
TechCrunch: Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to
The problem Floqer is trying to solve is familiar to anyone who has worked in sales or revenue operations.
Floqer is a platform that uses AI agents to automatically research sales prospects and maintain customer information for business-to-business sales teams. Instead of manually searching Google, LinkedIn, and other sources to find potential customers and their contact details, users can describe what they are looking for and the AI agents build lists of relevant companies and contacts while continuously monitoring for updates like job changes or company funding. The startup says customers have reported cutting prospecting time by as much as 70 percent, and it plans to open-source its autonomous customer knowledge database in early 2027 after security reviews.
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