LeadGenius

LeadGenius
Industry Sales intelligence, Software as a Service
Founded 2011 (2011)
Headquarters Berkeley, California, United States
Area served
 North America
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
South America
India
Serbia
Philippines
Key people
 Prayag Narula: CEO
Anand Kulkarni: Chief Scientist
Dave Rolnitzky: CPO
Number of employees
 40+
Website www.leadgenius.com

LeadGenius is a privately held software as a service, artificial intelligence, and demand generation startup located in Berkeley, California.[1] The company uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human computation to identify and communicate with targeted sales leads.[2] The company's crawlers comb through websites, business directories, government filings, and credit data to train a machine learning system for business-to-business sales.[3]

LeadGenius is the first crowdsourcing company to set a minimum wage for its workers tied to the cost of living in the country they are working in.[4][5][6]

The company launched in Y Combinator’s Summer 2011 class under the name MobileWorks.[7] It has since raised $8.2M in venture funding from investors such as Sierra Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Alexis Ohanian, Mitch Kapor, Dave McClure, and Sam Altman.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "LeadGenius corporate website". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "For LeadGenius team, artificial intelligence drives better sales leads". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "7 innovative companies using AI to disrupt their industries. website". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Crowdsourcing grows up as online workers unite". New Scientist. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Berkeley startup MobileWorks revolutionizes outsourcing". ABC News. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Putting veterans to work". NBC, Bay Area. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "LeadGenius grabs $6M because hiring an actual sales team is so last season". VentureBeat. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "LeadGenius racks up $6 mln". Reuters. Retrieved 14 January 2015.

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