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Chevalier: Meaningful sales recommendations require proprietary models, not just signal data
“To have a meaningful recommendation, because you can also have recommendations just based on signaling data, which again, you can buy, but to be meaningful you need to do all this pre-work and data analysis and ingestion into your model to generate an alpha.”
Chevalier: Surfe hit $1M ARR in 18 months without sales team
“The first one million we've reached in one and a half years. So six years, that was quite fast. Six years ago, now I know. When you're in AI native companies, you probably may reach that faster, but big then it was pretty big for us, and we've reached that sol…”
Chevalier: Surfe partners with HubSpot alongside ZoomInfo and Apollo
“We are now one of the partners of HubSpot's prospecting agent next to ZoomInfo and Apollo, which are massive brands.”
Chevalier: International GTM motions require waterfall data enrichment for coverage
“First of all, I would always go for a waterfall provider. ... With a waterfall, and especially if you have a go-to-market motion, which is internationally, so you need more data providers as you may go abroad, so you need to add some specificity, a waterfall m…”
Chevalier: Surfe Built Its Waterfall Enrichment Engine for Google
“What we call a waterfall and what is famous now on the market. We started actually to build that three and a half years ago for our, one of our biggest clients, which is Google. And they had of course a few different data sources, but they didn't know like how…”
Chevalier: Surfe serves 50,000 users across over 10,000 paying customers
“So we are serving 50,000 users, that's more than 10,000 paying customers.”
Chevalier: Surfe became #1 app on HubSpot and Pipedrive marketplaces
“HubSpot marketplace, Pipedrive marketplaces we are the number one apps here, and this in combination, so the product, the growth story, and climbing up in the marketplace listing, plus then the more strategic approach to a partnership, these two combined were …”
Surfe raised a $5M seed and $5M pre-Series A, totaling $10M
“It was so we found a twenty-twenty, then probably it was 22, 23 where we raised a seed round of roughly five million, and then we've raised another pre-series A. It was an expansion, basically, with our investors of another five, so total capital ten million.”
Chevalier: Surfe finished 2025 at slightly over $9M ARR
“Last year was nine, nine million roughly, but a bit more than that.”
Chevalier: Surfe mid-market AE quota is $700K to $800K annually
“They carry like a mid-size AE carries roughly seven to 800 K per year.”
Chevalier: Roughly one-third of Surfe revenue comes from API and credit usage
“It's now a third, roughly as we have been launching it, as we have been launching it partially, I would say, beginning of last year it's now roughly a third, and that combines API that combines credits in product and recently MCP.”