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Champ

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Champ provides AI SDR software that researches prospects, personalizes outreach, and books qualified sales meetings.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 13h ago
Sales TechAI AgentB2B SaaS

About

Champ builds an AI SDR for SaaS, professional-services, and other companies seeking automated outbound sales. Its platform researches prospects deeply, identifies relevant pain points, writes personalized emails, manages follow-up, and operates dedicated email infrastructure to generate qualified meetings.

Market

Champ competes in the AI SDR, B2B sales-development, and outbound-sales-automation market. It positions itself as an end-to-end autonomous SDR that researches prospects, identifies buying signals, creates highly personalized messaging, executes repetitive outreach, and books qualified meetings. Its differentiation is research-led personalization and dedicated outbound infrastructure rather than merely providing a sales database or workflow tool; Apollo, Outreach, and Salesloft are described as workflow/database platforms rather than fully autonomous AI sales representatives.

Target Customers

Champ targets B2B SaaS, professional-services, and similar companies that need more qualified outbound pipeline. Its primary buyers are sales professionals, sales leaders, and GTM operators; the evidence suggests a fit for lean teams seeking to automate repetitive top-of-funnel work, although no formal company-size band is disclosed.

At a Glance

Problem

Champ addresses the labor-intensive top of the B2B sales funnel: identifying prospects, understanding their businesses and decision-makers, writing relevant outreach, following up, and coordinating meetings. The underlying pain is repetitive work that consumes sales professionals’ time, while generic AI-written personalization can undermine trust and reduce response rates. Champ positions the main economic benefit as freeing roughly 40 hours per week from outbound sales work and keeping the funnel continuously supplied with sales-qualified leads.

The killer use case is automated, deeply personalized outbound prospecting for companies that need more pipeline without adding SDR headcount. Rather than sending one-size-fits-all campaigns, the system researches a prospect’s business and pain points, then uses that context to generate targeted email messaging and follow-up.

Product / Service

Champ is an AI SDR delivered as a software service for the top of the sales funnel. Users provide a campaign context and prospect list; the system develops campaign ideas, identifies or researches leads, writes personalized messages, conducts follow-up and nurture, and handles meeting availability and timezone logic. Its earlier product, Mocke, described the workflow as collapsing research and cold-email writing into about 60 seconds, with options ranging from full AI delegation to user-controlled editing.

The product also manages the operational infrastructure behind outbound email, including domains, mailboxes and deliverability. Champ claims that its AI can research hundreds of pages quickly, execute repetitive tasks consistently, and has achieved advertised results of 99.5% delivery, 68% opens and 8% replies. These are company-reported marketing metrics rather than independently verified performance data.

Market

Champ competes in AI sales development, sales engagement and automated outbound prospecting, a segment of the broader sales-force-automation market. Its closest conceptual competitors include autonomous or AI-assisted SDR products such as 11x, Amplemarket, Artisan, AiSDR and Salesforge; broader adjacent platforms include Apollo, which combines B2B sales intelligence, contact data, sequencing and multi-channel outreach automation.

The public record identifies Champ as a San Francisco company founded in 2022 and accepted into Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 batch; its YC profile lists it as active, while public directory data describes a very small team and reports no confirmed revenue, no customer count and $0 in outside funding as of December 2024. The live site and terms indicate an operating subscription service, but the available evidence is not sufficient to establish current revenue or scale, so Champ is best characterized as an early-stage, small-team AI SDR company rather than a demonstrably scaled vendor.

Founders & Leadership

Matt SunFounder
Cofounder & CEO
Daniel WasserlaufFounder
Cofounder & Lead Engineer

Funding History

2026-05
Seed$8.5M

Redpoint Ventures

Recent News

2026-07-29product
Workflows run the work. Cases keep it on the record.

Champ’s product materials describe AI-powered automation for complex enterprise processes, including support tickets, workflows, and operations handled by intelligent AI agents.

2026-05-14
Former Instacart engineers raise $8.5 million for AI startup

Coverage reported that Jagannath Putrevu, Ted Cheng, and Peter Lin founded Champ AI after working at Instacart. The company is building AI agents to automate back-office work.

2026-05-13funding
Champ AI Emerges from Stealth with $8.5M in New Funding

Champ announced an $8.5 million funding round led by Redpoint Ventures to automate enterprise operations work. The startup was founded by former Instacart engineers Jagannath Putrevu, Ted Cheng, and Peter Lin.

2026-05-12
Instacart Veterans Raise $8.5 Million. Read the Pitch Deck.

Business Insider reported that Putrevu and cofounders Ted Cheng and Peter Lin founded Champ AI to automate operational work for other companies, alongside the company’s emergence from stealth and $8.5 million raise.

2026-05-12funding
Instacart veterans raise $8.5M for Champ AI to automate back-office operations with AI agents

Dealroom covered Champ AI’s $8.5 million seed round led by Redpoint Ventures. The company builds agents that turn internal policies into automated actions, such as logging into websites and completing operational tasks.

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Business Model

Champ makes money by selling AI-powered outbound sales and lead-generation services to businesses, including SaaS and professional-services companies. Public sources do not disclose specific pricing; prospects are directed to start through a sales consultation rather than a published rate card.

Products

Champ AI SDRAutomated campaign ideation and outbound strategyDeep prospect and decision-maker researchPersonalized cold-email generation, follow-up, and nurtureLead qualification, sales-pipeline development, and calendar bookingEmbedded GTM engineering services for enrichment, campaigns, and CRM automation

Customers

Beyond ExpoVATAAliveo

Tech Stack

Agentic AI/AI SDR agentsDeep web research and web crawling, including FirecrawlLinkedIn scraping and B2B database enrichmentGenerative AI for personalized email creationAgentic workflows for writing, polishing, reviewing, and scoring outreachDedicated email infrastructure and outbound campaign automationCalendar, time-zone scheduling, and CRM automation

Competitors

11x
Apollo.io
Outreach
Salesloft
Artisan
Regie.ai