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Dated briefs on what competitive intelligence vendors and go-to-market tools shipped, raised, and changed. Each one is written from public evidence and links to it.
AlphaSense Valuation: $4B in 2024, $7.5B in June 2026
AlphaSense is valued at $7.5 billion. It raised $350 million at that valuation on June 3, 2026, and passed $600 million in ARR in Q1 2026. This page covers the step before that: the March 2026 reports of a round above the $4 billion valuation of June 2024, when ARR had passed $500 million.
Updated October 14, 2026
Klue Funding: $62M Series B Led by Tiger Global (2021)
Klue raised a $62 million Series B on December 1, 2021. Tiger Global Management led the round and Salesforce Ventures took part. Klue's press release put its total funding at $81 million since 2015. This page explains what the round meant for competitive enablement buyers, and what Klue did after it.
Updated October 14, 2026
What Happened to Kompyte? Now Part of Adobe via Semrush
Kompyte still runs as the competitive intelligence module inside Semrush. Semrush bought Kompyte in February 2022. Adobe completed its acquisition of Semrush on April 28, 2026, so Kompyte is now part of Adobe. This page gives the timeline, what changes for Kompyte users, and the questions to ask your account team before you renew.
Updated October 14, 2026
Similarweb CEO Succession and Pricing Plans (2026)
Michael Akkerman becomes Similarweb CEO on November 2, 2026. He replaces founder Or Offer, who started the search in May 2026. Similarweb sells three self-service plans: Competitive Intelligence at $199 a month, Competitive Intel & SEO & AEO at $399, and the plan with Ads at $649. Annual billing costs less. We checked the prices on October 14, 2026.
Updated October 14, 2026
HubSpot Launches Revenue Hub, Opens Breeze Prospecting Agent to All
HubSpot renamed Commerce Hub to Revenue Hub and made its Breeze Prospecting Agent generally available to all paid customers, with a new Seamless integration.
Updated July 13, 2026
Lyzr Raises $100M Series B After Letting Its Own AI Agent Run the Fundraise
Lyzr raised a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation after its own AI agent, SivaClaw, fielded questions from 130+ investors and drafted investment memos.
Updated July 13, 2026
Quid Q3 2026: Reputation Use Cases Overtake Innovation Scouting
Quid's Q3 2026 report analyzes nearly 40,000 research activities across 12 industries and finds reputation use cases now outrank innovation scouting.
Updated July 13, 2026
CiteLens Study: AI Search Cites a Different Web Than Google Ranks
A CiteLens study of 500 commercial prompts finds 60% of AI Overview citations never rank in Google's organic top 10 — and engines diverge sharply.
Updated July 11, 2026
ZoomInfo Launches GTM.AI CLI, Putting Verified Data in the Terminal
ZoomInfo shipped an open-source GTM.AI CLI on July 9, giving developers, GTM engineers, and AI agents terminal access to its verified GTM Context Graph.
Updated July 11, 2026
ZoomInfo Hit With Securities Fraud Class Action Over AI Integration
ZoomInfo faces a securities fraud class action alleging it masked AI-driven customer retention losses before a 33% stock drop. Lead-plaintiff deadline Aug 24.
Updated July 11, 2026
Alta Raises $25M Series A for AI GTM Agents
Alta raised a $25 million Series A on July 8, 2026, led by IN Venture, the venture arm of Sumitomo Corporation. Its total funding is about $32 million. Alta runs a set of AI agents for go-to-market teams that share one context layer. It reports about $15 million in ARR and targets $30 million by the end of 2026.
Updated July 10, 2026
Banzai Acquires ConnectAndSell for $13.2M, Doubling Revenue on Conversation Data
Banzai completed its $13.2M acquisition of ConnectAndSell on July 2, 2026, doubling revenue and folding live sales conversation data into its AI platform.
Updated July 10, 2026
Microsoft Sales Agent Hits GA, Pushing Deal Intelligence Into Work
Microsoft made Sales Agent generally available on July 2, 2026, embedding deal intelligence into Outlook, Teams and Copilot on live CRM data via MCP.
