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Popl creates digital business card solutions using NFC-enabled devices like keychains, wristbands, and cards to share contact details with a tap, without the recipient needing a Popl app. The devices can be customized for individuals or brands, and work by exchanging contact info instantly when touched to a phone. Popl differentiates itself by combining physical NFC hardware with branding customization, paid software features, and scalable distribution for individuals, businesses, events, and sales teams, plus an ambassador program. Its goal is to replace paper business cards with fast, shareable digital exchanges and to help users manage and analyze their networking data.
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Data & Analytics
Consumer Software
Enterprise Software
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$310K
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
Founded
2020
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Popl, RocketReach announce category-defining data partnership. Popl, the leading AI platform for event lead capture and in-person go-to-market, and RocketReach, the leading sales and lead intelligence platform trusted by more than 30 million users, today announce a strategic partnership to power the future of in-person go-to-market. RocketReach operates one of the world's largest contact databases, spanning over 700 million professional profiles and 60 million company profiles. Their industry-leading verification tools are trusted by 95% of the S&P 500, vetting over 200 million emails and 190 million phone numbers monthly to deliver accurate, real-time intelligence to sales, marketing, and business development teams worldwide. The partnership gives Popl access to RocketReach's 700 million professional profiles, including pre-verified contact information and live signals. The collaboration strengthens Popl's AI-native data engine, lead capture, and in-person GTM while creating opportunities to expand into prospecting, pre-event intelligence, signals, and new AI-powered experiences built around in-person interactions. The companies believe it is the first publicly announced agreement of its kind in the B2B data enrichment industry. "We call RocketReach 'the everything provider,'" said Jason Alco, founder and CEO of Popl. "Most data providers specialize in one data category, such as email addresses or phone numbers. RocketReach spans the entire data ecosystem, from contact and company intelligence to healthcare professional data, prospecting APIs, signals, and much more. The breadth and depth of their data are extraordinary." "Popl is the leading provider for in-person events. Their product is unmatched, and this partnership sets the foundation for both companies to capture the tailwinds around the evolution of GTM. We're excited to work strategically with Popl's team, in supporting their product roadmap," said Scott Kim, CEO of RocketReach. Powering the in-person AI revolution. Popl's AI-native platform lets teams scan event badges and capture face-to-face conversations, transforming those interactions into verified professional profiles complete with contact and company data, conversational intelligence, CRM context, and clear next steps. RocketReach serves as a primary data source across every part of Popl's enrichment engine, supplying verified contact, company, phone, and prospecting data from 700 million professional profiles. Its combination of scalable economics and millisecond API response times enables Popl to enrich millions of interactions in real time, making RocketReach uniquely suited for in-person use cases. The companies also intend to expand their work beyond enrichment and into pre-event prospecting. Using RocketReach's vetted data and lead intelligence, Popl will help teams identify and enrich exhibiting companies before an event, uncover the right decision-makers within those accounts, and build targeted outreach lists before anyone arrives on the show floor. This will allow revenue teams to prioritize who they want to meet, begin conversations in advance, and give AI agents the company and contact context needed to make each in-person interaction more valuable. Through the option agreement, both companies gain the flexibility to deepen the partnership as the category grows, moving beyond a conventional vendor relationship toward long-term strategic alignment. To share your insights, please write to ABM partnership at [email protected]
Popl and Apollo.io join forces to power the data layer of in-person events. Jul 14, 2026, 12:45 ET Apollo.io to serve as a key data source behind Popl's AI-native data enrichment engine, helping deliver 97%+ data coverage on in-person interactions NEW YORK, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Popl, the leading AI-powered platform for in-person go-to-market, today announced a data collaboration with Apollo.io, a leading AI-native go-to-market platform with one of the largest B2B data networks, covering 240M+ contacts and 30M+ companies. The agreement establishes Apollo as a key data source for Popl's enrichment engine, the system that turns real-world interactions, like a scanned badge at an event, into complete, CRM-ready contact records. The tie-up deepens an existing relationship between the two companies and brings Apollo's data scale and quality into one of the fastest-growing categories in go-to-market: event lead capture and in-person revenue intelligence. "Every great GTM platform is only as strong as the data underneath it," said Jason Alco, CEO and founder of Popl. "Apollo has built one of the most powerful B2B data