Ex-Googlers Secure $3.25 Million for AI Sales Agent Startup

San Francisco-based Breakout, an AI sales agent startup, has raised $3.25 million in seed funding after coming out of stealth mode. The company was founded by ex-Googlers Sachin Gupta (CEO) and Hitesh Aggarwal (CTO).

![Sachin Gupta (CEO) and Hitesh Aggarwal (CTO) are the cofounders of Breakout.

Breakout has developed an AI agent designed to manage inbound sales for software companies. The AI handles tasks such as demonstrating products and interacting with potential customers in the early stages of the sales process. Gupta used the analogy of an Apple store, where an AI sales agent could instantly give you the information you need about an iPhone instead of waiting in line for a human representative.

One of the main distinctions is in the level of personalization. Unlike some AI sales agents, Breakout’s tool is designed to avoid scripted interactions and instead offer tailored responses based on the customer’s specific needs.

“Especially as companies go through the growth stage and have a high-velocity sales process, they start facing a lot of challenges around the buyer experience,” Gupta explained to Business Insider. “That’s the problem we’re trying to solve.”

Breakout’s pricing is usage-based, starting with a base plan of 300 conversations per month. The startup currently has five key clients.

Gupta noted that while there’s a lot of investor interest in AI startups, there is also a high level of activity in the sector. He described the environment as “an interesting position for investors, because they want to deploy capital, but every day they also get to know another company which is building in the AI space.”

He added that a typical investor concern is data dependency.

“Investors tend to have certain business objections. They tend to ask, do you have access to data? And in our case, we don’t have a dependency on proprietary data.”

The $3.25 million seed round was led by Village Global, with participation from Recall Capital and Z21 Ventures. With the additional funding, Breakout intends to enhance its technological capabilities and fulfill its customer waitlist.