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Partnering with Clay: On a Mission to Grow | Sequoia Capital

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Kareem and Varun have built a transformative platform for go-to-market teams—and transformed their own team in the process. When we first met Clay five years ago, we were excited to find an ambitious team with novel and compelling insights, building a great product for a large market. Yet, it was also a very different company from the one we know today. Back then, the platform was focused on workflow and data integration—an intuitive and powerful combination of spreadsheet interfaces, data ingestion, and functional programming that helped customers automate and streamline complex operations without extensive technical expertise. You could feed Clay a list of URLs of websites, for example, and in just a few clicks build a database of company descriptions, social profiles, review ratings, and more. It was impressive, simple, and truly innovative—no surprise it came from a team led by Kareem Amin and Nicolae Rusan. After starting their careers at Microsoft, their first company, Frame, was

Partnering with Clay: On a Mission to Grow Kareem and Varun have built a transformative platform for go-to-market teams—and transformed their own team in the process. By and Alfred Lin Published June 27, 2024 Clay co-founders Varun Anand and Kareem Amin. When we first met Clay five years ago, we were excited to find an ambitious team with novel and compelling insights, building a great product for a large market. Yet, it was also a very different company from the one we know today. Back then, the platform was focused on workflow and data integration—an intuitive and powerful combination of spr

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