Updated July 09, 2026
Salesforce Ships Agentforce Commerce GA With Shopper and Buyer Agents
Salesforce made Agentforce Commerce generally available on July 6, 2026 with Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents plus native ChatGPT integration.
Updated July 09, 2026
Autumn AI Launches Real-Time Signal Intelligence for GTM Agents
YC-backed Autumn AI launches real-time signal intelligence for GTM teams, monitoring posts, commits, and blogs with an MCP that plugs into Claude and Cursor.
Updated July 08, 2026
Guideline Debuts Verified Ad Intelligence for ChatGPT and Perplexity
Guideline launches verified, transaction-level ad intelligence for AI platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity, giving brands ground-truth data on AI ad spend.
Updated July 08, 2026
S&P Global Splits Market Intelligence Into Kensho and Enterprise Units
S&P Global reorganizes Market Intelligence into Kensho Data & Platforms and Enterprise Solutions verticals to accelerate agentic AI workflows and platforms.
Updated July 08, 2026
Aligned Raises $60M for AI-Native Deal Execution Layer
Aligned closed a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital to build an AI-native deal execution layer for B2B sales. What it means for revenue teams.
Updated July 07, 2026
AWS and Microsoft Bet Billions on Forward-Deployed AI Engineers
AWS committed $1B and Microsoft $2.5B to embed forward-deployed AI engineers inside enterprises. Why implementation is now the competitive battleground.
Updated July 07, 2026
Perplexity Takes Its Computer Agent Into Enterprise Market Intelligence
Perplexity pushed its multi-model Computer agent into the enterprise with market intelligence and competitor-monitoring use cases. What it means for CI teams.
Updated July 07, 2026
Idea Consult Launches Intellihance, an AI Market Intelligence Platform
Idea Consult launched Intellihance, a $699-per-project AI market intelligence tool that turns a business question into full analysis in under 20 minutes.
Updated July 06, 2026
Gartner Names Blackbird.AI a Market Shaper in Narrative Intelligence Quadrant
Gartner's inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for Narrative Intelligence names Blackbird.AI a Market Shaper, formalizing a new intelligence category.
Updated July 05, 2026
Profound Launches Aim, an Always-On Agent Turning AI Search Signals Into Work
Profound launched Aim, an always-on agent that turns AI search signals into prioritized marketing work and routes execution to Profound Agents.
Updated July 05, 2026
Zoom Acquires Common Room to Add Buyer Intelligence to Its Revenue Platform
Zoom's July 2026 deal to acquire Common Room adds AI-native buyer intelligence to Zoom Revenue Accelerator. What it means for GTM and revenue teams.
Updated July 05, 2026
geoSurge Raises $12M Seed to Own Brand Visibility in AI Search
London's geoSurge raises a $12M seed led by AlbionVC for 'Corpus Engineering' — shaping how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude represent brands.
Updated July 04, 2026
Gong and Microsoft: Gong in Copilot, Teams and Marketplace
Gong expanded its Microsoft partnership on July 1, 2026. Enterprises can now buy Gong in Microsoft Marketplace and count the spend toward their Azure commitment. Gong's AI now works inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, Outlook, Dynamics 365 and Copilot Studio. Copilot reads Gong data through Gong's MCP server.
Updated July 04, 2026
Quantifind Lands $200M to Scale AI-Native Risk Intelligence
Quantifind raises $200M led by Summit Partners to scale AI-native risk intelligence and governed agentic middleware for modern risk operations.
Updated July 04, 2026
CRM Giants Are Buying the Buyer-Intent Layer
HubSpot's Warmly deal caps a 2026 wave of CRM vendors buying the buyer-intent and signal layer. What the consolidation means for GTM tooling.
Updated July 03, 2026
HubSpot Acquires Warmly to Own Person-Level Buyer Intent
HubSpot is acquiring Warmly for person-level website intent and its Inbound and TAM agents. What the deal signals for CI and GTM teams.
Updated July 03, 2026
LeapXpert Raises $180M as Communication Intelligence Scales
LeapXpert raised $180M led by Riverwood Capital to turn governed enterprise messaging into intelligence. What it signals for revenue teams.
