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Leadbay

leadbay.ai

Leadbay is an AI-native B2B prospecting platform that discovers and qualifies hard-to-find SMB leads.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
4 active roles
Jobs checked 4d ago
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Business
Software Applicationsand 1 more business values
  • Data Provision
Market
Cross Industry
Ecosystem
Applications
Customers
Enterprises
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Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications, Data Provision
Specialization
Not classified
Market
Cross Industry
Customers
Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Subscription
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Latest equity round
Seed
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About

Leadbay builds an AI-native B2B prospecting and lead-qualification platform for sales teams targeting small and medium-sized businesses, especially in data-scarce industries such as construction, hospitality, manufacturing, and B2B services. Its differentiator is an inference model that discovers and qualifies prospects using sparse, fragmented signals and learns from customers’ won and lost deals.

Market

Leadbay competes in the B2B sales-intelligence, lead-generation, and predictive-prospecting market. It positions itself against broad data platforms such as LinkedIn, Clay, and ZoomInfo by focusing on data-scarce SMB markets, using proprietary inference, crawling, and extrapolation to identify companies and buying signals that conventional databases miss.

Target Customers

Leadbay targets sales teams and B2B companies that sell to small and midsized businesses, including organizations in construction, manufacturing, hospitality, retail, healthcare, and B2B services. Its best fit is companies whose target markets have fragmented, low-signal online data and whose sales teams need to discover and qualify previously hidden prospects.

At a Glance

Problem

Leadbay addresses the difficulty of deciding which information-poor B2B leads are most likely to close. This is especially painful for field-sales teams selling physical goods or services to brick-and-mortar businesses, where reps must prioritize prospects across large territories and often lack the data needed for reliable qualification or closing predictions. The opportunity is substantial: about 80% of B2B sales teams conduct some form of field sales, while large field-sales organizations with 50 or more reps represent roughly 30% of the B2B sales workforce and economy.

The killer use case is helping wholesalers and insurers focus their reps on the highest-quality prospects—for example, suppliers selling to construction, hotel, or restaurant businesses—rather than spending time on low-probability accounts. In economic terms, better prioritization can expand the reachable market and increase the number of leads that sales teams consider genuinely qualified.

Product / Service

Leadbay is a web and mobile application built around three connected workflows: Monitor scores and tracks a sales pipeline, Discover generates leads, and additional capabilities help teams explore new market segments and refine their Ideal Customer Profile. Its domain-specific models are designed to bring data and prediction to the “last mile,” including closing predictions in settings where lead data is sparse.

The benefit is a more focused field-sales motion: reps can identify and work the most promising leads instead of relying primarily on manual research or broad prospecting. Leadbay says its customers have expanded their addressable market threefold and increased the leads they define as qualified tenfold, while positioning the product as a way to qualify leads for agentic workflows.

Market

Leadbay competes in AI-assisted B2B sales intelligence, lead generation, lead qualification, and pipeline prioritization, with an initial focus on field sales for physical-goods and brick-and-mortar markets. The company’s positioning emphasizes domain-specific prediction for information-poor accounts rather than generic data enrichment alone. Clay and traditional go-to-market agencies appear to be important alternative solutions or comparison points; customers have characterized ten minutes on Leadbay as outperforming six months with Clay and a GTM agency.

The available evidence indicates that Leadbay is already commercial rather than clearly pre-revenue. It reports teams at L’Oréal, Saint-Gobain, Gerflor USA, Corgi, and Nespresso B2B as customers or users achieving the stated market-expansion and lead-qualification gains. No revenue, customer-count, or funding figures are provided, so traction is best described as named enterprise adoption and reported performance outcomes rather than quantified financial scale.

Founders & Leadership

Ludovic GrangerFounder
CEO & Co-founder
Milan StankovicFounder
CTO & Co-founder

Funding History

2025-09
Seed$500K

Y Combinator

2026-05
Seed$4.3M

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-05-20funding
Leadbay raises $4.3 million to qualify digitally scarce SMB leads

Pulse2 reported that Leadbay announced a $4.3 million seed round to qualify SMB prospects with limited digital signals.

2026-05-19partnership
Leadbay announces research partnership with Sorbonne University

As part of its May 2026 financing announcement, Leadbay announced a research partnership with Sorbonne University to strengthen the science behind its AI inference model.

2025-10-16product_launch
Company Launches Leadbay AI: 3x more SMBs than Linkedin

Y Combinator’s company page recorded Leadbay’s launch announcement, positioning the product as a way to reach more SMBs than LinkedIn and qualify prospects missed by conventional workflows.

Active Roles

4
Paris, IDF, FR / Paris, Île-de-France, FR / Remote (US)/Forward-Deployed Engineer/40d ago
San Francisco, CA, US/Forward-Deployed Engineer/79d ago
San Francisco, CA, US/Forward-Deployed Engineer/79d ago
Paris, IDF, FR / Paris, Île-de-France, FR/Forward-Deployed Engineer/79d ago

Business Model

Leadbay uses a freemium and subscription SaaS model: a free tier is supplemented by paid plans priced at $100 or $400 per user per month, plus custom enterprise contracts. Enterprise customers receive tailored deployments integrating Leadbay with CRM, ERP, and data-lake systems.

Products

AI-powered B2B sales intelligence and lead-generation platformHidden SMB lead discoveryPredictive lead scoring and ICP-based prospect qualificationOn-demand prospecting and qualification from website or won/lost-lead data

Customers

L'OréalSaint-GobainGerflor USACorgiNespresso B2B

Tech Stack

Proprietary AI inference modelIntelligent on-demand web crawlingMissing-data extrapolationDigital and self-generated intent signalsAI-based ICP learning and predictive lead scoring

Competitors

LinkedIn
Clay
ZoomInfo