Sales teams are drowning in disjointed tools, manual note-taking, and scattered follow-ups, forcing reps to juggle slides, emails, and CRMs while prospects lose patience.
Today Lyra, emerged from Y Combinator’s X25 batch as one of its fastest-growing companies, today announced a $6 million seed round at a $40 million valuation led by 468 Capital, with participation from Rebel Fund, Y Combinator, Transpose Ventures, and executives from Ramp, Gusto, and Zapier.
The Broken Workflow in Enterprise Sales
Enterprise selling still relies on passive video calls and post-meeting data entry. Reps waste hours transcribing key points, hunting for documents, and updating CRMs, work that eats into deal time and leaves buyers sifting through email threads to find answers. “What’s missing is a live, intelligent layer between your business and the outside world,” says CEO and co-founder Courtne Marland. “Because when it’s easier to buy from you, more people will.”
An AI-First Platform That Lives on Your Call
Lyra replaces slide decks and screenshares with a dynamic 4K whiteboard that updates in real time. Under the surface, a hidden AI agent listens for decisions, surfaces relevant data and docs, and auto-creates follow-up tasks, all without interrupting the flow of conversation. Reps ramp in two weeks instead of three months, thanks to contextual prompts rather than memorized scripts. Today Lyra powers 200+ hours of calls each week for teams at Helix, Relate, Context, Educate, and more.
“Companies miss out on billions in sales from dropped follow-ups and slow processes,” says Marland. “Lyra is your invisible AI assistant, ensuring no prospect ever gets left behind in the busywork.”
Explosive Growth and Strong PMF
Since joining YC’s X25 batch, Lyra has exploded from $20K to $700K in revenue in just six weeks, cementing its status as a breakout startup. That rapid traction, combined with an intuitive user experience, caught the eye of 468 Capital and other backers.
“What impressed us most was how fast Lyra delivers value in live calls,” says Philipp Seifert, Partner at 468 Capital. “It’s rare to see this level of engineering paired with such clear customer impact this early.”
Founders Bringing Deep Expertise
Marland, a serial entrepreneur who scaled a seven-figure marketing agency to acquisition before age 22, teamed up with CTO Henry Kwon, a HackMIT award winner and full-stack developer. Kwon architected Lyra’s ultra-low-latency, browser-based platform and embedded the generative AI integrations that power its millisecond-fast responsiveness.
With $6M in new capital, Lyra plans to deepen its AI orchestration, add multi-participant collaboration features, and expand integrations with leading CRMs. As digital meetings dominate sales workflows, Lyra aims to become the go-to platform that turns every call into a productivity engine, automating notes, tasks, and CRM updates through natural conversation.
Lyra is available now at lyra.so.
