Companies

Roger

hireroger.com

Roger provides AI-powered outbound sales automation that finds prospects, personalizes outreach, follows up, and books meetings.

HQAustin, Texas, United States
Employees1-50
2 active roles
Jobs checked 3d ago
Specialization
Not classified
Business
Software Applicationsand 1 more business values
  • Data Provision
Market
Cross Industry
Ecosystem
Agents
Customers
Enterprisesand 1 more customers values
  • Small Businesses
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Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Agents
Business
Software Applications, Data Provision
Specialization
Not classified
Market
Cross Industry
Customers
Enterprises, Small Businesses
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Usage Based
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Not classified
Reported funding amount
Not classified

About

Roger builds an AI SDR and outbound-sales automation platform for sales teams. Its engine finds prospects, writes personalized outreach, follows up continuously, and books meetings, differentiating through end-to-end automation, access to 300M+ profiles, and claimed 90% SDR time savings.

Market

Roger competes in AI SDR, sales-engagement, and outbound-sales-automation software. It positions itself as a fully managed AI sales representative rather than a passive CRM or standalone sequencing tool, combining prospecting, personalized multi-channel outreach, qualification, follow-up, and pipeline management; its main differentiation is end-to-end execution with human campaign oversight and minimal setup or SDR-management overhead.

Target Customers

Roger is aimed at B2B sales teams—especially lean startups and niche-ICP businesses such as fintech, alternative-data, and climate-tech companies—that need to create pipeline without hiring or managing a traditional SDR team. Likely buyers are founders and GTM, revenue, or sales leaders seeking a fully managed outbound motion.

At a Glance

Problem

Roger addresses the labor-intensive and inconsistent work of outbound sales development: finding prospects, building lists, researching decision-makers, writing personalized outreach, and following up. The pain is especially acute for sales teams whose SDRs spend substantial time on repetitive prospecting rather than higher-value selling. The clearest economic claim in the available material is that Roger can save 90% of SDR time.

The central use case is turning an ideal-customer profile into a continuously running outbound pipeline: identify matching companies and decision-makers, contact them with relevant messaging, follow up persistently, and convert interest into booked meetings. This is intended to solve the coverage problem created when human SDRs cannot prospect and follow up continuously.

Product / Service

Roger is positioned as an AI sales development representative and AI-powered outbound-automation product. Its engine handles the workflow from finding prospects and researching companies and decision-makers through writing personalized emails, following up, and booking meetings, while operating around the clock.

The benefit is an always-on prospecting layer for sales teams that reduces manual list building and outreach work while increasing the consistency and persistence of follow-up. The available material indicates a demo-led sales motion, but does not specify pricing, implementation details, or whether the product is sold as a self-serve application or a managed service.

Market

Roger competes in the AI SDR, sales-engagement, and outbound-sales-automation category. Its positioning is differentiated primarily by presenting the prospecting, personalization, follow-up, and meeting-booking workflow as one AI-driven system. The available research does not name specific competitors, so a definitive competitor list cannot be established from the evidence.

Roger is listed by Y Combinator and has an active company website with a demo call to action, which indicates an operating commercial effort. However, the available sources disclose no customer count, revenue, funding, growth, or other traction metrics; they also do not establish whether Roger is pre-revenue. Any assessment beyond that would be speculative.

Founders & Leadership

Rithwik PattikondaFounder
Founder
Ryan HixsonHead of Sales

Funding History

2024-08
Seed$8M
2024-09
Seed (Crunchbase lists this as Pre-Seed)$120K

Techstars

Recent News

2026-07-13funding
Roger: Funding, Team & Investors — Startup Intros profile update

Startup Intros updated its profile of Roger, identifying it as an active AI-powered SDR and CRM startup based in Mountain View. The profile reports that Roger has raised $9.1 million across three funding rounds, with the latest listed round occurring in September 2024.

2026-05-21product_launch
Outbound Sales ROI Calculator | Hire Roger

Roger launched or promoted an outbound-sales ROI calculator that estimates missed pipeline, required lead volume, and the plan size needed to reach demo goals.

2026-01-06other
Using AI for Lead Generation: A Practical Guide

Roger published a guide explaining how AI can automate lead research, enrichment, personalized outreach, and multi-channel sequencing. The article positions Roger as a platform for running much of a company’s outbound sales motion.

2025-08-12other
Top Roger Alternative (2025) - Get Started

LeadLoft published third-party coverage describing Roger, also called HireRoger, as an AI-powered outbound-sales tool that automates prospecting and outreach.

Active Roles

2
Austin, TX, US/Sales/78d ago
Austin, TX, US/Sales/78d ago

Business Model

Roger monetizes its AI outbound-sales software through volume-based pricing that scales with customer usage. The platform is sold to sales teams as an alternative to hiring and operating traditional SDR capacity.

Products

Roger AI outbound sales representative: automated prospecting, lead qualification, personalized outreach, follow-up, and meeting bookingFully managed outbound campaigns with campaign setup, optimization, and human SDR oversightAI-powered CRM and deal-management workflow for interaction tracking, follow-ups, pipeline movement, and sales analytics

Customers

Memeberg Terminal

Tech Stack

AI-driven outbound automation and autonomous sales workflowsGenerative personalization for prospect research and outreachEmail and LinkedIn multi-channel executionCRM and sales-pipeline synchronizationAI-powered engagement analytics and optimizationSpecific model vendor, programming framework, and database stack are not publicly disclosed

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