Clay secures new funding round at $3B valuation

Clay, legally known as Clay Technologies, Inc., is a New York-based sales automation startup that focuses on providing AI-powered tools for marketers and sales teams. The company just secured a " Series C" funding round that's estimated at $3 billion valuation. The funding round is led by CapitalG, and follows a $20 million employee tender offer at a $1.5 billion valuation in May 2025. This $1.5 billion employee tender offer is just a month ago, and the company revealed that it plans use that strategy so that most of its employees can sell some of their shares valuing the company at a $1.5 billion valuation. The deal is a secondary deal called a tender offer in the company and the funding deal was led by Sequoia, which bought $20 million shares out of the employees shares. The company's valuation is now doubling and this is not only from the funding rounds. The valuation doubling is also driven by its AI-powered platform that streamlines go-to-market (GTM) strategies for…