Updated July 03, 2026
Highwire Launches AcroIntelligence, a Large Media Model for Competitive Intel
Highwire's AcroIntelligence is a Large Media Model that turns earned coverage, social data, and competitor activity into early-warning narrative intelligence.
Updated July 01, 2026
RedCloud Launches RedAI Strategy for Predictive FMCG Market Intelligence
RedCloud's RedAI Strategy delivers predictive FMCG market intelligence, backed by the RAID engine trained on $6.9B in trade data across the supply chain.
Updated July 01, 2026
ZoomInfo Powers Salesforce Agentforce Prospecting Agent With GTM.AI
Salesforce's Agentforce Prospecting Agent is now generally available, grounded on ZoomInfo's GTM.AI context layer over MCP for verified prospecting data.
Updated July 01, 2026
AlphaSense Launches Sentiment Indices to Quantify Executive Tone Shifts
AlphaSense launched Sentiment Indices that score executive tone across earnings transcripts in 15 sectors as an early-warning signal for market risk.
Updated June 30, 2026
Semrush Expands AI Visibility Index, Analyzing 126M AI Search Prompts
Semrush's 2026 AI Visibility Index scaled to 126M U.S. AI search prompts across 22 industries and four platforms, mapping how brands get cited in AI search.
Updated June 30, 2026
ZoomInfo's GTM.AI Becomes the Context Layer for Amazon Quick Suite Agents
ZoomInfo's GTM.AI now grounds Amazon Quick Suite AI agents in verified data on 100M companies and 500M contacts via a custom MCP server.
Updated June 30, 2026
AlphaSense and Accenture Partner on Agentic Market Intelligence
Accenture Ventures invests in AlphaSense and becomes its first strategic channel partner to embed agentic market intelligence into enterprises.
Updated June 29, 2026
Attention Raises $30M Series B for Agentic Revenue Teams
Attention raises $30M Series B led by RTP Global to move from call recording into agentic revenue execution, running 20M+ agent actions a month.
Updated June 29, 2026
Salesforce State of Sales 2026: Key Stats on AI Agents
Salesforce's State of Sales 2026 surveyed 4,050 sales professionals in August and September 2025. 87% of sales teams use AI. 54% of sellers have used AI agents, and nearly 9 in 10 plan to by 2027. 51% of sales leaders with AI say disconnected systems slow their AI work, and 74% of sales professionals now focus on data cleansing.
Updated June 29, 2026
Klue Supply Chain Breach Exposes Salesforce CRM Data at Major Firms
The Icarus group abused OAuth tokens in a Klue supply chain attack, exfiltrating Salesforce CRM data from Huntress, LastPass, Tanium and others.
Updated June 27, 2026
Salesforce Summer '26 Pushes the Agentic Enterprise With Momentum
Salesforce Summer '26 takes Agentforce multi-agent orchestration to GA and adds Momentum conversation intelligence, squaring it against Gong and Clari.
Updated June 27, 2026
Allego Report: 77% of Orgs See Revenue Gains from AI
Allego's 2026 research finds 77% of orgs report AI revenue gains, yet 63% remain in early adoption. Key findings for CI and enablement teams.
Updated June 17, 2026
AlphaSense Raises $350M at $7.5B Valuation, Passes $600M ARR
AlphaSense raised $350 million on June 3, 2026, at a $7.5 billion valuation. That is nearly double its $4 billion valuation of June 2024. ARR passed $600 million in Q1 2026, up from $500 million in October 2025. Vitruvian Partners, Accenture Ventures and J.P. Morgan Asset Management led the round.
Updated June 17, 2026
Mindtickle Report: AI Content Up 430%, Coaching Load Down 45%
Mindtickle's 2026 enablement report shows AI content up 430% YoY, coaching load down 45%, and engagement jumping from 4% to 55%.
Updated June 17, 2026
Semrush Launches AI Traffic Insights for Competitor Analysis
Semrush Traffic Insights uses AI to explain competitor traffic spikes and drops. What the feature does and why it matters for CI teams.
Updated June 17, 2026
Klue Launches AI-First Win-Loss Suite for Full-Deal Intelligence
Klue launched its AI-First Win-Loss Suite with four capture methods — AI seller debriefs, field signals, AI buyer interviews, and human interviews.
