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Clay funding, valuation and investors
New York AI go-to-market platform — $115M Series D at $7.1B led by Wellington; last company ARR print is $100M in December 2025.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series D
$115M · September 2026
Latest known valuation
$7.1B
Series D · September 2026
Total disclosed equity funding
$215M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
growth · New York, New York
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Wellington Management
Other: Sequoia Capital , Andreessen Horowitz , BoxGroup
Overview
Clay provides data enrichment, automation and AI tools for sales and marketing teams. It announced a $115 million Series D at a $7.1 billion valuation in September 2026, led by Wellington. Its last directly reported ARR figure was $100 million for December 2025, not a fresh September revenue disclosure.
Why Clay is interesting
September 9, 2026: $115 million Series D at $7.1 billion led by Wellington. That is 2.3× the August 2025 $3.1 billion Series C and 42% above the January 2026 $5 billion employee tender. The Series D announcement did not print current ARR. Clay’s January tender post said $100 million ARR in December 2025 and 14,000 customers; September claimed 17,000+ customers.
Product & use cases
AI go-to-market platform that combines third-party and first-party data, workflow automation, and agents so revenue teams can find accounts, research them, and run outbound.
- B2B account identification and enrichment across many data sources
- GTM workflows and agents that draft outreach, presentations, and follow-ups
- Shared TAM context across sales, marketing, and RevOps
Key facts
- Sep 9, 2026: $115M Series D at $7.1B; Wellington lead (Business Wire / Reuters); no ARR in the announcement
- Last company ARR print: $100M in December 2025 (January 2026 tender post)
- Customers: 17,000+ (Sep wire) vs 14,000 (Jan tender)
- Jan 2026 DST-led employee tender at $5B (up to $55M employee sales) is secondary
- Prior: $100M Series C at $3.1B (Aug 2025, CapitalG).
Funding history (newest first)
Series D
2026-09 $115M Valuation: $7.1B- Wellington Management (lead)
- Sequoia Capital (participant)
- Andreessen Horowitz (participant)
- BoxGroup (participant)
Source: Read source · financialpost.com
Employee tender (secondary)
2026-01 Up to $55M employee sales Valuation: $5B- DST Global (lead)
Source: Read source · clay.com
Competitive landscape
Edge: A $7.1 billion Series D on a GTM data-and-agent canvas whose last printed ARR stock is December 2025 — diligence is the missing 2026 revenue print, not whether Clay has customers.
Clay’s September 2026 print ($115M at $7.1B, no current ARR) sits next to other AI-GTM marks only if you ignore the stale denominator. Compare it to 11x as a worker product, not as a like-for-like round.
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11x adjacent
A16z-backed digital workers (Alice/Jordan) sold as outcome-priced SDRs. See /startup/11x. Different product: workers vs Clay’s data/workflow canvas.
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Apollo / Outreach / ZoomInfo incumbent
Data and sales-engagement suites. Clay is pitching agents on top of a unified GTM context layer rather than a classic sequencer seat.
Market / IPO context
Editorial / static context — not a live quote.
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