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Orum

San Francisco, US · Founded 2018 · Delaware corporation · 179 employees on LinkedIn · 25 known investors

Orum offers an AI-powered dialing and coaching platform that helps sales development teams run cold calling as a system, maximizing live conversations by detecting who answered first, optimizing connect rates, and providing coaching insights. It serves SDR and outbound sales teams and integrates with CRMs and sales engagement platforms like Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, and Salesloft.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

Also known as Dialbot · Orum Inc. · orumhq

Founders & leadership

Orum was founded in 2018 by Karthik Viswanathan and Jason Dorfman.

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Karthik ViswanathanCo-founder
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Jason DorfmanCo-founder

Board

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Ayush SoodBoard director

Investors · 25

Also in the syndicate · 16

Aaron HarrisAcrewAmerican Express VenturesCrecDemetrios Christofidis JRJana MesserschmidtKristian SegerstraleLAUNCHNick JonasRashaun WilliamsSameer GandhileadSQN Venture PartnersSteve ChenSundeep MadraTravis VanderzandenVikas Sabnani

Reported raises · per SEC filings

Form D private placements

$26M disclosed across 2 of 6 rounds · 2019–2025

$22MraisedDec 2022 · 4 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Jason DorfmanExecutive Officer, Director
  • David SacksDirector
  • Sri PangulurDirector
  • Karthik S. ViswanathanExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$22M
Amount sold
$22M
First sale
Aug 2022
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2018
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$4MraisedJan 2020 · 3 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Ayush SoodDirector
  • Karthik ViswanathanExecutive Officer, Director
  • Jason DorfmanExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$4M
Amount sold
$4M
First sale
Dec 2019
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2018
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Orum operates a calling performance platform for business-to-business sales development teams. Its core product is an AI dialer that places calls to multiple numbers in parallel, detects whether a human or voicemail answered, filters bad numbers, drops voicemails and routes the representative to the first live prospect. When more than one prospect answers, the system identifies who picked up first down to the millisecond, connects the rep to that person and cancels the other call, placing the dropped number into a separate bucket for follow-up. Additional connect-rate features include number rotation, country matching and caller-reputation monitoring intended to reduce spam labelling, plus continuous optimisation of dialing patterns [0][4].

Around the dialer, Orum sells an AI coaching suite and collaboration layer. The coaching suite includes AI scorecards, coaching portals and AI roleplay, which convert large volumes of recorded calls into prioritised insights for managers and improvement guidance for reps. A virtual "salesfloor" provides leaderboards, live listening and shared dialing sessions aimed at distributed teams. Real-time dashboards, call recording and transcription, and intelligent call routing support conversation intelligence and analytics [0][4].

The company positions the product as complementary to, rather than a replacement for, CRMs and sales engagement platforms: it integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Gong Engage and Apollo, plus webhooks for custom workflows, and states that call outcomes and recordings flow back into those systems. Orum advertises SOC 2 Type II, ISO certification and GDPR readiness, and supports international calling in more than 160 countries and regions depending on plan [0][4].

Founding story

According to one aggregator, Jason Dorfman and Karthik Viswanathan founded the company in 2018 after Dorfman, who was Rubrik's first sales hire and built its sales team, encountered inefficiencies in outbound calling; Viswanathan contributed AI expertise. The same source states the company was formerly named Dialbot [4].

Business model

Business-to-business SaaS sold to sales organisations. Orum offers tiered core plans (named Launch and Ascend) matched to team stage and calling volume, with add-ons for capabilities such as webhooks and AI coaching. Pricing is per user and billed annually, with lighter-use options for part-time roles and enterprise arrangements; one third-party summary cites a Launch plan at $250 per month with unlimited calls and no seat minimum [0][4].

Recurring per-seat subscription licences billed annually, plus paid add-on modules [0].

Traction

The website claims usage by thousands of SDR teams and millions of calls per day, and publishes customer-reported outcomes such as 2x more meetings with fewer reps (OnBoard), 20% more meetings booked (Abnormal Security) and a 50% decrease in ramp time (Punch!) [0]. A third-party aggregator states over 1,200 revenue teams use the platform, over one billion calls powered since inception, connect-rate increases up to 400%, daily conversations rising from 10-15 to 30-50 or more, and revenue of $29.4M; these aggregator figures are unverified and inconsistent with other listings [4].

Latest developments

In May 2025 Orum launched a context-aware AI enablement and coaching suite, extending the product beyond dialing into rep coaching and performance management, according to an aggregator profile [4]. The current website markets three pillars — AI dialer, AI coaching suite and salesfloor — and highlights enterprise compliance credentials (SOC 2 Type II, ISO certification, GDPR readiness) [0].