Updated June 09, 2026
Semrush Launches MCP Connector Inside Perplexity AI Search
Semrush launched its MCP connector inside Perplexity, giving all Perplexity Computer users access to live search intelligence data within AI workflows.
Updated June 09, 2026
ZoomInfo Becomes Native GTM App Inside OpenAI Codex for Work
ZoomInfo launched as a native app inside OpenAI Codex for Work, embedding verified GTM data and 11 sales skills directly into AI agent workflows.
Updated June 09, 2026
Google May 2026 Core Update Reshapes Brand Visibility and CI Strategies
Google's May 2026 core update reinforces E-E-A-T and penalizes thin content. CI teams need to monitor post-update ranking shifts for competitive threats.
Updated June 01, 2026
Semrush Embeds Search Intelligence Inside Lovable's AI App Builder
Semrush integrates 28B keywords and 43T backlinks into Lovable's AI app builder, making search intelligence available during creation — not after launch.
Updated June 01, 2026
Richardson Launches Accelerate Prism: AI System for Sales Behavior Change
Richardson launched Accelerate Prism, an AI system connecting training, coaching, and field execution to drive measurable sales behavior change.
Updated May 28, 2026
Gartner 2026: 67% of B2B Buyers Prefer a Rep-Free Purchase
Gartner surveyed 646 B2B buyers in August and September 2025 and published the results on March 9, 2026. 67% prefer to buy without a sales rep, up from 61% in the 2025 survey. 45% used AI tools during a recent purchase. This page explains the change and what it means for the content your buyers read before they call you.
Updated May 27, 2026
Boomi Partners with Gong to Pipe Revenue AI Signals into Agent Workflows
Boomi and Gong integrate via MCP registry so AI agents can act on live revenue signals, routing competitive intel from calls into enterprise workflows.
Updated May 26, 2026
Gartner: 31% of CSOs Say Proving AI ROI Is Their Top Challenge
Gartner survey of 227 CSOs finds 31% cite proving AI ROI as a top challenge in 2026, even as AI saves sellers nearly five hours per week.
Updated May 26, 2026
Leadbay Raises $4.3M to Bring AI Sales Intelligence to Underserved SMBs
YC-backed Leadbay raises $4.3M seed round to target SMBs in construction, manufacturing, and hospitality that traditional sales intelligence platforms miss.
Updated May 22, 2026
Highspot Launches GTM Agent and MCP Server Ahead of Seismic Merger
Highspot's Spring 2026 launch introduces GTM Agent, Deal Agent, and MCP Server with OpenAI and Anthropic integrations before the Seismic merger closes.
Updated May 20, 2026
OpenAI Deployment Company: $4B to Put AI Engineers In-House
OpenAI launched the OpenAI Deployment Company on May 12, 2026. It is a majority-owned subsidiary with more than $4 billion in committed capital from 19 firms, and TPG leads the group. It places AI engineers inside client companies to build production AI systems. OpenAI also agreed to buy Tomoro, a UK consultancy with about 150 forward deployed engineers.
Updated May 20, 2026
Semrush Adds Reddit and Sentiment Tracking to AI Search Visibility
Semrush integrates Otterly.AI for AI search monitoring with new Reddit and negative sentiment analysis. What it means for CI and brand visibility teams.
Updated May 20, 2026
Monaco Raises $50M Series B Led by Benchmark
Monaco raised a $50 million Series B led by Benchmark on May 12, 2026. Its total funding is now more than $85 million. Sam Blond, former head of sales at Brex, founded it with Brian Blond, Abishek Viswanathan and Malay Desai. Monaco sells one AI sales platform to replace the CRM, prospecting and outreach tools that a sales team uses today.
Updated May 17, 2026
S&P Global Integrates Energy Intelligence into Capital IQ Pro with GenAI
S&P Global brings energy intelligence into Capital IQ Pro with GenAI tools ChatIQ and Document Intelligence. What cross-domain integration signals for CI.
