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Atlanta Investors Back AI Sales Automation Startup In $2.5 Million Seed Round

Pitchit, an AI Lead Qualification as a Service (LQaaS) platform founded by Paul Kleen, closed an oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round led by Silicon Road Ventures with participation from Gray Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, and Alchemist Accelerator. The platform automates inbound lead qualification for B2C sales teams, having already helped qualify over 530,000 leads and close over $280 million in customer revenue.

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Summary

Pitchit, an AI Lead Qualification as a Service (LQaaS) platform founded by Paul Kleen, closed an oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round led by Silicon Road Ventures with participation from Gray Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, and Alchemist Accelerator. The platform automates inbound lead qualification for B2C sales teams, having already helped qualify over 530,000 leads and close over $280 million in customer revenue.

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ai-sales-automation · seed-funding · lead-qualification · startup · atlanta · venture-capital · b2c-sales

Key entities

Pitchit (organization, 0.99) · Paul Kleen (person, 0.99) · Silicon Road Ventures (organization, 0.98) · Gray Ventures (organization, 0.95) · Plug and Play Tech Center (organization, 0.95) · Alchemist Accelerator (organization, 0.93) · Frank Tighe (person, 0.95) · Atlanta (location, 0.97) · San Francisco (location, 0.9) · Lead Qualification as a Service (concept, 0.95) · Maija Ehlinger (person, 0.85) · Framed Data (organization, 0.85) · Paperspace (organization, 0.85)

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memo · language en · status final

Provenance

claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 9 Jul 2026