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Unify
Workflow tool for automating warm outbound sales using CRM and intent data signals

Revenue

$5.60M

2025

Funding

$19.00M

2024

Details
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
CEO
Austin Hughes
Website
Milestones
FOUNDING YEAR
2023

Revenue

Sacra estimates that Unify hit $5.6M in annualized revenue in June 2025, growing 17% month-over-month and up 700% year-over-year. The company reached its first $1 million ARR milestone just 11 months after launch in late 2024, then doubled to $2 million ARR within two months.

Customer spending hit record levels in June 2025, with leading enterprise accounts now signed to contracts in the low- to mid-six figures. The company serves over 200 paying customers including high-growth AI companies like Cursor, Perplexity, Together.ai, and Decagon, as well as established players like SoFi and Flock Safety.

Unify adds 30-40 new customers monthly, with between 20-30% of its sales pipeline generated by using its own product for outbound prospecting. The revenue acceleration reflects strong product-market fit in the AI startup ecosystem, where companies need to rapidly scale sales operations without proportionally expanding headcount.

Valuation

Unify raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Battery Ventures in July 2025, valuing the company at $260 million. Other participating investors included OpenAI's Startup Fund, Emergence Capital, Thrive Capital, Abstract Ventures, TCP, and Capital 49.

The company has raised approximately $59 million in total funding across three rounds since January 2024. The Series B followed a $12 million Series A in October 2024 and a $6.6 million seed round in January 2024. Key investors across all rounds include Battery Ventures, OpenAI Startup Fund, Thrive Capital, Emergence Capital, Neo, and 20Sales.

Product

Unify is an AI-powered sales automation platform that helps B2B companies convert website visitors and other buying signals into personalized outbound campaigns without manual work from sales reps. The platform combines three traditionally separate functions: identifying prospects showing purchase intent, enriching their contact data, and executing multi-touch outreach sequences.

Sales teams create automated workflows called Plays using a drag-and-drop canvas. When someone visits a company's pricing page or shows other buying signals, Unify's AI agents automatically research the prospect's company and role, find their email and phone number, write personalized outreach messages, and launch email sequences or LinkedIn campaigns. The system integrates with CRMs like Salesforce to prevent duplicate outreach and ensure proper lead routing.

For a company like Cursor, Unify serves as a command center that processes thousands of website visitors daily, automatically identifying the most promising prospects and engaging them with tailored messages about relevant use cases in their industry. The platform handles deliverability through managed Gmail mailboxes and provides a unified inbox for managing responses across email, LinkedIn, and phone channels.

Business Model

Unify operates a B2B SaaS model targeting revenue teams at 10-500 person companies, particularly fast-growing AI startups and tech companies. The platform charges monthly subscriptions starting around $700 per month, with pricing based on seats, managed mailboxes, and usage credits for data enrichment and AI agent tasks.

The company's value proposition centers on helping small sales teams achieve outsized results through automation. Rather than hiring additional sales development representatives, customers use Unify to amplify their existing team's productivity by automating the research, personalization, and initial outreach process that typically takes hours per prospect.

Unify's gross margins benefit from its software-centric approach compared to traditional sales outsourcing firms. While the company pays for data enrichment and AI processing on a per-task basis, the core workflow automation and sequencing capabilities scale efficiently. The platform's usage-based pricing components allow revenue to grow alongside customer success, as companies processing more leads and sending more sequences generate higher monthly bills.

Competition

Vertically integrated platforms

Established players like 6sense and ZoomInfo are expanding from their core strengths into Unify's territory. 6sense leverages its extensive intent data graph and enterprise relationships to offer Intelligent Workflows that compete directly with Unify's automation capabilities. ZoomInfo bundles contact data, intent signals, and engagement tools into a comprehensive platform, using its massive database of 300+ million contacts as a competitive moat. These incumbents have deeper enterprise penetration and can offer more comprehensive solutions, but their complexity and high costs create openings for Unify in the mid-market.

All-in-one sales engagement tools

Apollo.io represents the biggest competitive threat with its combination of 265 million contacts, multichannel sequencing, and built-in intent data at significantly lower per-seat pricing. The platform cuts across Unify's target market by offering similar workflow automation with integrated phone dialing and broader contact coverage. Outreach and Salesloft dominate the enterprise sales engagement market but are expanding downmarket with AI-powered features and workflow automation that overlap with Unify's core functionality.

Specialized workflow platforms

Clay has emerged as a complementary competitor, with many customers using both platforms together. Clay excels at data enrichment and building target prospect lists, while Unify focuses on execution and campaign automation. However, the boundaries are blurring as both companies add overlapping features. Warmly and Factors.ai offer similar intent-driven automation but with different approaches to data sources and workflow complexity, creating a crowded field of specialized tools competing for the same budget and use cases.

TAM Expansion

New products

Unify is expanding beyond email automation into a comprehensive revenue intelligence platform. The company launched Unify Intent in 2025, aggregating signals from multiple data providers to give customers 25+ buyer intent indicators in a single interface. This moves Unify upstream into first-party web analytics and conversion optimization, competing with tools like 6sense and Demandbase on their home turf.

The platform is adding voice calling capabilities and LinkedIn automation to create truly multichannel workflows. AI personalization represents another major expansion vector, with Unify's machine learning models becoming more sophisticated at crafting one-to-one messages based on prospect research and behavioral signals.

Customer base expansion

While Unify initially focused on high-growth tech startups, the platform's website visitor identification now covers EMEA and APAC markets, opening doors to regulated industries like fintech and healthcare that need intent data but lack in-house sales operations expertise. The company is building enterprise features like role-based access controls and advanced auditing to move upmarket and capture larger contract values.

Geographic expansion beyond North America represents significant opportunity, with Unify adding region-specific data providers and compliance features for markets like Europe and Japan. The platform's ability to handle different privacy regulations and local business practices could expand the addressable market substantially.

Adjacent market opportunities

Unify's position at the intersection of marketing automation and sales engagement creates opportunities to capture budget from both categories. As the platform ingests more CRM and intent data, it can develop data products and benchmarking services similar to ZoomInfo's model, creating high-margin revenue streams from anonymized insights and industry benchmarks.

The company could also expand into marketing automation convergence, bridging the gap between tools like Marketo and Outreach by handling both lead nurturing and sales handoff in a single platform.

Risks

Data dependency: Unify's core value proposition relies heavily on third-party data providers for contact information, intent signals, and company intelligence. Changes in data availability, pricing, or quality from providers like ZoomInfo, 6sense, or LinkedIn could significantly impact the platform's effectiveness and margins. Privacy regulations like GDPR are tightening restrictions on data collection and usage, potentially limiting Unify's ability to gather and process the signals that power its automation.

Deliverability challenges: Email deliverability is becoming increasingly difficult as Gmail, Outlook, and other providers implement stricter bulk sender requirements and spam detection. Unify's managed mailbox approach helps but doesn't eliminate the fundamental risk that automated outreach gets flagged or blocked. Poor deliverability could undermine customer results and force expensive infrastructure investments in domain management and reputation monitoring.

Market saturation: The proliferation of AI-powered sales tools is creating inbox fatigue among buyers, potentially reducing response rates across all automated outreach platforms. As more companies adopt tools like Unify, Clay, and Apollo, the volume of personalized but automated messages is increasing faster than buyer tolerance, which could commoditize the entire category and force a race to the bottom on pricing and effectiveness.

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