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Artisan Funding History

Artisan builds AI agents for business development. Its Ava agent handles work typically done by a business development representative.

Company Overview

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Artisan

  • Sales Outreach

Founded 2023 · San Francisco, California, US

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Artisan Funding Timeline

  1. Announced Apr 9, 2025

    Series A

    $25M

    Artisan announced plans to develop Ava beyond individual sales tasks so it could run multi-step outbound campaigns and adjust them as they progressed.

    Led by Glade Brook Capital. Participation included HubSpot Ventures, Oliver Jung, Day One Ventures, BOND, Soma Capital, Sequoia Scouts.

    Source · artisan.co ↗

  2. Announced Sep 30, 2024

    Seed

    US$11.5 million

    Artisan said the financing was an uncapped SAFE with a discount on conversion into its Series A.

    Led by Oliver Jung. Participation included HubSpot Ventures, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital.

    Source · artisan.co ↗

  3. Nov 2023

    Pre-Seed

    ~US$2.3 million

    Artisan raised the round ahead of the launch of Ava, its first AI worker for outbound sales.

    Participation included Bayhouse Capital, Oliver Jung.

    Source · tech.eu ↗

Artisan Founding Team

Jaspar Carmichael-Jack started Artisan after seeing how much manual work went into sales development and how fragmented the tools were. The founding team set out to bring tasks such as prospect research, outreach and CRM updates into one workflow. The founding team included Sam Stallings and Rupert Dodkins.

Artisan Products

  • Ava

    Find contacts for sales campaigns and automate the outreach that follows.

Artisan Company Development

Rebuilding Ava for an Enterprise Sales Workflow

Artisan rebuilt its outbound agent as Ava 2.0 in 2026. The release brought the steps needed to run an outbound program together so teams could use one service for tasks they previously handled with separate tools.

Artisan Competitive Landscape

Outbound Work Inside a Broader Sales Process

Artisan’s Ava and 11x’s Alice both focus on outbound sales development. 11x also offers Julian for inbound response, making Artisan most directly comparable where a team is evaluating prospecting and outbound campaigns rather than automation on both sides of the funnel.