HockeyStack founders’ $50M raise

HockeyStack said on April 15 that it raised $50 million and launched a new “Revenue Agents for the Enterprise” product for sales and marketing teams. (morningstar.com) The San Francisco company said the round included Bessemer Venture Partners, Y Combinator, and Uncorrelated Ventures, and brought total funding to more than $50 million. (morningstar.com) Y Combinator lists HockeyStack as founded in 2022 by Emir Atli, Arda Bulut, and Buğra Gündüz, with 65 employees based in San Francisco. (ycombinator.com) HockeyStack started as a revenue attribution company, a type of software that tries to show which marketing and sales touches helped create a deal. Axios reported a $20 million Series A for that business on January 28, 2025. (axios.com) By October 29, 2025, HockeyStack said it was expanding that attribution platform with two artificial intelligence agents called Odin and Nova after growing revenue 4.5 times in the prior year. (hockeystack.com) The company now describes its newer product as software that connects to a business’s sales, marketing, product, and customer-success systems, cleans that data, and lets artificial intelligence agents act on it. HockeyStack says those agents can answer questions, score accounts, automate research, and trigger workflows. (hockeystack.com) On its enterprise page, HockeyStack says it works with more than 200 go-to-market teams and processes more than 400 billion rows of data a day across customer systems. (hockeystack.com) Bessemer said after the 2025 round that the founders had “graduated from Y Combinator last summer” and were shipping product quickly under Chief Executive Officer Buğra Gündüz, Chief Technology Officer Arda Bulut, and Chief Revenue Officer Emir Atlı. (bvp.com) Public materials from HockeyStack and Y Combinator confirm the founders and the funding history, but the widely shared claims about a near-bankruptcy stretch in San Francisco were not detailed in the company’s funding announcement or investor posts reviewed here. A YouTube interview description with co-founder Emir Atli says the company moved to San Francisco with five customers and went through failed ventures and pivots before reaching Series A. (youtube.com) The new round lands as software startups keep repackaging analytics tools as artificial intelligence “agents” that do work instead of only producing dashboards. HockeyStack is now trying to sell that shift to large business-to-business revenue teams from the same data foundation it first built for attribution. (hockeystack.com)