Las Vegas AI startup raises $1M by solving sales teams' biggest headache: managing replies
RevReply, an AI-powered sales automation platform founded by Henderson resident Jay Wu and Ramsey Al-Ramahi, raised nearly $1 million in recent investments after placing as runner-up in the AngelNV competition, which featured more than 160 companies.
The company addresses a specific problem most sales teams face. Countless platforms automate outbound emails, but few handle the replies that come back.
"There are a lot of solutions that send out emails but there are very few companies that we can find that can help you when people start replying to those," said Jeff Saling, co-founder of StartUpNV, the state's business incubator. "A whole bunch of those leads just essentially fall on the floor. Nothing happens to them."
RevReply responds to sales leads automatically across email, social media, and messaging services in an average of three minutes. The platform uses AI agents-a class of AI that integrates with other software systems to complete tasks with minimal human supervision-rather than relying solely on generative AI like ChatGPT.
The company also received $200,000 from Berkeley SkyDeck, the University of California, Berkeley's official startup accelerator, which positioned RevReply as the world's first autonomous conversion system.
What the money funds
RevReply plans to use most of the investment to hire technical talent. Al-Ramahi said the focus will be building out specialized AI agents designed to find and execute the most optimal path to conversion.
"While a lot of platforms focus on lead generation, RevReply strictly focuses on the lead conversion piece," Al-Ramahi said. "More often than not, we are at least doubling companies' conversions without adding anything more to the top funnel."
Riipen, a work-based learning platform and RevReply customer, almost tripled the number of meetings it booked in the first month using the system.
The founders' background
Wu and Al-Ramahi met in 2023 on Y Combinator's co-founder matching platform. Wu handles technology while Al-Ramahi brings sales expertise-he spent his career in sales, starting with helping his father sell ice cream from a truck after immigrating from Iraq at age 7.
Al-Ramahi previously worked at Apollo, a $1.6 billion AI-powered B2B sales platform. He said RevReply aims to be "Apollo 2.0" by focusing on one function-conversion optimization-rather than offering a broad menu of features.
RevReply holds a 4.9-star rating on G2, a well-respected business software review platform, and is the youngest company on a list of 278 competitors in its category.
For sales professionals interested in AI for Sales or AI Agents & Automation, understanding how these tools manage lead conversion has become essential to modern sales operations.
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