🚀 Redcar Raises $5.3M from Khosla Ventures and humbition to Make Superhumans in Sales with AI
Salespeople spend less than half of their day actually selling. To free up time for real conversations and closing deals, reps need tools that do the manual heavy lifting – surfacing the right buyers, tailoring the outreach, and teeing up contents that actually convert. That's why Redcar is building the world’s most accurate and flexible sales agents that adapt to companies’ unique workflows.
Today, we’re incredibly excited to announce Redcar’s $5.3 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures and pre-seed led by humbition, along with industry leaders, technologists, and scientists who share our vision for humans and agents conquering sales together. Those include: Elias Torres - Co-Founder and CTO of Drift, CEO of Agency; Rob Goldman - Former VP at Meta and Indiegogo Board Member; Stan Chudnovsky - Former VP of Meta for Messenger; David Patterson - Turing Award Recipient and Co-Inventor of RISC and RAID; Siqi Chen - CEO of Runway; Nancy Xu - CEO of Moonhub; And many others as investors (read about what Darrell, x-Managing Editor at TechCrunch, has to say about us in The Angle!)
Built to help B2B companies crush quota, Redcar’s sales agents serve human sales reps by doing manual labor at scale. Redcar offers unmatched flexibility to mirror your unique sales workflows and plug seamlessly into existing systems. By tackling account research at scale, we aim to make every sales professional superhuman – and we’re just getting started.
“Redcar is trying to solve the core problem their founders faced running previous startups: spending too much time generating leads instead of closing customers,” said Jon Chu, Partner at Khosla Ventures. “Their full stack AI puts an SDR in reach of any company by bringing automation to the front end of the sales motion."
To understand their buyers’ needs and timeline, top-performing sales reps everywhere piece together job posts, website information, social media profiles, job changes, and more. While relatively menial, when applied to hundreds of accounts, sales reps everywhere are spending most of their data doing prep work instead of closing customers.
Redcar’s flexible F1 Agent takes the busy-work out of sales. It analyzes the processes of your best reps and uses AI to mimic them at scale, equipping every rep in your company with superhuman support. Powered by our AgentExpress platform, F1 can look up and summarize public, proprietary, and private data, qualify and prioritize leads, and deliver personalized outbound messages.
The result is that Redcar saves your team countless hours of busywork but consistently outperforms conventional tools. This frees up teammates to focus on building authentic connections that close deals and can’t be automated.
Our own struggles with manual sales are what inspired Redcar. After selling my prior startups to Google and Zynga, I went through Y Combinator with my restaurant SaaS startup Taste. A big part of the YC experience was the rite of passage of brute-forcing sales. We were taught to do account research and personalize hundreds of outbound messages by hand. It never felt like the best use of time, but when we hired someone who claimed they could help, they only got us a single meeting. Luckily, technology advances were finally making a new approach viable.
My co-founders CJ, Ben Wu, and I bonded over a big realization: together, we could make sales professionals superhuman with AI. Ben has worked on automation since college and built an app that scaled to millions of users; CJ fell in love with go-to-market at BCG and launched xxxM+ revenue plan for new market expansion; Jeff built Skyvi the largest AI Assistant on Android before Google acquired it and helped to launch the Google Assistant.
Our long-term vision is to make every professional superhuman. We believe we can extend our learnings from sales to other industries like HR, marketing, customer success, operations, recruiting, and many more!
We’re growing rapidly and seeking passionate individuals who want to shape the next generation of AI-driven work. If you’re excited about transforming the way people do business – from engineering to product, marketing to operations – we’d love to hear from you.
We’re on the cusp of a new industrial revolution, where AI transcends “just another app” and becomes a genuine partner to every professional. This seed round is just the beginning. Let’s go out there and crush our quotas – together.
More details on how we are the easiest way for B2B companies to scale their sales team on VentureBeat.