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

Market position

Orum competes in the AI sales-acceleration and outbound calling tooling category, differentiating from dialers embedded in CRMs and sales engagement platforms by focusing specifically on maximising live conversations and layering coaching on top. Directory listings classify it as a small horizontal B2B SaaS company in the sales and marketing software category [0][2][4].

Stated differentiators are purpose-built parallel dialing that coexists with existing CRM/SEP stacks rather than replacing them, first-answer detection and cancelled-call recovery, spam mitigation through number rotation and reputation monitoring, AI models trained on a large proprietary corpus of sales calls, an integrated coaching suite that scales manager review across all calls, and a virtual salesfloor for remote teams [0][4].

Technology

AI applied to outbound telephony: parallel dialing across multiple lines, human-versus-voicemail answer detection, millisecond-level determination of which prospect answered first, automated voicemail drops, bad-number filtering, call routing, note generation, transcription and dialing-pattern optimisation. The company states its AI models are trained on over one billion real sales calls. Coaching features use AI scorecards and roleplay agents built on recorded call data [0][4].

Go-to-market

Direct sales motion driven by demo requests from the website, supported by a dedicated implementation and onboarding team, customer success managers, live chat and a help center; the company reports most teams are live within days. Marketing assets include customer stories, a blog, podcasts, reports and guides (including a State of Sales Development report), events and webinars, and a partner directory [0][4].

Sales development representative teams and outbound revenue organisations, from startups to enterprises, including distributed and remote sales floors. Named customers referenced on the company site include OnBoard, Abnormal Security and Punch! [0]. One aggregator states more than 1,200 revenue teams use the platform [4].

Geography

United States headquarters; internal records list San Francisco, one directory lists a remote office in Austin, Texas, and another lists the company as remote in the USA [2][4]. The product supports international calling across more than 160 countries and regions depending on plan, and is built for distributed teams [0].

History

Founded in 2018 and originally operating as Dialbot, the company raised a venture round in 2020 and Series A financing in 2021, followed by a Series B in November 2022 according to aggregator data [4]. Reported milestones include ISO 27001 certification in 2023, publication of a State of Sales Development report in 2023, and a 2025 expansion from dialing into a context-aware AI coaching and enablement suite [4].

Risks & controversies

Public data on Orum is inconsistent across aggregators: reported total funding ranges from about $29M [2] to $73.2M [4], employee counts range from 11-50 [2] to a clearly erroneous "10000+" [4], and revenue and usage figures appear only in unverified aggregator summaries. One source notes a learning curve in the product interface [4]. The company name is shared with at least two unrelated businesses — Orum Therapeutics, a Korean-American biotech, and Orum.io, a payments infrastructure company acquired by Stripe — creating a high risk of data conflation [3][5][7].

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

Key figures

latest reported
Calls powered since inceptionJan 20251,000,000,000 calls
Calls used to train Orum AIJan 20251,000,000,000 sales calls
Countries and regions supported for international callingJan 2025160
Customer outcome - Abnormal SecurityJan 202520% more meetings booked
Customer outcome - OnBoardJan 20252x more meetings with fewer reps
Customer outcome - Punch!Jan 202550% decrease in ramp time
Daily conversations per rep (reported)Jan 2025From 10-15 to 30-50+ conversations per day
EmployeesJan 202511-50 employees
Launch plan price (aggregator-reported)Jan 2025$250
Maximum parallel dial linesJan 20257 lines
Number of funding roundsNov 2022$4
Reported connect rate increaseJan 2025Up to 400% increase in connect rates
Revenue (aggregator-reported, unverified)Jan 2025$29.4M
Revenue teams using the platformJan 20251,200 teams
Security certificationsJan 2025SOC 2 Type II, ISO certified, GDPR ready
Total funding raised (aggregator-reported)Nov 2022$73.2M

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

Timeline · 3

launches, deals, and filings
May 2025
Context-aware AI enablement and coaching suite launched

Orum released an AI enablement suite with context-aware agents for real-time rep coaching and team-wide enablement, extending the platform beyond dialing.

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Jan 2023
State of Sales Development report published

Orum released its State of Sales Development report.

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Jan 2023
ISO 27001 certification achieved

Aggregator profile reports Orum obtained ISO 27001 certification for data security in 2023; the company site lists ISO certification, SOC 2 Type II and GDPR readiness.

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

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
OrumDelaware

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed
  • Orumorumhq.com · web

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

Frequently asked questions

What does Orum do?
Orum is an AI-powered parallel dialing and sales coaching platform used by SDR teams to increase live conversations.
Who founded Orum?
Orum was founded by Karthik Viswanathan, Jason Dorfman in 2018.
Who are Orum's investors?
Orum's investors include Unusual Ventures, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, BoxGroup, Canapi Ventures, Homebrew, Inspired Capital, Primary and 1 more.
How much funding has Orum raised?
Orum has disclosed $26M raised across 2 of its 6 known rounds.
Where is Orum headquartered?
Orum is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
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