Founded 2015 by Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef. $584M raised, $7.25B peak valuation. ~$500M ARR. Revenue AI platform analyzing 5B+ customer interactions. Gartner Leader. IPO candidate.
Revenue AI platform · Founded 2015 by Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef · HQ San Francisco, R&D Tel Aviv · $584M raised · $500M+ ARR (May 2026) · $7.25B peak valuation (2021) · $4.5B secondary (Nov 2025) · 5,000+ customers including half the Fortune 10 · Gartner Leader · Fast Company Most Innovative 2026.
Gong at a Glance
| Company | Gong.io Inc. |
| Founded | 2015, Israel |
| Co-founders | Amit Bendov (CEO; prev. CEO of Sisense, CMO of Panaya, founding team ClickSoftware → Salesforce $1.3B) · Eilon Reshef (CPO; prev. co-founder Webcollage → Answers Corp) |
| Education | Bendov: Technion, Computer Science · Reshef: Weizmann Institute, Computer Science (summa cum laude) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| R&D center | Tel Aviv, Israel (~380 employees) |
| Product | Revenue AI Operating System — conversation intelligence, sales engagement (Engage), AI forecasting (Forecast), coaching (Enable), and AI agents |
| Total funding | $584M across 7 rounds |
| Peak valuation | $7.25B (Series E, June 2021) |
| Current valuation | ~$4.5B (secondary market transaction, Nov 2025 via Nasdaq Private Market) |
| ARR | $500M+ (announced May 12, 2026; 55%+ YoY growth; 10th consecutive quarter of accelerating growth) |
| Customers | 5,000+, including half the Fortune 10 · 60,000+ daily active sales reps · 1,500+ enterprise accounts |
| Employees | ~1,300 (2026), down from ~1,600 (2024) |
| Key investors | Franklin Templeton, Sequoia, Coatue, Thrive Capital, Tiger Global, Salesforce Ventures, Battery Ventures, Norwest |
| Recognition | Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Revenue Action Orchestration · Fast Company Most Innovative Companies 2026 (Applied AI) |
Gong funding history
| Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead / notable investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series A (Jun 2016) | $6M | — | Norwest, Next World Capital |
| Series A+ (Apr 2018) | — | — | Cisco Investments |
| Series B (Feb 2019) | $40M | — | Battery Ventures, Norwest, Sequoia |
| Series C (Dec 2019) | $65M | — | Sequoia, Battery, Norwest |
| Series D (Aug 2020) | $200M | $2.2B | Coatue, Index Ventures, Salesforce Ventures |
| Series E (Jun 2021) | $250M | $7.25B | Franklin Templeton, Coatue, Sequoia, Thrive, Tiger Global |
| Secondary (Nov 2025) | — | ~$4.5B | Via Nasdaq Private Market (company did not approve) |
Bendov and Reshef: Two Israeli Serial Founders Who Built the Revenue AI Category
Amit Bendov was part of the founding team at ClickSoftware, the Israeli workforce management company that Salesforce acquired for $1.3 billion in 2019. After a decade there, he became CMO at Panaya in the ERP space, then CEO of Sisense, the business intelligence company. Eilon Reshef grew up in Tel Aviv, studied computer science summa cum laude at the Weizmann Institute, and co-founded Webcollage, an e-commerce SaaS company acquired by Answers Corp in 2013.
The two met as colleagues in the Tel Aviv tech scene. The idea for Gong came from Bendov's experience running a company through a sudden sales downturn — he realized nobody could explain why deals were dying because no one was actually analyzing what happened on the calls. In 2015, when natural language processing hit an inflection point with recurrent neural networks, Bendov and Reshef saw the opening: apply AI to the one dataset every sales organization generates but nobody reads — the conversation itself.
They interviewed 50 buyers across different sales personas before writing a line of code. Gong launched with a single SDR in Israel, with Bendov and Reshef still based in Tel Aviv. Reshef built the engineering team in Israel; Bendov built the go-to-market in the Bay Area.
What Gong Does: The Revenue AI Operating System
Gong captures and analyzes customer interactions — calls, emails, meetings, and CRM data — across every channel a revenue team uses. The platform applies proprietary AI models trained on billions of sales interactions to surface insights, predictions, and recommended actions. The data layer underneath is what Gong calls the Revenue Graph: a rich data structure that connects all customer touchpoints into a single analytical surface.
