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Backstory

The AI Data platform that learns from every customer interaction and enhances your full GTM motion.

2016
2017 – 2019
2020 – 2022
2022 – 2024
2025 – TODAY
Founded & Funded
Activity Entity Engine & $200M Raised
AI Use-Cases Built Natively into CRM
Enterprise Scale & Deep Investment
Sales Excellence Subject Matter Org
Goals of call
Company Journey & Evolution
2016
2017 – 2019
2020 – 2022
2022 – 2024
2025 – Today

Founded & Funded

Founded in San Francisco. Accepted into Y Combinator (Summer 2016). Early backing from Andreessen Horowitz & ICONIQ Capital.

Y Combinator '16a16zICONIQ

Activity Entity Engine & $200M Raised

Invented the patented Activity Entity Engine, a data infrastructure that auto-captures every email, call & meeting and maps it to CRM records. 83 patents filed. $200M+ raised across Series B to D.

83 Patents$200M RaisedActivity Engine

AI Use-Cases Built Natively into CRM

Pipeline Management, Account Planning & Mapping, Relationship Intelligence, and Deal Inspection use-cases deployed natively inside Salesforce, Dynamics & Oracle. Trained on $239B in closed deals.

CRM NativeBest-In-Class

Enterprise Scale & Deep Investment

Landed marquee enterprise customers. Heavy investment in AI model training on billions of real sales interactions. Recognized by Gartner, Forbes AI 50, Inc. 5000 & Deloitte Fast 500.

NVIDIAOpenAIIBMGartner

Sales Excellence Subject Matter Org

Evolved into the definitive Sales AI consulting org with software. Became the partner for bringing AI into existing tools and workflows natively, driving modern AI adoption across large enterprises. MCP integrations with Claude, ChatGPT & Gemini. 100K+ daily sellers.

AI AdoptionMCP Integrations100K+ Sellers
By the Numbers
83Patents Filed
$200M+Total Funding
$239BDeals Trained On
100K+Daily Active Sellers
From data infrastructure to answers.
A decade of AI training powering the future of revenue intelligence.
Backstory

The problem: revenue teams lack visibility and context to execute effectively.

Our top observations of the market.

Teams operating in isolation

Sales
CS
Marketing
RevOps
Leadership
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The Real Problems Worth Solving

Sales & Success Challenges

Operational fatigue

Manual contact creation, MEDDPICC, note taking, account plans, and meeting prep drain rep time.

Visibility challenges

Reps and leaders don't see gaps until it's too late. Reps skip steps, forget to follow up, and miss opportunities.

Frontline leadership challenges

Leaders forecast on hope vs. data. With limited time, they struggle to know where to lean in and help win.

Sales & CS out of sync

Competing goals and no visibility into each other's efforts. Success misses buying signals sales would identify.

RevOps & Marketing Challenges

Coverage & penetration is manual

Account coverage lives in one-off reports that fall out of sync and are difficult to maintain or trust.

Sales productivity trends

Hard to see where reps are spending their time — and the actual outputs of those efforts.

Operational excellence gaps

Bottlenecks are impossible to unblock without the right visibility across the motion.

Massive marketing losses

Tens of thousands of contacts never make it into the cycle for marketing to nurture — some of the highest-quality leads in the game.

Leadership Challenges

Forecasts aren't defensible

Context is lost as data rolls up. It's hard to get a real picture as fast as the board needs it.

Too much time reading the macro

The manpower required to piece together an accurate view of the business is a huge efficiency loss.

Hard to focus on what matters

Leaders struggle to identify the most valuable areas of the business to lean into to drive the most success.

No answers after hours

Leaders can't get answers to hard questions when their team isn't available or it's late at night.

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Backstory + Sales AI

AI Adoption

Backstory helps revenue organizations adopt AI into their sales workflows.

Account & Deal Leadership briefings
Rep account coverage
Pipeline effort & risk analysis
Engagement Health across territories
Sales methodology adoption health
Automatic relationship map visibility
AI Leadership dashboards
AI Agents for answers, growth, and risk
Backstory + Sales AI Across The Full Cycle