MAI $25M Seed Round Sales Trigger

🚀 Battle Card: MAI

• Yuchen Wu, Co-Founder &amp; CEO 📧 <yuchen@mai.co>

• The $25M seed round unlocks rapid scaling of sales and marketing teams—prime moment for outreach to plug into MAI sales trigger and secure initial enterprise deals. → Source

• No scalable sales process to convert the surge of leads from funding-driven initiatives (key MAI sales trigger concern).

• Fragmented marketing stack hindering performance optimization as spend and team headcount grow.

• Primary: CRM &amp; Sales Automation platform → accelerated pipeline visibility &amp; faster deal conversion

• Expansion: Marketing Automation &amp; Campaign Management → optimized ad spend and higher customer acquisition ROI

• HQ: San Francisco, CA

• Employees: ≈ 30

• Rev: ≈ $2M

• Website: [https://www.mai.co/](https://www.mai.co/)

🤼 Competitive Intel

• Salesforce — CRM &amp; Sales Cloud
• Unique edge: End-to-end sales process customization
• Evaluated by CEO &amp; Sales team for enterprise scalability

• HubSpot — CRM &amp; Sales Hub
• Unique edge: Integrated marketing &amp; sales analytics
• Evaluated by RevOps for ease of setup

• Pipedrive — CRM
• Unique edge: Visual pipeline management
• Evaluated by Sales for affordability

• Marketo — Marketing Automation
• Unique edge: Deep email &amp; lead scoring capabilities
• Evaluated by Marketing Ops for integration

• Pardot — B2B Marketing Automation
• Unique edge: Salesforce-native ecosystem
• Evaluated by Marketing for alignment with CRM

• Klaviyo — Email &amp; SMS Marketing
• Unique edge: Advanced segmentation for e-commerce
• Evaluated by Growth Marketing for ROI

• GitHub — Code Hosting
• Unique edge: Pull request–based workflows
• Evaluated by Engineering for collaboration

• Jira Software — Issue Tracking
• Unique edge: Agile project management
• Evaluated by Engineering leads for customization

• Datadog — Monitoring &amp; Analytics
• Unique edge: Unified observability
• Evaluated by DevOps for performance insights

✅ Do-Now Checklist

Next Step

🧠 Copy My Prompt for Personalized Cold Outreach

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✏️ YOUR COMPANY
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OUR_COMPANY   = ❑❑
OFFER_BRIEF   = ❑CRM & Sales Automation platform❑
PROOF_METRIC  = ❑≈ TBD❑
CTA_STYLE     = ❑quick_call❑
TONE          = ❑friendly❑

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📌 TARGET COMPANY
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NAME        = Yuchen
COMPANY     = MAI
DEPT        = Sales
SIZE        = ≈ TBD
BOTTLENECK  = No scalable sales process
EVENT       = Grabs $25M Seed Financing Round
DETAIL      = the launch of its flagship product & $25M seed
PAIN        = No scalable sales process to convert surge of leads
SRC         = https://vcnewsdaily.com/mai/venture-capital-funding/sngltrpktt
SIM_CO      = ≈ TBD
WIN_METRIC  = ≈ TBD
NEXT_SIZE   = ≈ TBD
EMP_EST     = ≈ 30
REV_EST     = ≈ $2M

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TASK FOR CHATGPT
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Validate any ≈ guesses via SRC.
Role: “NewsletterForLeads SDR-Assist”.

EMAIL  (keep breaks):
Subject: ≈ TBD-person Sales

Yuchen—noticed your Sales team is ≈ TBD.
That’s when No scalable sales process slows growth.
We helped ≈ TBD fix this with CRM & Sales Automation platform.
Result: ≈ TBD.  
Quick call?

PS—next bottleneck hits ≈ TBD.

DM ≤45 words, TONE:
Saw your post about the launch of its flagship product & $25M seed — No scalable sales process to convert surge of leads.  
CRM & Sales Automation platform. ≈ TBD. Quick chat?