Gong Valuation, Funding & Investors

Attentive is a New York City-based provider of AI-powered text-message and email marketing software for retail and e-commerce brands. Its platform lets brands collect subscribers through sign-up units, send personalized campaigns and automated journeys, and hold two-way conversations over SMS, email and RCS business messaging. Brian Long and Andrew Jones, who earlier founded the mobile advertising start-up TapCommerce, which Twitter acquired, started the company in 2016, and it has offices in San Francisco, London and Sydney. Attentive serves more than 8,000 brands, reported $500 million in annual recurring revenue in 2024, and says customer campaigns generated about $1.8 billion of online sales over Cyber Week 2023. It sells the platform as software as a service. Funding includes a $230 million Series D led by Coatue at a $2.2 billion valuation in September 2020 and a $470 million Series E in March 2021. Amit Jhawar, formerly chief executive of Venmo, became chief executive in June 2023, and the company had about 1,500 employees in March 2025.

Talkdesk is a cloud contact center platform integrating AI for customer service across sales, support, and operations. The company deploys Industry Experience Clouds for verticals like retail and healthcare, enhanced by generative AI for agent empowerment and personalization. Talkdesk serves global enterprises with pre-built solutions deployed in multiple languages.

Outreach is a sales execution platform automating workflows across email, phone, and LinkedIn for customer lifecycle management. Seattle-headquartered, it uses AI for sequence optimization and predictive coaching, serving clients like Cloudera, Glassdoor, Pandora, and Zillow. Integrations with Salesforce and Gong provide activity analytics and ABM targeting for enterprise teams.

Nextiva is a Scottsdale-headquartered provider of unified customer experience management platforms, enabling businesses to orchestrate customer journeys through AI-powered communication tools including voice, video, chat, and CRM integrations. Launched in 2006, the company supports contact centers and remote teams with features like call routing, analytics dashboards, and omnichannel support. Nextiva maintains a strong presence in North America, partnering with enterprises to streamline customer interactions via its cloud-based infrastructure.

Dialpad is a San Francisco-headquartered AI communications platform offering cloud phone systems, contact centers, and sales tools powered by VoiceAI for real-time transcription and sentiment analysis. Founded in 2011, it serves over 25,000 organizations including Okta and Garry's Mod with Dialpad Sell for coaching, UberConference for meetings, and integrations across 300 apps for voice, video, SMS, and messaging.

Iterable is a San Francisco-based marketing platform, founded in 2013, that helps enterprises build personalized, cross-channel customer experiences across email, push notifications, SMS, in-app messaging, and other digital channels. The AI-powered platform combines customer insights, analytics, and automation to support brands, including Calm, in engaging more than 3 billion consumers across over 30 countries. Iterable has expanded internationally, including a London office opened to support growth across Europe.

SoundHound AI Inc is an innovator of conversational intelligence, offering an independent Voice AI platform that enables businesses across industries to deliver high-quality conversational experiences to customers. The company's voice AI delivers speed and accuracy in numerous languages to product creators and service providers across retail, financial services, healthcare, automotive, smart devices, and restaurants via groundbreaking AI-driven products like Smart Answering, Smart Ordering, Dynamic Drive-Thru, and Amelia AI Agents.

Gupshup is a Mumbai-headquartered conversational messaging platform powering over six billion messages monthly across 30-plus channels including WhatsApp and SMS. Thousands of businesses in emerging markets such as India and Africa rely on it for marketing, sales, and support experiences. Its carrier-grade API and no-code tools connect with partnerships among operators, device manufacturers, and ISVs.

Sprout Social Inc develops a cloud software that brings together social messaging, data and workflows in a unified system of record, intelligence, and action. It has a centralized, secure and powerful platform that can scale horizontally across an organization to drive maximum business value. The firm generates majority revenue from software subscriptions.

Lumine Group Inc acquires, strengthens, and grows vertical market software businesses in the Communications and Media industry. The company's software solutions are designed to enable customers to boost productivity and operate more cost effectively, innovate more rapidly to address rapidly changing market needs and opportunities, grow top-line sales, improve customer service, and reduce customer churn.

