Monaco

Co-Founder / CEO @monacogtm. Fmr partner @foundersfund. Fmr CRO @brexhq

Monaco is an AI sales platform built for early stage startups that have product but no repeatable revenue motion. The system automatically builds and scores a startup's total addressable market, identifies recommended buyers using signals like existing connections and job changes, and generates custom outreach campaigns with embedded go-to-market best practices . It also automates sales call note-taking through a meeting recorder, generates email drafts and system of record updates, and gives advice on how to close more deals , replacing much of the work an early SDR and RevOps hire would do. This launch marks Monaco's $50M Series B led by Benchmark, with Founders Fund and Human Capital following on. Other investors in the round include Alt Cap, Mantis and Saga VC, alongside Garry Tan, Neil Mehta, and Stripe co-founders John and Patrick Collison . The timing matters because Monaco is moving from public beta to general availability, and the round was reportedly closed after Benchmark previewed the upcoming GA release. The company is led by CEO Sam Blond, formerly a partner at Founders Fund and CRO at Brex , who co-founded it with his brother Brian Blond (partner at Human Capital, former MD at Sutter Hill Ventures), Abishek Viswanathan (previously CPO at Apollo and Qualtrics), and Malay Desai (formerly SVP of engineering at Clari) . Sam and Brian started Monaco after observing that many promising startups struggle, and sometimes fail, in their early stages because they don't understand sales and cannot generate repeatable revenue , which frames the product as a way for founders to focus on closing qualified deals rather than assembling a sales stack from scratch.

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