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Best Outreach AI Tools

7 tools compared · 2026

7 ai outreach startups tracked, with the largest concentration in US. Total tracked funding: $448M.

All (7) By country Top ranked By funding

Tracked

7

Total Raised

$448M

Countries

1

Active Deals

0

Top by score

Apollo.io US $251M

Cardinal San Francisco, US $500K

Artisan San Francisco, US $37M

Octave San Francisco, US $5.5M

Floworks — $5M

Pin West Hollywood, US $3M

Clay New York, US $146M

Funding by year — AI Outreach

2023 → 2026

$100M

’23

$58M

’24

$125M

’25

$500K

’26

Top countries

By startup count

US 6

Stage breakdown

Latest round type

Seed 4
Series D 1
Series C 1
Series A 1

Top investors backing AI Outreach

Sequoia Capital

Lightspeed Faction

Nexus Venture Partners

HubSpot Ventures

Day One Ventures

Glade Brook Capital

Bain Capital Ventures

Recent rounds in AI Outreach

Date	Startup	Round	Amount
Jan 2026	Cardinal	Seed	$500K
Aug 2025	Clay	Series C	$100M
Apr 2025	Artisan	Series A	$25M
Sep 2024	Clay	Series B	$46M
Sep 2024	Artisan	Seed	$12M
Aug 2023	Apollo.io	Series D	$100M

All AI Outreach startups

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Apollo.io

AI-powered sales engagement platform with 275M+ contacts.

Cardinal

AI Platform for Precision Outbound

Artisan

AI sales agents that automate outbound, starting with Ava

Octave

The context layer powering agentic go-to-market teams

Floworks

Pin

End-to-end AI recruiting platform for sourcing, outreach and scheduling

Clay

AI-powered sales prospecting and data enrichment.