Artisan

Excited to announce our $11.5M Seed at Artisan! At Artisan, we're solving 2 major problems: - There are too many (bad) SaaS products. There's a sea of clunky feature-products that don't talk to each other, cost too much and lead to endless context switching and data entry - Humans do too much work. Every day, millions of people open their computer and spend 8 hours doing manual, highly automatable work We're creating consolidated, easy-to-use software and AI Employees called Artisans to address these issues. Our first Artisan is Ava, the AI BDR. She finds and researches leads using dozens of data sources, send them hyper-personalized messages on LinkedIn and email, manages deliverability and so much more. I spoke to Forbes about the round & what’s in store for Artisan looking forward. Read about it here: https://lnkd.in/eie6Yg5N. Since launching Ava, we've crossed $1 million ARR and onboarded 100s of customers. If you want to learn more about Ava, let's chat: https://lnkd.in/erKwdu4i The round was led by Oliver Jung, with participation from HubSpot Ventures, Masha Bucher from Day One Ventures, Y Combinator, Fellows Fund, BOND, Sequoia Capital Scout, 10x Founders, Aneel Ranadive from Soma Capital, Gopher Asset Management, CoreNest, Mento vc, Anu Hariharan, Paul Daversa, David J. Phillips, Teddy Nwachuku, Lawrence Lin Murata, Nick E., Alexander Galicki, Eugenio Carnemolla, Stevan Nenadov, David Job de Picciotto, Kenny Denton, AIP Seed, and Daniel Paley. This is just the beginning - we have tons of exciting features in our roadmap for outbound sales and some awesome new Artisans in the pipeline We’re looking for talented people to help us build the next paradigm of software 🚀 Get in touch if you’re interested: https://lnkd.in/ePZACACq

Mass emails feel impersonal. We get it. That's why we built the Data Miner. It gathers data from dozens of sources – everything from LinkedIn posts to hiring news – giving you the insights to make every message tailored to the individual. Here's what it offers: ↳ Access to over 300 million B2B contacts ↳ Company growth signals like hiring and fundraising ↳ Real-time insights from social media to press releases ↳ Seamless integrations with your favorite sales tools Ready to see it in action? Book a Demo: https://lnkd.in/ds3kckvC

In 3 years there will be no human BDRs. Ok maybe that's slightly dramatic but there will be significantly less. The role of a BDR has become increasingly automated, but until now, no technology could fully replicate what a human can do. That’s about to change I've chatted with 100s of BDRs who are excited about Artisan. No BDRs actually want to be BDRs - they want to build human relationships in an AE role And companies are ready to spend less on their BDR org. For reference, Ava (our AI BDR) costs 90%+ less than the equivalent human output Traditionally, the BDR role consists of a series of extremely manual tasks: Build a list of contacts from a B2B data provider Verify their contact info Look for personalizations across their LinkedIn, X, news, etc Prospect through channels like email, phone, or social media Follow up Respond to objections Book in meetings Update CRM Automation has been slowly eating away at the BDR’s role for a long time and we're approaching a fully autonomous AI BDR. By 2025, AI BDRs will be list building, prospecting, qualifying over the phone, objection handling, booking meetings, taking notes, and updating CRMs autonomously Ava already automates 80% of a BDRs role, finding leads, collecting data on from dozens of sources to effectively personalize emails and LinkedIn messages at scale, and managing deliverability None of our prospects that receive Ava’s emails even realize she’s AI. Ava ghostwrites on behalf of humans Ava is changing the way sales orgs function. You can learn more at https://lnkd.in/dX2Jscxj

Cold email gets a bad rap. Justifiably. But there is an alternative to what so often passes for outbound email. Our latest article explores nine powerful copywriting techniques that will transform your emails from generic spam into authentic opportunities to build relationships with potential customers. In a nutshell, you want to focus on: - Clear, concise language - Personalized reasons for reaching out - Incorporating a human touch Read the full article now: https://buff.ly/3Zg4Q1i

90% of business leaders will use GenAI tools “often” over the next two years. That’s just one stat in McKinsey’s recent report on the rise of GenAI in marketing and sales. The question isn’t if you should be using AI. It’s how. And we firmly believe your focus should be on building a tech stack that enables you to maximize its full potential. In our latest article, you’ll learn: - The six most powerful benefits of GenAI for sales professionals. - Current use cases of GenAI in outbound sales. - A step-by-step checklist for integrating AI into your sales workflow. Read the full article now: https://buff.ly/3XaDPcU

