Former Founders Fund VC Sam Blond launches AI sales startup to upend Salesforce  techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/for…

We're launching Monaco today. Monaco automates customer acquisition and revenue growth for startups. The platform disrupting sales with AI has finally arrived.

I’m thrilled to announce Monaco is coming out of stealth.  My brother Sam Blond and I started Monaco to build the first AI-native revenue platform for startups. We incubated at Human Capital and have raised $35M+ from Founders Fund, Human Capital, and an incredible group of

The step-change in AI capabilities gives us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rethink legacy workflows and the fragmented world of revenue systems - and to build something substantially simpler, automated, and connected from the ground up. That’s the core belief on which

I've tried probably a dozen CRMs over the years. Monaco is the first one that really understands the end-to-end lifecycle... not just "managing pipelines" but sourcing, scoring, self-driving pipeline management, midfunnel-engagement... The product actually looks like this and

I was CRO at Flexport from 0 to 1,000,000,000 and I legitimately think we could’ve gone twice as fast if something like Monaco had existed then. Sam Blond is the destroyer of worlds. The AI saas apocalypse is here.

We ripped out Hubspot, Attio, and a disparate suite of sales tooling in favor of Monaco. If you care about working with a vendor whose team is genuinely customer obsessed, I couldn’t recommend it more. We don’t find it necessary to request support often (product works!) but I

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Congrats Sam Blond, Abhishek, Prashant and the Monaco team on the launch and what a cool way to launch!

anyone else get hit with 5 online/irl touchpoints by Monaco today?

Holy cow Monaco already booked us an epic meeting on Day 1 after Go Live! Way to go team + Sam Blond Gonna be a great first week!!

Monaco paid for itself in one day!

We just launched Monaco. Here’s the exact playbook we used. I hope it's helpful to other founders and startups: 1. The launch video: most launch videos I see orient around some stressed out person at their desk or some philosophical approach to company building. Do not do this.

$100,000 cash prize founder poker tournament. No entry fee. Announcing The Monaco Invitational, presented by Monaco . This will be the largest founder poker tournament (and party) of all time. In addition to giving away $100,000 to the winners in the free to play

🗣️ calling all founder poker sharks Time to find out which ones know how to play Tag someone who talks a big game 👇🃏