Monaco, AI-native sales startup by former Founders Fund VC Sam Blond, raises $35 million in funding.
Some startups build product. The rare ones build revenue engines before the engine light ever flashes, and on February 11, 2026, Monaco stepped out of stealth in San Francisco with over $35M in funding and something far more interesting than capital, intent. A $10M seed and a $25M Series A, both led by Founders Fund, with Human Capital alongside Alt Cap, Mantis, Saga VC, and angels like Patrick Collison, John Collison, Garry Tan, and Neil Mehta. That is conviction capital backing a thesis about how early stage companies actually win.
Credit where it is due. Sam Blond, CEO and co-founder, knows revenue from the inside out as a former partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex. Brian Blond, co-founder, is a partner at Human Capital, former Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures, and previously a CRO at multiple startups. Abishek Viswanathan, co-founder, previously served as CPO at Apollo and Qualtrics. Malay Desai, co-founder, was formerly SVP of Engineering at Clari. This is not theory dressed up as software. This is operators who have carried quotas, shipped product, and sat in the investor chair deciding what scalable growth actually looks like.
Monaco is an AI native, end to end sales platform for early stage startups that would rather build product than assemble a stack of legacy CRM and point solutions. Inside 1 system, Monaco builds and scores total addressable market, prioritizes target accounts, identifies recommended buyers using signals like existing connections, job changes, and custom web signals, and generates outreach campaigns grounded in embedded go to market best practices. It records meetings, drafts emails, creates and tracks opportunities, updates records, and guides teams toward closing more deals while remaining customizable to each company’s sales motion. It recommends and takes action across demand generation through revenue conversion like an integrated agent inside your workflow.
The origin story is simple and sharp. Sam Blond and Brian Blond saw too many promising startups stall because they lacked sales expertise and could not generate consistent, repeatable revenue. Monaco embeds methodology directly into execution so founders do not need a world class CRO on day 1. The platform behaves like one.
Congratulations to Sam Blond, Brian Blond, Abishek Viswanathan, and Malay Desai for bringing Monaco to market, and to Founders Fund, Human Capital, Alt Cap, Mantis, Saga VC, and their angel investors for backing a revenue engine built for builders who understand that survival is earned 1 closed deal at a time.