The sources say that Clay secures a new tour of 3 billion dollars

Clay, an emerging sales automation company, raised a round of 3 billion dollars in the chain C, led by Capitalg, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal.

Clay and Capitalg did not respond to the comment.

The new round comes just one month after the start -up announcement in New York, that it will allow most of its employees to sell some of their shares in a $ 1.5 billion a rating. Sequoia led this secondary deal, known as the tender offer, which agreed to purchase up to $ 20 million in employee shares.

Although it may seem that the employees who sold shares at a much smaller price than the company deserves now a bad deal, they may have another chance to sell more shares to evaluate the next year. Karim Amin, co -founder and CEO of Clay, told Techcrunch in May that he hoped to make tender offers on an annual basis.

Clay was founded in 2017, but she did not reach her steps even a few years ago, when the Secretary of the start -up focus decided to enable sales and marketers with artificial intelligence, helping them to discover the main data and automate going to the market. Clay Clay representatives allow to find and update potential customer lists and write awareness -raising emails.

Today, Clay tools are used by thousands of customers, starting with large companies such as Openai, Hubspot and Canva to more than 100 small consulting agencies that help other companies benefit from Clay for their market efforts.

The company is competing with sales technology platforms including zoominfo and lusha and Apollo.ioAs well as the latest offers unite A joint room.

Besides Sequoia, current investors include Clay Meritech Capital, Boldstart Ventures, MAPLE VC, First Round Capital and Box Group.