6Sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1Mind | TechCrunch

"That's a crowded market where even her previous firm, 6Sense, offers agents. "I'm not playing in outbound," Kahlow tells TechCrunch. Mindy is intended to handle inbound sales, going all the way to "closing the deal," Kahlow says. This agent is used to augment self-service websites and, Kahlow says, to replace the sales engineer on calls for larger enterprise deals. It can also be the onboarding specialist, setting up new customers."

""Our goal is to truly replicate the human experience across go-to-market when you have intent, when buyers are leaning in: they come to your website, or they're in a zoom call. She can ride along and be the sales engineer," Kahlow adds, referring to Mindy with the anthropomorphic pronoun. Kahlow even goes so far as to call her AI agents "superhumans," though they are neither human nor do they possess comic-book-style superhuman powers."

"On Monday, the startup announced a $30 million Series A round led by Battery Ventures. This brings 1Mind's total raise to $40 million, the company says. Kahlow is well known in the sales and marketing tech world as the founder and former CEO of 6Sense. It was launched in 2013 as a lead-generation tool that tracked signals across social media and other sites to identify potential customers. She left in 2020."

LLM-powered AI agents are increasingly used in sales. 1Mind, co-founded by Amanda Kahlow, has shipped a sales agent named Mindy for about a year. The company raised a $30 million Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing total funding to $40 million. Mindy targets inbound sales rather than outbound outreach and can close deals, augment self-service websites, replace sales engineers on enterprise calls, and handle onboarding. Each agent can be trained on an expansive company knowledge base covering products, technical details, and competitive positions. The startup uses a mix of large-language models including OpenAI and Google. Mindy aims to replicate the human go-to-market experience when buyers show intent.

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