Austin Hay

Austin Hay

Applied AI, Growth & Systems at Khosla Ventures
Arlington, Virginia, United States

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Clarify acquires Seam AI to power Clarify Signals, adds five employees including Seam CEO Nicholas Scavone

Seattle AI startup Clarify, which has raised $22.5 million, acquired San Francisco-based Seam AI to integrate its proprietary web monitoring signals into a new product, Clarify Signals, launching later this year; five Seam employees including CEO Nicholas Scavone will join Clarify. Financial terms were not disclosed, though Clarify said it raised additional undisclosed funding as part of the deal.

Autonomous CRM: How Clarify Is Reinventing a $100B Category

Thompson and Austin Hay, co-founders of Clarify, the startup that's pioneering the idea of autonomous CRM. Their vision? A CRM that actually does the work for sellers of driving outreach, managing pipeline, and surfacing insights without constant manual input. Patrick and Austin share: • Their journey from Iteratively, Ramp, and Amplitude to founding Clarify • Why the CRM market is ripe for disruption with AI • How Clarify's unique pricing model flips the script (free CRM, pay only when the AI agent works for you) • The concept of autonomous GTM teams and the rise of the Go-to-Market Engineer •…

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  • Khosla Ventures Applied AI, Growth & Systems 2026–present · current
  • HBE Ventures Martech, Revtech, GTM systems Advisor | Investor and AI Builder 2017–present · current
  • Replit Technical Marketing Advisor 2026 · past

Education

  • University of Virginia Certificate, Financial Planning and Services · 2020–2021
  • The Wharton School Master of Business Administration - MBA
  • Stanford University Master of Science (M.Sc.), Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • University of Southern California Bachelor's of Science, Environmental Engineering

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