networks in the market, and this agreement brings that strength directly into the event lead capture workflow. Together, we're helping customers turn in-person conversations into more complete, more accurate pipeline data in seconds." "Popl is AI-native, fast-moving, and obsessed with turning real-world moments into pipeline," said Scott Singerman, VP Partnerships, Apollo.io. "Putting Apollo's robust and fresh data behind their engine helps their customers act on every conversation in seconds and enable modern go-to-market." How Apollo helps power Popl's data engine Popl's AI-native waterfall enrichment approach combines premium data with proprietary AI agents built in-house. When a customer captures a lead in person, Popl draws on 20+ hand-picked data partners, including Apollo, to identify and enrich contact and company data. Popl then deploys proprietary AI agents to help fill remaining gaps through AI web discovery, smart email prediction, and real-time validation. This combination of Apollo's robust B2B data network and Popl's real-time enrichment engine helps enable 97%+ data coverage on in-person interactions. Apollo plays a primary role in the enrichment waterfall by contributing fresh contact and company data that helps make high coverage possible at scale. Combined with Popl's AI matching and resolution layer, the result is clean, CRM-ready data that flows directly into systems like Salesforce and HubSpot, closing the gap between a conversation at a booth and a tracked, attributable opportunity in pipeline. "As we scale, the goal is simple: give event and revenue teams the most complete picture possible of who they met and what to do next, with enriched data returned in seconds," Alco added. "By teaming up with Apollo, we expand what we can deliver to customers, from stronger coverage and accuracy to new layers of data and intelligence." About Popl Popl is the AI-powered platform for in-person go-to-market, turning real-world interactions at trade shows and events into CRM-ready pipeline data. Through badge scanning, AI-native enrichment, native CRM integrations, and ROI reporting, Popl helps revenue teams capture, enrich, and act on leads the moment they're met. Popl is a Y Combinator company (W21). Learn more at https://popl.co. About Apollo Apollo.io is the AI-powered end-to-end go-to-market platform that empowers sales, marketing, and revenue teams to find prospects, engage customers, and close deals with intelligence and efficiency. Trusted by millions of users and hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide, Apollo uniquely combines one of the industry's largest B2B contact databases with an AI-native GTM platform to help teams of any size deliver revenue growth at scale. Learn more at https://apollo.io. SOURCE Popl
Popl launches world's first AI assistant for events in Anthropic's Claude. Jul 07, 2026, 14:16 ET Popl's new native Claude connector turns the hardest workflows in event lead capture and event marketing into natural language conversations. NEW YORK, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Popl, the leading event lead capture platform, today launches Popl for Claude, the world's first AI assistant purpose-built for in-person events and the first event-focused connector available natively in Claude, Anthropic's industry-leading AI assistant. Popl for Claude turns the workflows event teams have historically stitched together across spreadsheets, CRMs, enrichment tools, and post-show decks into a single conversation. Through natural language, marketers can identify and research target buyers attending an upcoming show, analyze and prioritize leads captured with Popl, and generate leadership-ready ROI reports - all without opening a dashboard. Core use cases at launch: * ROI reporting: Generate executive-ready event ROI reports, finally making offline interactions measurable the way digital channels have been for years. * Post-show analysis: Synthesize booth conversations, notes, and lead qualifying questions into structured, human readable outputs. * Lead prioritization: Prioritize which leads to reach out to post-show by telling Claude about your ICP and letting it analyze lead data from Popl. * Pre-show prospecting: Surface target buyers attending the show and the right contacts to reach out to before doors open. * Contact & company enrichment: Pull verified contact and company data on every captured lead. Event ROI reporting has been one of event marketing's most persistent challenges. Offline measurement has always lagged digital, leaving event managers to defend budget with anecdotes instead of numbers. Popl for Claude closes the gap. The build decision The product came out of a realization, not a roadmap. "We talk to event marketers every day, and we kept hearing the same pain points," said Jason Alco, CEO of Popl. "We were planning to solve them the traditional way: design new dashboards, build new UI, ship things across several months. Then it hit us, all the data already lives in Popl and our customers' CRMs. Claude is incredibly good at turning that kind of data into custom reports, CSVs, and visualizations from a single natural language prompt. So instead of building more structured UI, we went AI-native and made Claude the frontend. Our customers get the value in days, not months, and can customize the Claude outputs however they want." Because Claude's outputs are adaptive, the same underlying data can become a tight summary, a side-by-side comparison, a CSV, or a fully custom report depending on how the user asks. That flexibility is the point. A structured dashboard UI gives every user the same charts and the same filters; an AI-native