Bhattacharya: Alt Capital backed Jeeva.ai at $250K to $300K ARR
Gaurav Bhattacharya · 43 - AI, Entrepreneurship, and Bold Decisions: Gaurav Bhattacharya's Journey with Jeeva.ai · Apr 24, 2025 · at 11:12
Gaurav Bhattacharya is the founder and CEO of Jeeva.ai, an AI sales agent startup, discussing the company's early fundraising milestones.
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“Jack Altman was the CEO of Lattice and they have a new fund called Alt Capital. And he, I don't know how we got connected to him, but we were only at a, maybe two 50,000 or 300,000 dollars of ARR within the first few weeks. And we did a demo for him. He loved it. So he gave us some capital. Then Mark Benioff from Salesforce joined him because they were friends and Yeah. So we got funded a little bit pretty quickly and not a lot of money, but we got some capital from them.”
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