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Clay.com
Company blog · clay.com/blogstartupsbusinessai
Clay.com is the company blog at clay.com, writing about startups, business and ai. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Clay's pages for company and funding profiles (dossiers) and for its sales prospecting product. The comments are bare links or citations and do not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Infrastructure to get any data, run agentic workflows, and launch GTM plays.
What Hacker News says?
Two off the top of my head: - https://www.clay.com/ - https://www.granola.ai/ There are a lot of tools in the sales space which fit your criteria.
Comment linking /
on “AI Horseless Carriages”Submitted Why Clay Has an AI Writing Policy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.ycombinator.com/companies/brex https://www.clay.com/dossier/brex-funding https://www.brex.com/
Comment linking /dossier/brex-funding
on “Capital One Strikes $5.15B Deal for Fintech Brex (YC W17)”Submitted Clay raises $115M Series D as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEarlier this year, we launched Find AI v1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40801494 . It was a tool for searching LinkedIn-style data with natural language queries. It worked well for tech-focused searches, but the dataset was small and queries were limited. With v3 (yes a 2 version improvement), we’ve overhauled everything. Our new algorithm uses deep research agents combining multiple data sources and can sea…
Comment linking /university/lesson/find-ai-integration-overview
on “Find AI v3 – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn (1B+ Profiles) + New API”Submitted Clay Internal Pricing Memo as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> They also got 150M 11 years ago and 1 billion 7 year ago, they where quite large in 2022. I had to look that up, you're talking about investment there, not earned revenue. The 150M was their initial funding (actually 130M I think https://www.clay.com/dossier/openai-funding ) The 1B was from Microsoft in 2019: https://openai.com/index/microsoft-invests-in-and-partners-w... In 2022 they only had 335 employees (accor…
Comment linking /dossier/openai-funding
on “Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn”Submitted Clay raises $100M at $3.1B valuation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clay raises $40M at a $1.25B valuation as a story · 1 points
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