Genesy

Another day, another startup ranking. At this point, it’s hard to keep up! 😅 This time, we're proud to see Genesy listed by Sifted among the 10 fastest-growing AI agent startups in Europe, right alongside incredible names like: - Lovable - n8n - Legora - Sana - Dust - Swap - Salesforge 🔥 - Light - H Company Honoured to share the spotlight with companies raising hundreds of millions and redefining the AI space. Huge shoutout to our team! This growth wouldn’t be possible without you. 💪 📈 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/dSxeyw7a #Genesy #AIStartups #Sifted #Top10 #StartupGrowth #ProudMoment

One year ago we were taking our first steps. And today LinkedIn has selected us as one of the Top Startups 2025. Not only that: we’re #1 on the list. This recognition is not about luck. It’s about the talent and dedication of every single person behind Genesy. None of this would’ve been possible without: 💻 TECH coding like there’s no tomorrow 🎨 PRODUCT building what others only imagine 🤝 CS taking care of our customers like they’re family 📞 SALES never stopping until we get that “yes” 📣 MARKETING making sure the world hears our story 🌍 PARTNERS opening doors and creating opportunities 💡 PEOPLE finding the best talent to join the mission 💰 FINANCE keeping us sharp and growing ⚙️ OPS making sure everything runs And our CLIENTS for trusting and growing with us every single day This achievement is yours. #Genesy #TopStartups #LinkedInTopStartups #Teamwork #Startups

I joined Genesy because it’s rare to find all of this in an early-stage startup: 1. Rapid yet sustainable growth: €1M ARR in year one, with strong capital efficiency. 2. Founder–market fit: Kai Brandt experienced the pain we’re solving first-hand. 3. Customer-obsessed culture: we listen to customers and iterate relentlessly. 4. Ability to attract top talent: e.g. John Machado, who joined us as Head of Partnerships after 10 years at HubSpot. That mix of early scale and huge room to build doesn’t come around often. Want to join us? We're hiring in Barcelona: Customer Success Manager & Partner Success Manager. Apply if you want to: - Shape our CS & Partnerships playbooks from the ground up. - Work with a team that rolls up their sleeves and executes. - Have the chance to shape your role and where your career takes you. Important to know: - Office based, with flexibility when needed - Fluency in Spanish and English is required - Experience in SaaS and B2B is needed DM me or apply in our careers page: Genesy #hiring #saas #customersuccess

The US SaaS Market is worth ~225B. Europe’s ‘only’ at ~$95B. But in 2025, the best Tech isn’t coming from Silicon Valley anymore. Take Sales Tech. This market alone shall hit $141B by 2030. And, admittedly, the biggest organisations (HubSpot, ZoomInfo, Outreach, Salesforce, LinkedIn) all come from the US. That said, I’ll argue, some of the best breakout stories in recent years came from Europe. Here are some of my favourites: 1/ Attio 🇬🇧 Born out of London, Attio is revolutionising the CRM space, with their AI-native & automation-heavy approach. Not an easy task, with Hubspot & Salesforce dominating the industry for over 20 years. But teams are increasingly switching to Attio (including ourselves, at ColdIQ!). And the momentum is real, with them raising a $52M series B just yesterday. Not sure about their current revenue, but they quadrupled their ARR in 2025 already. Stay tuned… 2/ Instantly.ai 🇪🇪 Born between Estonia & India, Instantly went after Sales Engagement giants with a simple, yet powerful value proposition: “scale your email sending, without scaling your costs”. When every platform forced you to pay per seat for any new user, Instantly democratised email outreach at scale to smaller teams with smaller budgets. Some say it created ‘too much’ spam in the space. I say, big-budget organisations were just mad to find out that smaller teams could now compete with them volume-wise. They never share revenue numbers publicly, but I estimate them to be well above $20M ARR given their number of users. 3/ FullEnrich 🇫🇷 0 → $1.8M ARR on year 1. $1.8M ARR → > $5M ARR already in year 2. The numbers speak for themselves. Their software aggregates the best email & phone number finders in one place. It’s ColdIQ’s #1 platform to find phone numbers. 4/ Expandi.io 🇳🇱 Born in Holland, Expandi is the OG of LinkedIn outreach. They’ve grown to $10M ARR, completely bootstrapped, by sharing valuable tips on LinkedIn outreach and building one of the most comprehensive sales engagement solution in the space. 5/ lemlist 🇫🇷 Most probably the most notorious French success story in Sales Tech.  lempire is a > $34M ARR umbrella company that includes lemlist, Taplio, Tweet Hunter and lemcal. Even more notorious than their product itself, their branding/marketing has always been one step ahead. If you want to use a great multi-channel outreach platform, use lemlist. If you want to build a successful product in the GTM space, study lemlist’s growth playbook. There are a ton of other cool EU success stories, such as Genesy 🇪🇸, Aircall 🇫🇷, Ocean.io 🇩🇰, Pipedrive 🇫🇷, Crono 🇮🇹, Prospeo.io 🇫🇷, Twain 🇩🇪, HeyReach.io 🇲🇰 , Breakcold 🇫🇷, Reply🇺🇦 , PhantomBuster 🇫🇷, Bizzy 🇧🇪 & plenty more… Curious what’s the ONE EU SaaS you’re closely watching?

Last week was special 🇦🇷✨ We hosted our first event in Argentina, together with one of our Gold Partners 🤝 Sales leaders, founders, and innovators joined us to explore how we can create new opportunities and generate more sales pipeline. A big thanks to ELSA Consulting for making this possible, and to everyone who joined us. This is only the beginning 🚀 #Genesy #Community #AI #Partnerships #SalesInnovation

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We analyzed 900K+ outbound messages. And one channel stood out (with the highest reply rate by far). ✉️ LinkedIn DMs → 35% reply rate ✉️ Email + LinkedIn combo → 20% ✉️ LinkedIn InMail → 13% ✉️ Email only → 12% The difference is huge. And no, it’s not random. Traditional cold email is saturated. Most decision-makers instantly delete anything that feels templated. But LinkedIn DMs still work. Why? Because they feel personal. Conversational. Real. How to get more replies from your LinkedIn DMs: ↳ Break DMs into multiple messages, not a pitch ↳ Personalize with actual intent ↳ Lean on shared connections when possible What’s working for you?