Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5M to bring AI-powered context to sales intelligence
Ask any salesperson how much information they’d like on a prospective customer and you’ll never hear the end of it. That’s the premise driving the crowded sales intelligence market, which today has services that can do everything from helping to identify prospects and surface background about them, to even writing the pitch and performing autonomous follow-ups. But sales teams need more than data; they want context. Sumble, a startup out of San Francisco, is trying to provide that context by trawling the web across social media, job boards, company sites, regulatory filings and so on, to surface information about what’s happening inside companies. The brainchild of Anthony Goldbloom and Ben Hamner, the founders of data science and machine learning community Kaggle,…
