Persana AI

Sales Agents with 100+ data sources to close more deals

Winter 2023

Active

generative-ai

sales

San Francisco

https://www.persana.ai/

Sales Agents with 100+ data sources to close more deals

Persana AI | The Agent Layer for Modern GTM Teams AI Superpowered Sales & GTM Intelligence — built on autonomous agents AI agents that research, enrich, and engage your best prospects — autonomously, not just automated. The Shift from Tools to Agents: Your GTM stack is fragmented. Multiple enrichment providers. Workflow tools with hard limits. Manual triggers. Disconnected data. Persana consolidates it all into one agentic platform that thinks, learns, and executes — 24/7. What Persana Does: 🔍 Multi-Source Intelligence – 100+ data sources tracking funding, hiring, tech changes, real-time intent signals, waterfall data for finding emails, phone numbers and more 🤖 Autonomous Execution – Run complex workflows across 100K+ prospects without manual triggers or platform limits 🧠 Continuous Learning – AI that adapts based on what actually converts to pipeline, not predefined rules ⚡ Native CRM Integration – Bi-directional sync with Salesforce, HubSpot, and your entire GTM stack Why Teams Choose Persana: Replace fragmented point solutions with one autonomous platform - Break free from workflow ceilings and platform constraints - Access comprehensive signal intelligence across all major data sources - Scale prospecting without adding headcount Results Customers See: ✓ 95% increase in qualified pipeline ✓ 65% faster sales cycles ✓ 3+ weeks per month reclaimed from manual work ✓ 30% higher conversion rates The Technology: Trained on 700M+ contacts and 200M+ companies, and 100+ data sources. Multi-agent architecture combining research, enrichment, and execution. Proprietary embeddings fine-tuned for GTM use cases. The Team: Built by LinkedIn engineering veterans who scaled systems to billions of users. Backed by Y Combinator, Dharmesh Shah, Race Capital, and Stage 2 Capital. 🚀 Join 15,000+ GTM professionals using agents to boost their revenue → persana.ai

Active Founders

Sriya Maram

Co-founder and CEO

Cofounder and CEO at Persana AI. I've previously been a PM at Linkedin working on customer data and have built a successful generative AI tool in the past. I'm now focused on helping businesses leverage the incredible power of AI and making it more accessible.

Sriya Maram

Co-founder and CEO

Rush Shahani

Founder

Co-Founder of Persana AI. I've been an AI Engineer focused on NLP for the last 5 years. Prev experience: LinkedIn, ElementAI (acquired), Shopify

Rush Shahani

Founder

Co-Founder of Persana AI. I've been an AI Engineer focused on NLP for the last 5 years. Prev experience: LinkedIn, ElementAI (acquired), Shopify

👋 Hey YC we're Sriya and Rush and we're building Persana AI!

❌ The Problem

In this macro-environment, it is now more important than ever for sales teams to concentrate their efforts on the most promising prospects and close more deals efficiently. However data is distributed across hundreds of different touch-points like CRMs and Outreach, causing teams to lose out on ripe opportunities. On top of this, writing hundreds of personalized emails across different lead stages is a cumbersome task that takes time away from actually selling to qualified leads.

✨ Our Solution

Persana AI is an AI copilot for sales teams to easily identify promising leads by combining CRM data with real-time signals. The AI can then quickly generates personalized outbound in your company's voice so sales teams can make the most of ripe opportunities. For instance, when a lead visits the company website or gets funding, Persana AI can notify the sales team and generate an email to send out right away.

⚙️ How it works

Persana AI's proprietary engine brings together historical email campaign data, CRM and internal data, and publicly available data points to build a fine-tuned model for the team. Additionally, leveraging Persana's proprietary engine, we are able to identify the leads with the highest likelihood of conversion, allowing sales teams to focus their efforts on these leads and achieve a higher ROI in less time.

🎯 Our Products

👉 Personalized email combining different sources of insights

👉 Chrome Extension to get insights and generate anywhere!

👉 Quickly get answers and notified about high intent leads.

🤝 Meet The Team

Sriya and Rush met while working at Linkedin where they worked on customer data platform and search teams respectively. Rush has been working in the NLP/gen-AI space for over 4 years and Sriya has been working in the CDP/AI space to help businesses make the most of their data. They’ve launched a successful AI product before and one of the key insights they uncovered was generic AI models don’t perform well for business use-cases - leading them to build Persana AI.