Updated May 17, 2026
Fathom AI Revenue: $300K ARR in 12 Weeks, $5M Target
Fathom AI reached an estimated $300,000 in ARR within 12 weeks of launch, Fortune reported on April 18, 2026. It projects $5 million in ARR from 15 to 18 enterprise customers by the end of 2026. Three founders run it with 12 AI agents, no employees and no venture funding. It sells account intelligence to sales reps in medical aesthetics.
Updated May 15, 2026
Klue Acquires Ignition to Accelerate Agentic Competitive Intelligence
Klue acquired Ignition to build agentic CI with Compete Agent for real-time deal intelligence. What the Klue 2.0 roadmap means for CI teams.
Updated May 15, 2026
PwC 2026 AI Performance Study: 20% of Firms Get 74% of Value
PwC's 2026 AI Performance Study, published April 13, 2026, surveyed 1,217 senior executives in 25 sectors. 20% of companies capture about 74% of the economic value from AI. These leaders use AI to find growth across industry lines as well as to cut costs. Their AI-driven revenue and efficiency gains are 7.2 times the average.
Updated May 15, 2026
Imparta Launches i-Coach.AI for Agentic Connected Loop Enablement
Imparta launches i-Coach.AI, an agentic sales enablement platform using a connected loop approach with MCP and A2UI compliance for enterprise orchestration.
Updated May 14, 2026
Sprout Social Unveils AI-Powered Social Intelligence Platform
Sprout Social launches its AI-powered social intelligence platform with Trellis agent expansion across publishing, listening, inbox, and reporting.
Updated May 14, 2026
Adthena Launches First ChatGPT Ads Intelligence Platform
Adthena ships the first competitive intelligence tool for ChatGPT ads, monitoring 300k+ daily prompts with share-of-search tracking across AI search.
Updated May 12, 2026
OpenAI B2B Signals: Frontier Firms Use 3.5x More AI per Worker
OpenAI's B2B Signals report reveals frontier firms use 3.5x more AI per worker than peers, with 16x more agentic workflows. What the data means for CI teams.
Updated May 12, 2026
ZoomInfo Layoffs 2026: 600 Jobs Cut, Israel R&D Closes
ZoomInfo cut about 600 jobs on May 5, 2026, roughly 20% of its staff. About a quarter of those roles move to other locations, so the net cut is about 450. ZoomInfo closes its Israel R&D center by the end of 2026. The same day it cut its full-year revenue guidance by $62 million, and the stock fell about 29% after hours.
Updated May 12, 2026
Gartner CSO Conference 2026: Reimagining Sales Productivity with AI
Gartner CSO & Sales Leader Conference 2026 opens with AI sales productivity keynote. 60+ sessions on agentic AI, enablement, and deal execution.
Updated May 07, 2026
How AI Is Killing Information Asymmetry in B2B Procurement
PYMNTS reports AI has eliminated information asymmetry in B2B procurement. 75% of companies now consider AI in procurement as buying decisions happen pre-call.
Updated May 07, 2026
AlphaSense Tops $500M ARR, Appoints Deal-Maker CFO Signaling IPO
AlphaSense crossed $500M ARR and hired ex-hedge-fund CFO Samantha Greenberg. What the moves signal about an IPO and the CI/MI market's trajectory.
Updated April 30, 2026
Gartner Publishes Inaugural Magic Quadrant for Competitive & Market Intelligence
Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for Competitive & Market Intelligence legitimizes CI as an enterprise category. Key placements and what they mean.
Updated April 30, 2026
SAP Embeds CI Deep Research and Tender Analysis Agent in Sales Cloud
SAP's Q1 2026 release adds Deep Research and a Tender Analysis Agent to Sales Cloud, embedding competitive intelligence directly into CRM workflows.
Updated April 30, 2026
Forrester MCI Landscape Q1 2026 Names Agentic Activation the Next Frontier
Forrester's Q1 2026 MCI Platforms Landscape report identifies agentic activation as the defining capability for next-generation CI platforms.
Updated April 28, 2026
IDC Directions 2026: AI Agents Are Reshaping the B2B Buyer Lifecycle
IDC's Directions 2026 keynote introduces the agentic buyer lifecycle — where AI agents reshape B2B discovery, evaluation, and vendor selection.