Clay is a software company that provides a go-to-market data and automation platform for sales, marketing and revenue teams. The platform combines prospect data from many third-party providers with AI research agents so that teams can build target lists, enrich accounts, score leads and automate personalised outreach. Customers include technology companies and other business-to-business sellers, and the product is also used by a growing group of specialists known as go-to-market engineers. Clay earns subscription revenue, with usage-based credits for data enrichment and agent work. The company was founded in 2017 by Kareem Amin and Nicolae Rusan and is headquartered in New York. It acquired the alerting and workflow tool Avenue in 2025 to add intent-signal monitoring to its platform.

Zeta Global Holdings Corp is an omnichannel data-driven cloud platform that provides enterprises with consumer intelligence and marketing automation software. It serves enterprise customers across multiple industries, including financial services, insurance, telecommunications, automotive, travel and hospitality, and retail. Its Zeta Marketing Platform, or ZMP, is an omnichannel marketing platform with identity data at its core. The ZMP can analyze billions of structured and unstructured data points to predict consumer intent by leveraging sophisticated machine learning algorithms and the industry's opted-in data set for omnichannel marketing. The company operates in U.S, where it generates maximum revenue and Internationally as well.

Amdocs Ltd is a provider of software and services to communications, entertainment, and media service providers. The Company operates in a single segment and designs, develops, markets, supports, implements, and operates open and modular cloud offerings. Its portfolio includes solutions across digital business systems and legacy business and operational support systems, supporting multiple lines of business such as wireless, broadband, cable, fiber, satellite, and digital services. The Company leverages artificial intelligence to support digital transformation, cloud adoption, and intelligent network automation. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from North America and also operates in Europe and the rest of the world.

Klaviyo Inc is a technology company that provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to enable its customers to send the right messages at the right time across email, short message service, and push notifications, more accurately measure and predict performance, and deploy specific actions and campaigns. The platform combines proprietary data and application layers into one solution with machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. It is focused on marketing automation within eCommerce as its first application use case. It generates revenue through the sale of subscriptions to its customers for the use of its platform. Geographically, the company generates the majority of its revenue from the Americas, followed by EMEA and APAC.

Braze Inc is a customer engagement platform that powers customer-centric interactions between consumers and brands. The company provides solutions for Retail & E-commerce, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, and Travel & Hospitality related industries. The company offers a single, vertically integrated platform that encompasses the various functionalities, or layers, required for modern customer engagement: data ingestion, classification, orchestration, personalization, and action, all of which is supported by Sage AI by Braze, its AI engine designed to power AI functionality across all layers of this stack. It generates the majority of its revenue from the United States.

Founded in 1983, Pegasystems provides a suite of solutions for customer engagement and business process management. The company’s key offering is the Pega Infinity platform, which combines business process management with customer relationship management applications. The company focuses on enterprise-size customers in the financial, insurance, and healthcare industries.

6sense is a San Francisco-headquartered revenue intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence to detect anonymous buyer signals and prioritize high-intent accounts. The service equips sales, marketing, and customer success teams with predictive analytics to improve pipeline quality, sales velocity, and conversion rates. Founded in 2013, it serves B2B enterprises including Adobe, Dell, and IBM across technology and other sectors.

HubSpot develops a cloud-based customer platform built around customer-relationship-management data. Its applications cover marketing, sales, customer service, content, commerce, operations and related automation. Businesses subscribe to individual products or an integrated suite and use the platform to attract customers, manage pipelines and support ongoing relationships. Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah founded the company in 2006 after identifying a shift toward inbound digital marketing. HubSpot later broadened its product set beyond marketing into an artificial-intelligence-enabled customer platform and Smart CRM. The company serves scaling organizations globally and earns most of its revenue from software subscriptions. A person affiliated with HubSpot participated as an angel in Flare's 2026 round; the employer was not announced as a corporate investor.