Clay's $7.1B valuation fuels GTM engineer rise
clay co-founder kareem amin says ai created tech's next big job category, changing company growth.
kareem amin, co-founder and ceo of clay, will speak at techcrunch disrupt 2026 about the rise of the gtm engineer, a role that clay coined in 2023. ai and automation are being used to build revenue systems that once required multiple people, tools, and manual processes. clay's own gtm engineering guide describes gtm engineers as practitioners who build automated revenue workflows rather than executing individual gtm tasks by hand. the company has seen rapid growth, tripling annual recurring revenue to $100 million in a year and announcing an employee tender offer at a $5 billion valuation, before raising a $115 million series d in september at a $7.1 billion valuation.