Clay
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$159M
6 rounds on record
Latest round
$115M
Series D · Sep 2026 · 1 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
57
+11 posted in 30 days
Backers
8
First Round, Abstract
The money's age
Fresh money
1 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
43/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 9
Raised a round Series D $115M
Jan 22, 2025
Raised a round Series B $40M · Clay
Feb 5, 2024
Board appointment David Yalland, Director · SEC Form D
Jan 25, 2024
Raised a round Convertible Note $854k · SEC Form D
May 10, 2021
Took on debt financing $820k · SEC Form D
May 10, 2021
Took on debt financing $125k · SEC Form D
May 10, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $3.1M · SEC Form D
2017
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.29%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
4
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | Sep 2026 | $115M | — | nytimes.com |
| Series B | Jan 2025 | $40M | — | Clay |
| Convertible Note | Jan 2024 | $854k | — | SEC Form D |
| Debt Financing | May 2021 | $125k | — | SEC Form D |
| Debt Financing | May 2021 | $820k | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | May 2021 | $3.1M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Clay, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Louis SiclaitExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
First Round 
Abstract 
Boldstart Ventures 
BoxGroup 
Evolution Equity Partners 
Frontline 
Sapphire Ventures 
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How Clay hires
Truth index
B 78/100
Median time to fill
75 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
67%
Reposted roles
0%
Clay scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 67% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 75 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Clay is a go-to-market software company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2017. The company builds a spreadsheet-like workspace that pulls company and contact data from more than a hundred enrichment providers, then uses AI agents to research prospects and draft personalised outreach. It sells to sales and growth teams that previously stitched this work together from separate data vendors and sequencing tools.
News
Clay Raises $115M to be the AI Growth Engine for Every Company
NEW YORK, September 09, 2026--Clay, the AI go-to-market company, today announced a $115 million Series D financing at a $7.1 billion valuation, led by Wellington, with participation from Sequoia, StepStone, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Perennial, Meritech,
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Clay raises $115M to be the AI growth engine for every company - The GTM with Clay Blog
Clay has raised $115M in Series D funding at a $7.1B valuation, following 4x revenue growth in 2025. More than 17k customers, including 80% of the Forbes AI50 and companies like Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Visa, Siemens, and UPS, use Cl
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Clay - Outside-In Analysis
$1M to $100M ARR in two years. A $5B valuation pricing in a platform future still being built. An outside-in read on Clay
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The Industry Mourns The Loss Of Bruce Clay - The Father Of SEO
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Git clay
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Clay over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
69
Postings analysed
73
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
Python25%
TypeScript22%
SQL21%
JavaScript16%
Frameworks & libraries
Playwright12%
React.js12%
Dagster5%
Streamlit3%
Databases
PostgreSQL15%
OpenSearch15%
Redis15%
Amazon Aurora14%
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic100%
OpenAI92%
AWS15%
Datadog15%
AI & ML
Claude7%
LLM7%
ChatGPT3%
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69 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$245k
Typical range
$110k – $375k
Open positions
48
35
Jobs
Middle
31.4%
Senior
40%
Staff
20%
Principal
2.9%
Architect
5.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 11 | $230k | $150k – $375k |
| Senior | 14 | $233k | $160k – $350k |
| Staff | 7 | $265k | $220k – $300k |
| Principal | 1 | $300k | $300k |
| Architect | 2 | $300k | $270k – $330k |
Highest paying role
Sales Manager (GTME)
$375k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Clay
By role, level and city, against the market · 48 jobs with pay
People
Louis Siclait
Executive Officer, Director
Vince Hankes
Director
Sebastien Siclait
Director
David Yalland
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
69/100
Growing
Open positions
58
6 opened / 11 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
56 days
faster than 25% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
42%
Backend
20% ▼
Finance
9% ▼
Support
4% ▼
Marketing
4%
Operations
4% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added EU AI Act to stack
Oct 2026
Added Embeddings to stack
Oct 2026
Added Go to stack
Sep 2026
Added ITSM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added ITIL to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Go to stack
Sep 2026
Added Ent to stack
Sep 2026
New location: London
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon S3 to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
41 open roles 32 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 200-500 est. staff $239k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Backend, Finance
San Francisco
United States
Engineering / R&D Registered seat
17 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 50-200 est. staff $259k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Backend, Data Science
London
United Kingdom
Sales office
9 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 11% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Legal, Customer Success
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Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Redis
OpenSearch
Amazon Aurora
AI/ML
OpenAI
Anthropic
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
CircleCI
Datadog
Netlify
AWS
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Financials
Total raised
$159.9M
Latest round
Series D
Funding rounds
6