Updated April 28, 2026
Zynt Raises $500K Pre-Seed for AI-Powered Signal-Based B2B Sales Intelligence
Warsaw-based Zynt closes a $500K pre-seed to build an AI-driven B2B sales intelligence platform focused on buying signal timing and intent detection.
Updated April 24, 2026
Outreach Joins Salesforce AgentExchange, Unifying Revenue AI
Outreach launches on Salesforce AgentExchange with MCP-powered revenue orchestration, signaling a shift to interconnected AI agents for sales teams.
Updated April 23, 2026
Xactly and ServiceNow Launch Agent-to-Agent AI for Revenue Ops
Xactly and ServiceNow ship the first agent-to-agent AI integration for revenue operations, using MCP to automate compensation disputes end-to-end.
Updated April 23, 2026
Adobe's $1.9B Semrush Acquisition Nears Close — What It Means for CI
Adobe's $1.9B Semrush acquisition clears key regulatory hurdles. Here's what the deal means for competitive intelligence teams using Kompyte and Semrush.
Updated April 22, 2026
Does Clari Have an MCP Server? Yes, Since April 2026
Yes. Clari + Salesloft launched an MCP server on April 14, 2026. It lets Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Salesforce Agentforce read live revenue data: pipeline, deal activity, call transcripts, engagement and product usage. In supported tools, an agent can also act, for example create a Salesloft Cadence from a Clari Forecast view.
Updated April 22, 2026
Klue and Crayon MCP Servers: What Each One Does
Klue and Crayon both launched MCP servers in March 2026. An MCP server lets AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot read content from the platform. Crayon's server is read-only: it sends battlecards and competitor profiles out to AI tools. Klue's server reads and writes, so an AI agent can also log new findings back into Klue.
Updated April 22, 2026
Mindtickle ElevateOS: Agentic OS for Revenue Enablement
Mindtickle launched ElevateOS on April 21, 2026. It joins training, coaching, deal intelligence, content and buyer engagement in one system. A data layer called the Know-Do Graph compares what reps learned with what they do in live deals. AI agents then coach the rep, or act for the rep, inside the tools the rep already uses.
Updated April 22, 2026
PitchBook Plugs Into Perplexity via MCP for AI Market Intelligence
PitchBook's March 2026 MCP integration with Perplexity lets users query firmographic and deal intelligence via conversational AI with cited, verifiable sources.
Updated April 22, 2026
Cognism Rebrands Around Data-as-Infrastructure as B2B Intelligence Evolves
Cognism's April 2026 rebrand signals a strategic pivot from SDR list-building to enterprise data infrastructure. What the shift means for CI teams.
Updated April 21, 2026
Outcraft AI Raises €2M to Build Autonomous Revenue Execution Agents
Vilnius-based Outcraft AI raised €2M pre-seed from Practica Capital to build autonomous agents that execute sales across voice, SMS, email, and WhatsApp.
Updated April 21, 2026
Crayon Launches Competitive Signals: Real-Time Alert Engine for CI Teams
Crayon launches Competitive Signals, a real-time alert engine for tracking competitor moves. Here's what CI teams need to know.
Updated April 20, 2026
Gong Research: 58% of Enterprise AI Projects Stalled by Trust Deficit
Gong and Censuswide find 58% of enterprises have stalled AI projects due to trust deficits in data security, explainability, and model transparency.
Updated April 20, 2026
HG Insights Launches Revenue Growth Intelligence Platform with Agentic AI
HG Insights unveils the RGI Platform unifying technographic, intent, and spend data with three AI copilots and an agentic Agent Builder for GTM teams.
Updated April 20, 2026
Similarweb Launches Retail Intelligence Suite for Competitor Benchmarking
Similarweb's Retail Intelligence Suite unifies Amazon IQ and Cross-Retail IQ across 650+ stores, adding digital shelf analytics and automated repricing.
Updated April 20, 2026
HockeyStack Funding: $50M+ Raised, 300 Customers, Bessemer
HockeyStack has raised more than $50 million in total, from investors that include Bessemer Venture Partners, Y Combinator and Uncorrelated Ventures. It gave the total on April 15, 2026, when it launched Revenue Agents: AI agents that each work one deal or one account. Founded in 2023, it has more than 300 customers, including Microsoft, New Relic and Harvey.
