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Attio

Founded 2019 · 196 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors

Attio provides an AI-powered agent platform that automates prospecting and lead research for sales teams, enriching leads and qualifying them so sales representatives can focus on closing deals.

Also known as Attio

Founders & leadership

Attio was founded in 2019 by Nicolas Sharp and Alexander Christie.

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Nicolas SharpinCo-Founder and CEO
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Alexander ChristieinCo-Founder & CTO

Investors · 5

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Attio develops a customer relationship management platform positioned as an "AI-native" or "agentic" CRM for go-to-market teams. The product combines a customizable data model (custom objects, records, relationship attributes, formula attributes) with email and calendar sync, workflow automations, sequences, reporting and enrichment. AI capabilities include an assistant ("Ask Attio"), AI agents that research and score leads, call intelligence, auto-labeling and auto-summaries, and an MCP server alongside API, webhook and App SDK access.

Marketing material describes agents that prospect and reach out to buyers, enrich and qualify inbound leads before routing them to reps, brief meetings, surface at-risk or stalled deals, monitor account health and renewals, and draft upsell or renewal outreach for human approval. The company frames its architecture around six "AI primitives": native ingestion of real-time GTM data, an intelligent workflow engine, programmable surfaces (APIs, SDKs and, planned, natural language), agent collaboration, fine-grained permissions and identity, and predictive intelligence. Agent collaboration and advanced permissions were described as in active development at the time of the Series B announcement, with the App SDK in beta.

Attio is delivered as a web application with macOS desktop apps (Apple Silicon and Intel), iOS and Android mobile apps, a Google Chrome extension and a Slack agent. Sign-in is via Google account or emailed temporary password, with SSO available on the Enterprise plan.

Founding story

The founders state they created Attio because CRM, one of the largest B2B software categories, had been stuck on architectures designed two decades ago, and they spent three to four years building the underlying data foundation before publicly launching the product.

Business model

Attio sells its CRM as a self-serve and sales-assisted SaaS subscription with per-seat pricing and usage credits, spanning a free tier through an enterprise contract tier.

Subscription pricing per user per month with monthly or annual billing (annual saves 20%): Free at $0 (up to 3 seats), Plus at $44 monthly or $35 annual, Pro at $99 monthly or $79 annual, and a custom-quoted Enterprise plan billed annually. Plans include monthly seat credits (100/500/1,000/2,500 per user) and workspace credits (250/1,500/10,000/custom), with additional workspace credit packs sold separately, e.g. +5,000/month at $85 monthly or $70 annual, up to +50,000/month at $595 monthly or $475 annual. Higher tiers add objects, record limits, reporting, security controls (SSO, SCIM), support levels and a migration service.

Traction

At the time of the Series B announcement, Attio reported 5,000 paying customers, including Lovable, Granola, Modal, Replicate and Public, with Legora also cited as a customer, and said it was on track for 4x ARR growth that year. Cumulative funding raised was stated at $116 million.

Latest developments

The company has repositioned its homepage around "agentic revenue," marketing AI agents that prospect, enrich and score leads, monitor deal risk and account health, and draft renewal and upsell outreach. Recent product surface additions listed in pricing and downloads include AI agents, Ask Attio, Call Intelligence, an MCP server, an App SDK and a Slack agent. Following the $52 million Series B, priorities stated are scaling engineering and R&D and expanding go-to-market globally.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies

Market position

Attio positions itself against legacy CRM incumbents it describes as built two decades ago on inflexible data models, arguing that bolting LLMs onto legacy infrastructure is insufficient. It sizes CRM as an $89 billion B2B software category and claims a ground-up, AI-native rebuild of it.

Emphasis on a programmable, flexible data model that teams adapt to their own GTM motions rather than adapting to the tool, combined with built-in AI agents that operate alongside humans, extensibility via API/SDK/MCP, and a stated roadmap toward building automations and interfaces through natural language.

