Clay Raises $115M Series D at $7.1B Valuation, More Than Doubling Its Worth in One Year

Quick Facts

• Clay closed a $115 million Series D led by Wellington Management at a $7.1 billion valuation, more than double its $3.1 billion Series C valuation from August 2025.
• The company now serves more than 17,000 customers, including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, Siemens, and 80% of the Forbes AI 50.
• Sacra estimates Clay reached $150 million in annual recurring revenue in May 2026, up from $108 million at the end of 2025.

Clay, the AI go-to-market platform, has raised $115 million in a Series D round led by Wellington Management. The deal values the Brooklyn-based company at $7.1 billion, up from $3.1 billion just 13 months ago.

Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, CapitalG, Meritech, DST, StepStone, BoxGroup, Boldstart, Bloomberg Beta, and Evolution also participated in the round.

The valuation trajectory has been steep. Clay was worth $3.1 billion after its Series C in August 2025. A January 2026 employee tender offer led by DST Global marked the company at $5 billion. The new round pushes that figure to $7.1 billion less than eight months later.

CEO Kareem Amin said the company is moving beyond data aggregation. “We started by aggregating the best data for B2B companies,” Amin said. “Then, we built the infrastructure to run any personalized campaign on top of it. Now, we’re building agents that can help grow your company for you.”

Clay pulls data from more than 150 external sources and uses AI agents to research prospects, track competitor signals, and personalize outbound sales at scale. Its AI agent has completed more than 1.5 billion lifetime tasks. The company went from $1 million to $100 million in annual recurring revenue in two years. Sacra estimates ARR hit $150 million in May 2026.

Customer count has grown from 10,000 a year ago to more than 17,000 today. The roster includes Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Workday, and Siemens. Clay also claims 80% of the Forbes AI 50 as customers.

In March 2026, the company restructured its pricing model. It moved from a single credit-based system to a dual-meter model. Data Credits cover third-party enrichment and AI costs. Actions meter the execution steps inside a workflow.

Clay has promoted the role of “GTM engineer” — a hybrid data-and-sales position built around operating its platform. Amin and co-founder Varun Anand coined the term in 2023. There are now more than 280 open GTM engineering roles at companies including Cursor, Webflow, Notion, and Lovable. The median salary for the role is $160,000, about 20% above traditional sales operations positions.

Alongside the funding, Clay announced a $1 million scholarship fund to train GTM engineers. Amin and Romanian co-founder Nicolae Rusan originally set out in 2017 to make programming accessible to non-coders. The two met at McGill University and later worked together at Microsoft. Rusan has since left the company.

Clay now employs more than 300 people. The company will hold its second annual user conference, Sculpt, on Oct. 8 in San Francisco, where it plans to preview upcoming product launches.

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