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Monaco

Automates sales tasks via AI-native platform

Forward-Deployed Account Executive - New Business

Full-Time
$150k - $200k/yr
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Executive

About the job

Requirements
  • Strong full-cycle outbound sales experience as a sales development representative and/or full-cycle account executive, ideally across a variety of industries and buyers.
  • Experience selling to founders, chief revenue officers, or revenue leaders.
  • A proven track record running high-velocity, full-cycle sales with short sales cycles of 2–4 weeks.
  • Experience selling against entrenched tools such as HubSpot, Salesforce, Gong, Outreach, and Apollo.
  • Strong objection handling, particularly around pricing, annual commitments, and product gaps.
Responsibilities
  • Run full-cycle sales, including prospecting, sequencing, outreach directly inside Monaco across email and LinkedIn, and contracting.
  • Conduct discovery and demo calls with founders, chief revenue officers, heads of sales, and go-to-market leaders at venture-capital-backed business-to-business companies.
  • Lead onboarding and kickoff as a forward-deployed account executive; align on ideal customer profile, buyer titles, artificial intelligence signals, total addressable market, and outbound strategy for each new customer; establish the outbound strategy and help customers generate meetings.
  • Partner closely with the product team to surface recurring deal blockers and provide pipeline data that shapes the roadmap.
  • Meet and exceed monthly quota in a high-velocity sales environment.
Desired Qualifications
  • Prior experience at a sales-led startup in the customer relationship management, sequencing, or go-to-market tooling space.
  • Personal experience using tools such as HubSpot, Salesforce, Outreach, Apollo, Salesloft, or Gong.
  • Familiarity with the buying dynamics of venture-capital-backed startups.
  • A track record closing deals with $25,000–$100,000 annual contract value.

About the company

Monaco is an AI-native sales platform that helps startups and other businesses grow revenue by automating sales tasks. It integrates into a company’s sales workflow, uses a meeting recorder to capture call notes, drafts follow-up emails, and updates CRM by creating opportunities and filling fields. Unlike typical sales tools, Monaco combines AI-driven note-taking, email drafting, and CRM updates in one customizable system tailored to a company’s go-to-market process. Its goal is to reduce manual sales work and provide guidance to close more deals, with public beta launched in February 2026 ahead of general availability.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$85M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2024

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What believers are saying

  • Monaco raised over $85 million by May 2026, signaling investor conviction and runway.
  • Hundreds of public beta customers before GA prove real demand, not slideware.
  • Overlayy integration expands Monaco's talent bench and improves AI sales conversation evaluation.

What critics are saying

  • Salesforce and HubSpot already own startup sales workflows, crushing Monaco's distribution window.
  • Coffee's fully agentic stack and Apollo's database make Monaco's hybrid model look slower.
  • If public beta churn stays high before GA, Benchmark-backed funding won't prevent a dead category.

What makes Monaco unique

  • Sam Blond, ex-Brex and Founders Fund, brings elite sales operator credibility.
  • Monaco unifies CRM, prospecting, meeting recording, and AI outreach in one system.
  • Overlayy's SalesQA benchmark strengthens Monaco's conversation intelligence and product depth.

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SYMEX ECONOMICS SA
Sep 4th, 2026
Benchmark-backed Monaco acquires Bengaluru sales intelligence startup Overlayy

Monaco, a San Francisco-based AI-native revenue platform backed by Founders Fund, has acquired Overlayy, a Bengaluru-based B2B sales intelligence startup. The deal brings Overlayy's team and technology into Monaco's platform, which aims to replace legacy CRM systems. Founded by IIT Kanpur alumni Anmol Chaman and Snehil Saluja in early 2024, Overlayy built AI systems that analyse B2B sales conversations at scale. The startup developed SalesQA, described as the most comprehensive benchmark for evaluating AI systems on real B2B sales conversations. The Overlayy team has integrated with Monaco, with founders Chaman and Saluja taking senior product and engineering roles. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Monaco is backed by Founders Fund and Human Capital, with investors including Garry Tan, Peter Thiel, and Ryan Petersen.

Business Insider
May 12th, 2026
Jack Altman's first Benchmark deal is an AI sales startup growing its revenue by 'seven figures' every month

The raise is the latest example of how quickly capital is moving into AI startups that are demonstrating strong revenue growth.

Benzinga
May 12th, 2026
Monaco raises $50M Series B for AI-powered sales platform

Monaco, an AI-powered sales platform, has raised $50 million in Series B funding from investors including Benchmark, Founders Fund, Human Capital, Alt Cap, Mantis and Saga VC. Garry Tan, Neil Mehta, and Stripe co-founders John and Patrick Collison also participated. The company combines end-to-end support with AI-enabled automations and a proven sales methodology to accelerate revenue growth for startups. Founded by Sam Blond, Monaco helps automate routine sales tasks whilst enabling sales teams to focus on high-value interactions that close deals. Monaco is currently in public beta, with general availability launching soon. The platform has seen strong demand since emerging from stealth, with customers seeing results including meeting generation and pipeline creation within days of onboarding.

TechCrunch
Feb 11th, 2026
Ex-Founders Fund VC Sam Blond raises $35M for Monaco, an AI sales platform with human experts

Former Founders Fund VC Sam Blond has launched Monaco, an AI sales startup, raising $35 million across a $10 million seed round and $25 million Series A, both led by Founders Fund. The company emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a public beta of its AI sales platform. Co-founded with his brother Brian Blond, a partner at Human Capital, Monaco targets early-stage startups with an AI-native CRM and prospect database. The platform automates sales workflows including email outreach and meeting scheduling, but uniquely employs human salespeople to monitor and guide the AI rather than replacing them entirely. The startup faces fierce competition from incumbents like Salesforce and HubSpot, plus numerous AI-focused startups. Blond positions Monaco as the next-generation platform leader, calling it the "'Cursor for sales'".