Technology

An AI-native data model described as supporting custom objects and rich structured metadata, handling millions of records at sub-50ms latency, built over roughly three to four years before launch. The platform layers on native data ingestion of structured and unstructured sources (calls, meetings, emails, documents, web data), a workflow automation engine, AI agents for research/enrichment/scoring, natural-language querying that executes SQL over workspace data, and programmable surfaces including a public API, webhooks, an App SDK (beta) and an MCP server.

Go-to-market

Combined product-led and sales-led motion: a free tier with no credit card required and self-serve checkout for Plus and Pro, alongside "Talk to sales" and demo requests for Enterprise. Distribution also includes desktop, mobile, Chrome extension and Slack apps, plus content marketing (blog, GTM guest content), a help center with academy courses and developer documentation, and workshops.

Go-to-market, sales, RevOps and customer success teams, ranging from individuals and small teams on the free and Plus tiers to organizations needing advanced security and admin controls on Enterprise. The company describes its users as "GTM builders" — GTM engineers, RevOps leaders and technical founders — and cites startups and high-growth technology companies as customers.

Geography

The company describes expanding globally and scaling its engineering team; product reporting examples reference US and EMEA books of business. No specific office locations are stated in the sources.

History

Attio spent several years building its data platform before a public launch described as occurring the year prior to its $33 million round announcement. Following launch it grew a base of startup customers, raised $33 million led by existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Balderton Capital and Point Nine with new investor 01 Advisors, and subsequently raised a $52 million Series B led by GV, bringing total funding to $116 million and adding GV's Michael McBride, former CRO of GitLab, to the board.

Risks & controversies

No controversies or disputes are described in the available sources.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
ARR growth (on track)Jan 2025On track to 4x ARR growth this year
HeadcountAug 2026196
Paying customersJan 20255,000 customers
Plus plan price (annual billing)Jan 2025$35
Pro plan price (annual billing)Jan 2025$79
Total funding raised to dateJan 2025$116M

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Founder mafia

4 people who came through Attio went on to found or lead other companies.

Competitors · 5

by search overlap
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Pipedrive134 shared keywordsPipedrive is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses to manage sales pipelines, track leads, and automate sales processes. The platform provides visual sales funnel management, email marketing integration, customer tracking, and reporting tools to help sales teams close more deals efficiently.
Zendesk103 shared keywordsThis is Zendesk's internal belonging/diversity and inclusion program page, not a company profile page for an external company. It describes Zendesk's internal culture initiatives and leadership development programs.
Close84 shared keywordsClose is a CRM platform that provides sales software for businesses, emphasizing communication features and automated data entry to improve sales representative productivity.
Nutshell78 shared keywordsNutshell provides an AI-powered sales CRM and marketing automation platform for sales teams, with features such as automated note-taking, prospect research, and integrations. It targets small and mid-sized businesses looking to manage contacts, track deals, and close more sales.

Companies competing with Attio for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Acquisitions · 1

Early investors' stakes continue via these deals
Inconvo

Inconvo was a natural language interface for querying data. The company has merged with Attio, an agentic CRM platform.

Timeline · 4

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2025
Attio raises $52M Series B led by GV

Attio announced a $52 million Series B led by GV (Google Ventures) with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Balderton Capital, Point Nine and 01A, bringing total funding to $116 million.

$52M source ↗

Jan 2025
Michael McBride of GV joins Attio's board

As part of the Series B, Michael McBride from GV, former CRO of GitLab, joined Attio's board of directors.

source ↗

Jan 2025
App SDK released in beta

Attio's App SDK, which lets builders deploy custom apps directly inside Attio without third-party infrastructure, entered beta.

source ↗

Jan 2024
Attio raises $33 million

Attio announced a $33 million round led by existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Balderton Capital and Point Nine, with new investor 01 Advisors. Dick Costolo of 01 Advisors participated.

$33M source ↗

Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Attio do?
Attio is an AI-native CRM platform whose agents build pipeline, advance deals and manage accounts for revenue teams.
Who founded Attio?
Attio was founded by Nicolas Sharp, Alexander Christie in 2019.
Who are Attio's investors?
Attio's investors include 01 Advisors, Balderton Capital, GV (Google Ventures), Point Nine, Redpoint Ventures.