Updated April 19, 2026
Gartner: Sales Orgs Averaged 4 Transformations Last Year — AI Enablement Is Key
Gartner's CSO survey finds sales orgs completed 4 major transformations in 12 months. Cross-functional enablement teams are 2.4x more likely to grow.
Updated April 17, 2026
GetWhys Raises $5.2M to Turn Buyer Research Into GTM-Ready Competitive Intel
GetWhys raises $5.2M to scale its AI platform that converts B2B buyer interviews into competitive messaging, battlecards, and sales content for GTM teams.
Updated April 17, 2026
Gong Launches Mission Andromeda with AI Enablement Suite
Gong expands its Revenue AI OS with Mission Andromeda, introducing Gong Enable for AI roleplay training and Gong Assistant for conversational intelligence.
Updated April 09, 2026
Rocket 1.0 Launches AI Product Strategy Platform With Built-In CI
Rocket 1.0 launches an AI platform bundling product strategy, competitive intelligence, and app building at a fraction of consulting costs.
Updated April 09, 2026
9fin Valuation: $1.3B After $170M Series C (March 2026)
9fin is valued at $1.3 billion. It raised a $170 million Series C on March 31, 2026, led by HarbourVest Partners, and CPP Investments joined the round. Its total funding is more than $250 million. 9fin sells data, analytics and AI workflows for debt markets to more than 300 financial institutions.
Updated April 06, 2026
Granola Raises $125M to Turn Meeting Intelligence into Enterprise AI
Granola closes $125M Series C at $1.5B valuation, launching Spaces and APIs to transform meeting intelligence into an enterprise AI context layer.
Updated April 06, 2026
Crayon's 2026 State of CI: AI Use Up 76%, But Competitive Readiness Lags
Crayon's 2026 State of Competitive Intelligence report finds 76% AI adoption growth, but teams rate their competitive readiness just 3.8 out of 10.
Updated April 03, 2026
2026 State of Sales Enablement: 89% Have a Process, Only 36% Follow It
Supered's 2026 enablement research reveals a 6.3x quota gap between teams that follow their sales process and those that don't. Key findings inside.
Updated April 03, 2026
Valona 2026 Report: 63% of CI Teams Stuck at Intermediate Maturity
Valona's 20th-edition global survey finds 63% of intelligence teams spend 80% of time on data collection. Here's what world-class teams do differently.
Updated April 03, 2026
Clari+Salesloft Sunsets Drift, Partners with 1mind for AI Revenue Orchestration
Clari+Salesloft is sunsetting Drift and partnering with 1mind's AI Superhumans for revenue orchestration. What CI teams need to know.
Updated April 01, 2026
ABM Benchmarks 2026: Win Rates and Pipeline (Demandbase)
Demandbase's State of ABM 2026 report uses data from 1,452 Demandbase customers. Companies that use four ad products win 58.7% of deals, a 71% lift over companies that use none. Teams that track two to three buying groups per product win 48.5% more often. Fully integrated CRM, MAP and predictive stacks convert 22% or more of MQAs to pipeline.
Updated April 01, 2026
SalesHood Research: AI Coaching Drives 38% Skill Improvement Across 34K Sessions
SalesHood's research across 34K+ AI coaching sessions finds continuous coaching systems outperform standalone AI role-play on every key metric.
Updated April 01, 2026
Semrush Rebrands as Brand Visibility Platform for AI Search Era
Semrush's March 2026 rebrand pivots from SEO toolset to Brand Visibility Platform, redefining competitive intelligence in the AI search era.
Updated March 20, 2026
Letter AI Raises $40M Series B for Deal-Level Enablement
Letter AI closes $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, launching Letter Compass to bring deal-specific intelligence to revenue enablement workflows.
Updated March 18, 2026
S&P Global Acquires Drift AI, Enhances Capital IQ Pro Platform
S&P Global acquires Drift AI and integrates ProntoNLP sentiment analysis into Capital IQ Pro, advancing AI-powered market intelligence capabilities.
Updated March 18, 2026