There are a lot of sales tools floating around right now. I made it easy for you - these are best AI sales tools across 15 different categories: →Data Enrichment ↳Clay ↳FullEnrich ↳Ocean.io ↳LeadMagic  ↳BetterContact →AI Agents ↳Artisan ↳Claygent ↳Relevance AI →LinkedIn Outreach ↳HeyReach ↳Expandi.io →Multi-Channel ↳lemlist ↳La Growth Machine →Sales Coach/Assistant ↳Attention ↳Artisan ↳Cockpit →Visitor Identification ↳RB2B  ↳Unify ↳Warmly, →Email Outreach ↳Instantly.ai ↳Smartlead ↳Lemlist →Email Deliverability/Verification ↳LeadMagic ↳ZeroBounce ↳DeBounce ↳Scrubby | Complete email validation →Data Scraping ↳Clay ↳PhantomBuster ↳Instant Data Scraper →Video Prospecting ↳Sendspark →Copywriting ↳Twain ↳Copy.ai →Intent Signals ↳Trigify.io ↳Unify ↳Clay →Voice Notes ↳Lemlist ↳La Growth Machine ↳ElevenLabs →CRM ↳Breakcold ↳folk ↳HubSpot ↳Salesforce →Advertising ↳Hyros ↳AdCreative.ai ↳Hoppy Copy ___ You can't go wrong with any of these tools. Anything you would add/change? Have a great weekend everybody ✌

We purposely don't post specific job roles on our website. We need the most talented people in the world to execute on our mission of becoming the software and digital labor ecosystem, and aren't going to pigeonhole ourselves by only letting people apply to specific roles. We're looking for people who: - Are excited to work 60+ hours per week - Have exceptional writing skills - Are extremely smart - Have a 'figure-it-out' mindset - Set and achieve highly ambitious goals - Are looking for their life's work We've already created the most advanced AI BDR on the market and have an insanely ambitious product and growth roadmap. If you're ready to build the future with us, fill out our open application at

🚀 Artisan is growing 50% MoM 🚀 It's a metric that our team has worked incredibly hard to achieve, including our CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack who’s been working from his hospital bed for the past 3 days! We’ve been heads down closing deals, onboarding 10s of customers every week, expanding our GTM strategy, and building out an ambitious product pipeline. We're relentlessly pursuing our mission of becoming the gold standard in software and digital labor. Our growth also means we’re hiring for every pillar of the company. We’re looking for: 💰 AEs who can close deals fast 😊 Customer Success Managers who can manage 100+ accounts 📈 GTM generalists who can execute across the growth stack 🖋 Copywriters who can write high-quality, genuinely interesting SEO articles 🤳 A social media wiz who can manage our LinkedIn & Twitter accounts 🤖 Extremely talented engineers (Full Stack and AI) In a market where new AI GTM solutions arrive every day, this is the time for us to prove why we’re leading the pack. And it’ll take an entire village to do it. If you’re interested in joining this rocketship, the best way to get our attention is by applying through the form on our website: https://lnkd.in/eYHd6kYT Since Jaspar's in a cast for 3 months, he’ll have plenty of time to look through job apps 😉

Last year, before we had any funding (beyond me sinking my entire life savings into the company), when I had no network, and we didn’t even have a working product, I went to TechCrunch Disrupt to meet investors through their networking app and with the dream of raising a pre-seed for Artisan. Safe to say I didn’t secure funding at that time… A lot has changed since then and this year, we’ll be a primary sponsor of the event 🤠 It’s crazy to think that since then we’ve done Y Combinator, built the most comprehensive outbound product on the market, grown our team to 16 people, scaled towards $1M ARR (growing close to 70% MoM), and raised over $8M for amazing investors. Our sponsorship of Disrupt is definitely a full circle moment for me - feeling very grateful for how life has progressed. Anyway, come and see us if you’ll be there! We’ll be in the spot that Google had last year in the second floor entrance hall, next to Mercury. We have a huge product launch that we’ll be announcing at Disrupt, so stay tuned for that 🦄 If you won’t be there, hire our AI BDR Ava anyway 😉 https://lnkd.in/egydpQPd

Excited to announce our $7.3M seed at Artisan! We’re working relentlessly to bring software into the AI age with AI Employees, called Artisans, and consolidated software for them and human teams to work together within. Ava, our AI BDR automates 80% of a human BDR’s workflows - from finding and researching leads, to writing emails and managing deliverability. She works alongside them in our Artisan Sales platform, which contains every tool you need to do outbound - B2B data, email warmup, web scraping, sequences, placement tests, mailbox health monitoring, advanced analytics, and so much more. Interested? Let’s chat: https://lnkd.in/egydpQPd We’re ramping up for a very busy summer and are hiring for full-stack engineering roles - reach out if you think you’d be a good fit 🤠 The round was led by Oliver Jung, with participation from Y Combinator, Fellows Fund, BOND, Sequoia Capital Scout, Soma Capital, Gopher Asset, CoreNest, Mento vc, Anu Hariharan, Paul Daversa, David J. Phillips, Teddy Nwachuku, Lawrence Lin Murata, Nick E. and others. Read more at https://lnkd.in/eCHbbEcT.