frontend gives every user exactly the view they need, in the format they need it, without waiting on a product team to ship it. Availability Popl for Claude is now available to Popl customers that have an event lead capture plan. Install the native Claude connector directly here: Connect Here. To help customers get to value on day one, Popl has published an AI prompt library covering the most common event lead capture workflows, alongside a dedicated knowledge base page link with setup guides, examples, and best practices. About Popl Popl is the leading AI-native event lead capture platform for B2B companies, powering 1M+ badge scans across thousands of enterprise customers worldwide. With industry-leading AI data enrichment and an AI-first product roadmap, Popl continues to define how modern revenue teams convert in-person interactions into pipeline. SOURCE Popl
Popl, an event lead capture platform, has launched Popl for Claude, an AI assistant designed for in-person events. The tool integrates with Anthropic's Claude AI to help event marketers handle workflows traditionally managed across spreadsheets and CRMs through natural language conversations. The assistant enables users to generate event ROI reports, analyse booth conversations, prioritise leads, and conduct pre-show prospecting without opening dashboards. Event marketers can identify target buyers, synthesise lead data, and create executive-ready reports through conversational prompts. Popl CEO Jason Alco said the company chose to make Claude the frontend rather than building traditional UI, allowing customers to receive customised outputs in days instead of months. The connector is available to Popl customers with event lead capture plans. Popl powers over 1 million badge scans for enterprise customers worldwide.
Popl launches world's first AI assistant for events in Anthropic's Claude. Popl Newsroom - Immediate Release Jul 7, 2026 Popl, the leading event lead capture platform, today launches Popl for Claude, the world's first AI assistant purpose-built for in-person events and the first event-focused connector available natively in Claude, Anthropic's industry-leading AI assistant. Popl for Claude turns the workflows event teams have historically stitched together across spreadsheets, CRMs, enrichment tools, and post-show decks into a single conversation. Through natural language, marketers can identify and research target buyers attending an upcoming show, analyze and prioritize leads captured with Popl, and generate leadership-ready ROI reports - all without opening a dashboard. Core use cases at launch: * ROI reporting: Generate executive-ready event ROI reports, finally making offline interactions measurable the way digital channels have been for years. * Post-show analysis: Synthesize booth conversations, notes, and lead qualifying questions into structured, human readable outputs. * Lead prioritization: Prioritize which leads to reach out to post-show by telling Claude about your ICP and letting it analyze lead data from Popl. * Pre-show prospecting: Surface target buyers attending the show and the right contacts to reach out to before doors open. * Contact & company enrichment: Pull verified contact and company data on every captured lead. Event ROI reporting has been one of event marketing's most persistent challenges. Offline measurement has always lagged digital, leaving event managers to defend budget with anecdotes instead of numbers. Popl for Claude closes the gap. The build decision. The product came out of a realization, not a roadmap. "We talk to event marketers every day, and we kept hearing the same pain points," said Jason Alco, CEO of Popl. "We were planning to solve them the traditional way: design new dashboards, build new UI, ship things across several months. Then it hit us, all the data already lives in Popl and our customers' CRMs. Claude is incredibly good at turning that kind of data into custom reports, CSVs, and visualizations from a single natural language prompt. So instead of building more structured UI, we went AI-native and made Claude the frontend. Our customers get the value in days, not months, and can customize the Claude outputs however they want." Because Claude's outputs are adaptive, the same underlying data can become a tight summary, a side-by-side comparison, a CSV, or a fully custom report depending on how the user asks. That flexibility is the point. A structured dashboard UI gives every user the same charts and the same filters; an AI-native frontend gives every user exactly the view they need, in the format they need it, without waiting on a product team to ship it. Availability. Popl for Claude is now available to Popl customers that have an event lead capture plan. Install the native Claude connector directly here: Connect Here. To help customers get to value on day one, Popl has published an AI prompt library covering the most common event lead capture workflows, alongside a dedicated knowledge base page link with setup guides, examples, and best practices. About Popl. Popl is the leading AI-native event lead capture platform for B2B companies, powering 1M+ badge scans across thousands of enterprise customers worldwide. With industry-leading AI data enrichment and an AI-first product roadmap, Popl continues to define how modern revenue teams convert in-person interactions into pipeline.
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Industries
Data & Analytics
Consumer Software
Enterprise Software
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$310K
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
Founded
2020
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