Bobyard Raises $13M for Autonomous Outbound

In December 2025, the AI sales platform Bobyard announced it has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round. The investment was led by Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), with participation from Work-Bench, Soma Capital, and Y Combinator.

The company is led by CEO Devansh Sood. Bobyard is building “Autonomous SDRs” designed to fix the broken state of outbound sales.

In the era of GenAI, inboxes are flooded with spammy, low-quality automated emails. Bobyard takes a different approach by focusing on “Hyper-Personalization at Scale.” Its agents don’t just fill in templates; they autonomously research prospects across the web (LinkedIn, News, Company Reports) to craft highly relevant, context-aware messages that are indistinguishable from those written by a human. By automating the research and writing process, Bobyard allows sales teams to move from “spray and pray” tactics to high-conversion, quality-first outreach without adding headcount.

The new capital will be used to enhance its research agents’ capabilities and expand its integration ecosystem with major CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot.

Market Signal

• Quality Over Quantity: This round signals a correction in the AI Sales market. The first wave was about “Volume” (spamming more people). The second wave, led by Bobyard and Gradient Ventures, is about “Relevance” (researching deeper). Investors are betting that only high-quality, researched outreach will survive spam filters in 2026.
• The “Agentic” SDR: Bobyard represents the shift from “Copilots” (helping SDRs write) to “Autopilots” (replacing the SDR function). This directly targets the OpEx budget for junior sales staff, offering a clear ROI calculation for CFOs.
• Vertical AI Defense: By focusing deeply on the “Outbound” workflow (Research -> Write -> Send), Bobyard builds a moat against generalist LLMs. The value isn’t in the writing (which GPT-4 can do), but in the orchestration of the research workflow.

Key Details

• Company: Bobyard
• Funding: $13M Series A
• Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
• Lead Investor: Gradient Ventures
• Founder: Devansh Sood (CEO)
• Use Case: Autonomous outbound sales and hyper-personalized SDR agents