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Coldreach

YC W23

San Francisco, US · Founded 2023 · 3 employees · 1 known investors

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Coldreach is an AI sales development representative that identifies qualified leads using intent signals and automates personalized outreach via email and LinkedIn for B2B sales teams. The platform monitors custom buying signals across multiple data sources to find high-intent prospects and facilitates targeted outbound campaigns at scale.

Also known as EasyJobs · EasyJobs Inc.

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W23)

Coldreach was founded in 2023 by Xiaohan Shen and Hankel Bao.

XSXiaohan Shen
Xiaohan SheninCo-Founder and CEOXiaohan Shen founded Coldreach and previously founded EasyJobs; he has experience building outbound sales operations and advising sales teams on lead generation strategies.
HBHankel Bao
Hankel BaoinCo-Founder & CTOHankel Bao is CTO of Coldreach and formerly CTO of EasyJobs, with background in natural language processing and systems abstraction.

Investors · 1

The YC application· Winter 2023 batch

Alumni Q&A

How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
The founders met on their first day of college and had previously worked together on several projects, including an LLM-based startup called EasyJobs that reached 20K MAU in about a year and a half, giving them experience in NLP and outbound sales. Having written over 1,000 personalized sales emails themselves, they found personalization effective for conversion but too time-consuming to scale, which led them to build Coldreach.

Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.

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Competitors · 8

by search overlap
Salesforge143 shared keywordsSalesForge provides tools and training for agencies and service providers to execute cold email campaigns effectively. The company targets agency professionals and consultants seeking to build revenue through outbound email sales strategies.
Artisan100 shared keywordsArtisan builds an AI-powered platform that consolidates fragmented work software tools and automates repetitive workflows through AI collaborators. The platform initially focuses on outbound sales but aims to expand across industries including customer success, recruiting, and enterprise operations.
Cognism94 shared keywordsCognism is a B2B sales intelligence platform that provides accurate, compliance-focused contact and company data for revenue and go-to-market teams. It focuses on serving sales teams selling into and across EMEA and European markets, with additional presence in the US.
AiSDR86 shared keywordsAiSDR is an AI sales agent that automates outbound sales emails and books meetings for B2B companies. The platform uses signal-based prospecting across multiple channels including email, LinkedIn, and SMS to help sales teams generate qualified meetings and improve conversion rates.
Warmly,65 shared keywordsWarmly is an AI-powered sales prospecting and outreach platform that helps companies identify and engage with qualified leads, reducing the need for traditional Sales Development Representative services.
Factors54 shared keywordsFactors.ai is an account-based marketing (ABM) platform that consolidates intent and engagement data and uses AI agents to identify buying accounts, score them by real engagement signals, launch ad campaigns, and attribute revenue. It serves B2B sales and marketing teams, integrating with CRMs and ad channels like LinkedIn and Meta.
Kaspr51 shared keywordsKaspr is a prospecting and sales intelligence tool designed for small and medium-sized businesses and individual contributors to identify and engage potential leads. The platform is part of the Cognism Group and provides global sales data to support predictable lead generation.
Landbase49 shared keywordsLandbase provides an AI-agent platform for B2B revenue teams that finds, qualifies, scores, and enriches best-fit target accounts using company data, web data, and buying signals. It automates account targeting, qualification, and contact enrichment as an alternative to sales prospecting tools like Apollo and Clay.

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

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Frequently asked questions

What does Coldreach do?
Coldreach is an AI sales development representative that identifies qualified leads using intent signals and automates personalized outreach via email and LinkedIn for B2B sales teams. The platform monitors custom buying signals across multiple data sources to find high-intent prospects and facilitates targeted outbound campaigns at scale.
Who founded Coldreach?
Coldreach was founded by Xiaohan Shen, Hankel Bao in 2023.
Who are Coldreach's investors?
Coldreach's investors include Y Combinator.
Where is Coldreach headquartered?
Coldreach is headquartered in San Francisco, US.