The platform now has four core products. Foundation provides conversation intelligence — call recording, transcription, interaction analytics, search, and basic coaching. Engage is an AI-powered sales engagement tool that generates email sequences and prospecting workflows, positioned as a replacement for Salesloft and Outreach. Forecast provides AI-driven revenue forecasting and deal-risk scoring, positioned against Clari. Enable, launched in February 2026 as part of Mission Andromeda, adds AI coaching capabilities including Dry Run (role-play rehearsals using real customer context), AI Call Reviewer, and AI Trainer.
Pricing runs from roughly $1,600 per user per year for small teams down to $1,360 for 250+ users, with a $5,000 annual platform subscription. Enterprise deals typically run $150,000 to $500,000 annually.
The $500M ARR Milestone and Acceleration
On May 12, 2026, Gong announced that ARR had surpassed $500 million, with the most recent quarter growing over 55% year-over-year. This was the tenth consecutive quarter of accelerating growth rate — a metric that reverses the 2022–2023 slowdown caused by industry-wide sales team downsizing.
The reacceleration is driven by three forces. Enterprise boards are mandating AI-driven sales productivity, and Gong is the most adopted platform in the category. Companies are consolidating fragmented sales tech stacks — replacing separate tools for call recording, email sequencing, and forecasting with a single Gong deployment. And large enterprises are moving from AI pilots to production-grade rollouts.
Customer results that Gong has disclosed include Anthropic increasing sales productivity by 64% and saving sales teams approximately 10 hours of work per week, Uber for Business improving response rates by 32% using Gong's AI agents, Canva increasing salesperson productivity by 60%, and Paycor recording a 141% increase in deal win rates.
The Valuation Question
Gong raised its Series E at a $7.25 billion valuation in June 2021 — the peak of the enterprise SaaS valuation cycle. By November 2025, secondary market transactions via Nasdaq Private Market priced shares at roughly $4.5 billion, a 38% decline from the primary round. Gong did not approve those secondary transactions.
The compression reflected two realities: the 2022–2023 valuation reset across all enterprise software, and the specific headwinds Gong faced when its per-seat pricing model was hit by sales team layoffs across the tech industry. The $500M ARR milestone and 55%+ growth rate announced in May 2026 have repositioned the IPO conversation. Gong is now widely tracked as a 2027 IPO candidate.
Gong in the Israeli SaaS Landscape
Gong represents a specific Israeli SaaS archetype: founded in Israel, R&D in Tel Aviv (~380 of ~1,300 employees), headquarters relocated to the Bay Area for go-to-market proximity. The company sits in a direct lineage with Israeli-founded enterprise SaaS companies that defined global categories — monday.com (work OS), Wiz (cloud security), Sisense (BI), and Fiverr (marketplace). What distinguishes Gong is that it didn't just build a product in an existing category — it defined "revenue intelligence" as a category and is now absorbing adjacent categories (sales engagement, forecasting) into a single platform.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who founded Gong?
Amit Bendov (CEO; Technion CS, prev. ClickSoftware founding team, Sisense CEO) and Eilon Reshef (CPO; Weizmann CS, prev. Webcollage co-founder), both Israeli, co-founded Gong in 2015.
What is Gong's revenue?
Gong's ARR surpassed $500 million as of May 2026, growing at 55%+ year-over-year. Prior-year ARR was approximately $300 million.
What is Gong's valuation?
Peak valuation: $7.25 billion (Series E, June 2021). Secondary market: ~$4.5 billion (November 2025 via Nasdaq Private Market).
How much has Gong raised?
$584 million across seven funding rounds, from investors including Franklin Templeton, Sequoia, Coatue, Thrive Capital, Tiger Global, Salesforce Ventures, and Battery Ventures.
Is Gong an Israeli company?
Founded in Israel by two Israeli entrepreneurs. R&D center in Tel Aviv (~380 employees). Headquarters in San Francisco.
What is Gong's Revenue AI OS?
A unified platform combining conversation intelligence, sales engagement (Engage), AI forecasting (Forecast), coaching (Enable), and AI agents — positioned to replace a generation of separate point tools.
Is Gong going public?
As of mid-2026, Gong is widely tracked as a 2027 IPO candidate. No formal filing has been made.
Primary Sources
Gong press release, May 12, 2026 (ARR announcement). Calcalist Tech reporting, May 2026. Sacra and Latka revenue estimates (July 2026). Contrary Research company profile. Tracxn funding data. Crunchbase investor records. Fast Company Most Innovative Companies 2026. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Revenue Action Orchestration. First Round Review podcast with Eilon Reshef (February 2026). Cisco Investments interview with Amit Bendov.
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Profile last reviewed: August 2026.
