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Opine
Durham, US · Founded 2023 · 23 employees on LinkedIn · 11 known investors
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Opine builds AI agents that consolidate scattered deal context and product knowledge into real-time deal intelligence for technical sales teams. It targets enterprise presales, post-sales, and customer success teams selling complex solutions, providing deal orchestration, automation, and CRM updates.
Also known as Opine · tryopine.com
Founders & leadership
Opine was founded in 2023 by Akash Ganapathi.
Investors · 11
How we know: 100Km Ventures Llc's portfolio page · Not right? Tell us
How we know: Gray Ventures's portfolio page · research · prnewswire.com · Not right? Tell us
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How we know: Primordial Ventures's portfolio page · Not right? Tell us
How we know: Propel Venture Partners's portfolio page · the VCSheet dataset · open dataset · 5k.vc investor directory · Not right? Tell us
How we know: S3 Ventures's portfolio page · a partner's Signal profile · research · prnewswire.com · open dataset · 5k.vc investor directory · Not right? Tell us
Also in the syndicate · 4
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$4.6M disclosed across 2 of 4 rounds · 2023–2025
▶$2.8MraisedDec 2025 · 8 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Charlie DuongExecutive Officer, Director
- Austin KelleherExecutive Officer, Director
- Akash GanapathiExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $3M
- Amount sold
- $2.8M
- Minimum investment
- $25K
- First sale
- Nov 2025
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2023
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$1.8MraisedDec 2023 · 10 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Charlie DuongExecutive Officer, Director
- Akash GanapathiExecutive Officer, Director
- Austin KelleherExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $2.5M
- Amount sold
- $1.8M
- Minimum investment
- $10K
- Proceeds to insiders
- $325K
- First sale
- Sep 2023
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2023
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Opine develops an AI-based deal orchestration platform for technical sales organizations. Its agents ingest customer context from across revenue-facing systems — email threads, calls, notes and support tickets — and convert it into structured, real-time deal intelligence intended to replace manual CRM updating and ad hoc internal status chasing. The product positions itself as a single system of record for presales execution, spanning sellers, solutions engineers, customer success and revenue leadership, as well as external buyer stakeholders.
Functionality described by the company covers three stages of an enterprise deal. In technical qualification, the platform parses documents and requirements to assess technical fit, then routes the opportunity and assigns resources while flagging gaps. In technical validation, it builds POC and pilot plans from templates, assigns owners, prompts prospect-side task completion, and presents progress and risk dashboards. After signature, it generates kickoff agendas, success-plan tasks and adoption checkpoints for delivery and onboarding, carrying presales-captured customer goals into health scoring.
Underlying capabilities cited include an integration and search layer built on real-time data warehousing, semantic search and retrieval, automated call summarization and deal-risk scoring, retained context history, autonomous agents, and an MCP/platform layer that customers can build on.
Business model
Software sold to enterprise revenue organizations, with a demo-and-trial motion; the company states that a high share of trials convert to paying customers.
Traction
The company cites named users including a Director of Solutions Engineering at Gainsight-referenced deployments and presales leaders at Saviynt and Docker, and publishes claimed outcomes such as a 23% average sales cycle reduction, four hours saved per active opportunity per week, a 26% win-rate increase from evaluation stages, and 95% trial-to-customer conversion.
Latest developments
A customer testimonial on the company's site references new funding raised by Opine and planned expansion of the company's playbook offering.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market
Market position
Operates in the AI sales-execution and revenue-intelligence category, focused on the technical sales and presales segment.
Positions itself as going beyond generic integration by combining presales-specific context with real-time retrieval, and by covering the full technical deal lifecycle from qualification through validation to onboarding rather than a single stage.
Technology
AI agents layered over an integration and search infrastructure that uses real-time data warehousing, semantic search and retrieval, and presales-specific context. The platform ingests customer signals across connected tools, produces structured opportunity records, summarizes calls, scores deal risk, and exposes a platform/MCP interface for building additional applications.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales driven by demo requests and product trials from the company website, supported by customer testimonials from solutions engineering leaders and references to events, careers and published insights content.
Enterprise B2B technology companies with complex, technical sales cycles, specifically presales/solutions engineering, post-sales and customer success teams, and revenue leadership such as CROs and solutions engineering directors.
Compiled by commissioned research from 11 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsOpine announced $5 million raised, including $3 million in new funding led by S3 Ventures of Austin, Texas, with participation from Knoll Ventures, Atlanta Seed Company, Gray Ventures, Propel Ventures, Triangle Tweener Fund and Socket.dev CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh. Capital is allocated to workflow automation, real-time deal intelligence, unified data infrastructure and go-to-market expansion.
$5M source ↗
Opine announced the appointment of Vince Beese as its first Chief Revenue Officer to lead enterprise growth.
Ex-JupiterOne co-founders Akash Ganapathi, Austin Kelleher and Charlie Duong publicly launched Durham-based Opine after roughly four months in stealth, having raised over $2 million in pre-seed funding; GrepBeat sister company Primordial participated in the round.
$2M source ↗
Opine began private beta testing of its proof-of-concept automation product for enterprise software vendors, with potential users able to join a waitlist on the company's site.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 11
primary sources listed
- Opine Future of Worktryopine.com · web
- Opine Raises $5M to Build Unified AI Workspace For Complex B2B Salesprnewswire.com · web
11 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Opine do?
- Opine builds AI agents that unify deal context for enterprise technical sales, presales and post-sales teams.
- Who founded Opine?
- Opine was founded by Akash Ganapathi in 2023.
- Who are Opine's investors?
- Opine's investors include 100Km Ventures Llc, Gray Ventures, Knoll Ventures, Primordial Ventures, Propel Venture Partners, S3 Ventures, Primordial.
- How much funding has Opine raised?
- Opine has disclosed $4.6M raised across 2 of its 4 known rounds.
- Where is Opine headquartered?
- Opine is headquartered in Durham, US.