Clay Raises 100 Million at 3.1 Billion Valuation with Backing from CapitalG, Sequoia and Meritech

Even the most glamorous sales jobs are often built on repetitive, mind-numbing labor: manually updating lead databases, cold-emailing strangers, and tracking down potential customers through clunky software. For years, companies accepted that as the price of doing business. Clay didn’t. This week, the New York-based startup announced a $100 million funding round at a $3.1 billion valuation, led by Alphabet’s investment arm CapitalG, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Meritech Capital. The raise comes just six months after Clay was valued at $1.25 billion, underscoring the velocity with which the company has grown and how eager investors are to back infrastructure tools that make go-to-market teams more efficient. Clay calls its users “go-to-market engineers,” and it