San Francisco just dropped a new kind of intelligence, and no, it’s not another chatbot pretending to be your SDR. This one’s got presence, pulse, and profit motive. 1mind, founded by Amanda Kahlow, just came out of stealth swinging with a $30M Series A led by Battery Ventures, with Primary Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Operator Collective, Harmonic Growth Partners, Success Venture Partners, and Alumni Ventures all jumping in. Add angel investors from Databricks, ZoomInfo, Monday.com, Box, Gong, Braze, and Verkada, and it’s clear: everyone wants a piece of this future.
Amanda Kahlow, the same powerhouse who built 6sense into a unicorn, isn’t replaying her old hits; she’s dropping an entirely new genre. 1mind pioneers AI-led growth (AILG), bringing photorealistic, emotionally intelligent “Superhumans” into the sales process, digital teammates who never sleep, never stall, and know your product like they coded it themselves. They’re already working live across 45+ enterprise customers, HubSpot, ZoomInfo, Coupa, Nutanix, Seismic, New Relic, driving millions in ARR with zero churn.
On the tech side, CTO Sachin Bhat brings the kind of engineering pedigree you can’t fake. His last YC startup was acquired by Rippling, where he scaled $100M+ ARR product lines and led AI infrastructure. At 1mind, he’s building Superhumans that think, talk, and decide in real time, without hallucination. Their deterministic AI architecture means if it doesn’t know something, it admits it. That’s not wishful AI; it’s enterprise-grade discipline.
The results speak louder than any pitch deck. HubSpot’s Superhuman “Fiona” hit an 88% engagement rate, lifted free trials 78%, and increased closed/won deals 25%. Fiona handles the entire SMB sales cycle, pitch to close, with no human assist. Customers are seeing 2–5x conversion jumps, 20-day shorter sales cycles, and ACVs that doubled. That’s not automation; that’s amplification.
Battery Ventures’ Neeraj Agrawal and Brandon Gleklen saw this story once before with 6sense. Backing Amanda Kahlow again isn’t nostalgia; it’s recognition. The same mind that turned ABM into a movement just defined AILG as the next power lane. Cassie Young at Primary Ventures, who led the seed and doubled down for the A, clearly gets it too: founders who create categories don’t chase markets; they make them.
1mind isn’t another AI startup chasing modern hype; it’s the infrastructure for how business will actually grow. Real customers. Real $$. Real ROI. If 6sense helped you find the buyer, 1mind helps you close them. The only question now, are you moving fast enough to keep up?
