Sailes – an AI startup that developed its patent-pending Sailebots to automate all points in the prospecting lifecycle – recently announced the closing of a $5.1 million Series A funding round led by Lewis & Clark Ventures. The funding round was supported with investments from Acronym Venture Capital and Tenzing Capital and follow-on investment from existing investors KCRise Fund and Valor Ventures. This funding round brings the company’s total funding to $6.6 million.
Sailes’ proprietary AI technology – globally compliant and deployed in multiple languages – eliminates repetitive, manual tasks in favor of high-value, high-return sales activities. With the first and only known company to automate all prospecting for enterprises, Sailes built and trained its own sales-focused AI model to replace up to a dozen different prospecting point solutions, including for research, discovery, data validation, content generation, marketing automation, follow-up prompts, and sales/revenue intelligence.
Beyond enablement, Sailebots utilizes proprietary standalone infrastructure to multiply enterprise sales reps with personalized AI as a single product to complete all activities. Reflecting the user’s unique personality, Sailebots offers sales teams the time to focus on the most meaningful activities they’ve prepared for their whole career: closing deals.
Sailes set the blueprint for a new era of capital-efficient startups, combining the efficacy of its own Sailebot technology with the fuel of significant Fortune 500 adoption across commercial sectors like real estate, heavy equipment, financial services, environmental, social, and corporate governance, and manufacturing, to drive yearly triple-digit revenue growth since its inception. And the company deliberately pursued a strategic cash investment to help it more quickly scale its AI and machine learning talent and grow its footprint in New York City.
Plus, the company’s latest innovation Starboard provides an immersive user experience where enterprise sales teams can manage and deploy a “fleet” of Sailebots. And this offering allows reps to onboard, instruct, deploy, and train their own AI, giving companies the control they need and the power of four sales development representatives in every Sailebot. As new data and insights are uncovered, they are shared with sales teams to help them become even more effective.
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“Everyone is focused on getting AI in the hands of salespeople—and we’ve been doing our part to make that happen since 2019. However, our larger vision is a world where technology creates the space for us all to be more human. We’ll give salespeople their own AI that they control and that prospects the same way they do to deliver them unlimited labor, revenue opportunities, and possibilities. We’ve created a fork in the road between solutions that ‘enable,’ and Sailebots that do your work for you, as you, so you can spend more time selling and more time living.”
– Nick Smith, CEO and Founder of Sailes
“From the early stages of our diligence process, it was apparent that Sailes was the first mover in using AI to fully automate the lead gen and prospecting activities for enterprise sales teams. With so much buzz around AI, it was incredibly validating to hear customers rave about the actual value, in terms of both sales pipeline creation and labor efficiency, the platform provides. As evidenced by their tremendous growth and marquee customer logos, Sailes is experiencing a strong pull from the market. Additionally, Nick and team embody all of the characteristics we look for when backing early-stage founders. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with the business.”
– Michael Rockhold, Principal at Lewis & Clark Ventures
