutions to enable companies to write compelling content for bids.
15
Ema
Country: USA | Funding: $61M
Ema develops AI technology to empower enterprise employees by delegating repetitive tasks.
16
Landbase
Country: USA | Funding: $42.5M
Landbase is an AI-driven platform that helps businesses automate outreach, sales efficiency, and scale go-to-market efforts.
17
Accompany
Country: USA | Funding: $40.6M
Accompany has comprehensive, real-time profiles for every single Fortune 500 CEO. Its AI-driven database provides rich, relevant insights for millions of people and companies, so you can always find the right people and build stronger relationships.
18
1Mind
Country: USA | Funding: $40M
1Mind develops LLM-powered sales AI agent named Mindy which is used to augment self-service websites and substitute the sales engineer on calls for larger enterprise deals. It can also be the onboarding specialist, consulting new customers. Mindy can be trained to understand an extensive knowledge base that includes all of a company’s products, technical details and market positions. The startup uses a mix of third-party large-language models, including OpenAI and Google Gemini but reduces their hallucinations by using own rule-based AI model. This deterministic AI implements guardrails so once the agent absorbs corporate sales materials, it should repeat that info without deviation. Beyond that, Mindy is trained to say she doesn’t know an answer.
19
SetSail
Country: USA | Funding: $37M
SetSail is an AI-powered revenue data automation platform that accelerates revenue by discovering buying signals and rewarding what matters. SetSail leverages machine learning to analyze customer interactions and uncover what’s driving progress in your deals.
20
Actively AI
Country: USA | Funding: $22.5M
GTM Superintelligence for Revenue Teams. Helping enterprises increase qualified pipeline, revenue, and win rates with more precise outbound.
21
DocketAI
Country: USA | Funding: $20.4M
Docket trains on all your company’s knowledge, powered by state-of-the-art LLMs, and creates a dynamic knowledge graph.
22
Connect the Dots
Country: USA | Funding: $20M
Connect The Dots is a network intelligence platform that uses AI to map and manage career-long professional relationships.
23
Cerebri AI
Country: USA | Funding: $19M
Cerebri helps to measure customer success and to drive higher revenue and exceed KPIs with Next Best Actions, generated in real time for millions of individual customers.
24
Beautiful.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $16M
Creating software that understands the rules of great design and allows anyone to build stunningly beautiful visual documents with ease.
25
Falkon
Country: USA | Funding: $16M
Falkon AI provides revolutionary way to combine machine learning human intuition to empower professionals to define.
26
Sybill
Country: USA | Funding: $14.6M
Sybill analyzes verbal and non-verbal cues to generate meeting summaries, crafting deal notes and CRM updates using AI models.
27
Lavender
Country: USA | Funding: $13.2M
Lavender is an email assistant software that helps write better sales emails.
28
Nektar.ai
Country: Singapore | Funding: $10.3M
Nektar.ai is a B2B sales productivity startup that develops an AI-based virtual sales assistant to improve the productivity of sales teams.
29
Aktify
Country: USA | Funding: $4.5M
Conversational Collective Intelligence: Delivering human conversations better than humanly possible.
30
Scalestack
Country: USA | Funding: $4.1M
AI-powered RevOps. A data-agnostic enrichment, prioritization & activation platform for GTM.
31
AiSDR
Country: USA | Funding: €2.7M
AiSDR automates meeting scheduling by categorizing leads, speaking with prospects, designing email campaigns, and utilizing AI technology.
32
Tetra
Country: USA | Funding: $1.5M
Tetra lets you have a clean and complete conversation with the person at the other end because it takes care of all the niche details that come up in the discussions. It uses Artificial Intelligence to generate a detailed script of dialogues using its speech recognition technology.
33
Wrappup
Country: UAE | Funding: $800K
Wrappup is a meeting-based productivity app with intelligent voice recording that helps inside sales managers make better decisions.
34
Kreato
Country: India | Funding: $500K
Kreato CRM is a SaaS-based solution that offers a complete and integrated CRM for small and medium businesses.
35
Dave AI
Country: India | Funding: ₹20M
DaveAI creates Virtual Sales Avatars for brands
36
Edward.ai
Country: Poland | Funding: PLN1M
Edward.ai is AI assistant that learns from business data, listening to events such as phone calls, meetings or e-mails and automates the most typical activities related to creating summary notes or setting subsequent steps related to the sales process.
37
SMS-iT
Country: USA | Funding: $200K
SMS-iT is a semi-sentient communication focused CRM for sales and marketing. SMS-iT CRM is an all-in-one system designed for infinite growth, providing a comprehensive suite of tools for lead acquisition, client nurturing, sales management, and client retention.
38
MoonAI
Country: Kazakhstan | Funding: $200K
MoonAI helps companies without technical expertise integrate AI agents into their sales and customer service processes. It connects to any CRM or ERP system and enables customer chat based on data from these systems, ensuring highly accurate responses. The chatbot's high response accuracy (98%, according to our own data) is its main advantage over competitors. This is achieved by creating ready-made communication scenarios. The agent can connect to Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram and website chat and understands images and voice messages.
39
Minalea
Country: France | Funding: $100K
Minalea created the first Smart Sales Assistant for insurance vendors.
40
Super Benji
Country: UK
Super Benji streamlines sales outreach by using AI to research contacts and draft messages based on news, triggers, and opportunities.
41
Empler AI
Country: USA
Empler AI helps teams empower their marketing, sales, and research processes. They can type the AI Tool they have in mind and watch Empler AI build it in 15 seconds.
42
Veloxy
Country: USA
Improve Salesforce engagement and keep focus on what drives the pipeline while an AI based Virtual Assistant takes care of everything.
43
Superfone
Country: India
Superfone uses AI to helps sales professionals to increase the sales productivity and gain more insights on the Sales Reps Activities.
44
Dhisana AI
Country: USA
Dhisana AI is the Cursor for sales. Its agentic flows bring together lead discovery, outreach, conversation intelligence, and revenue intelligence to automate the entire sales journey, so teams can focus on closing more deals.
45
7Targets
Country: India
7Targets develops industry specific AI Sales Assistants
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Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)pro