6sense
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2013CEO / Founder
Jason ZintakEmployees
1001-5000Funding
Series E — $426MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.9/10Website
www.6sense.com/
Profile updated
About 6sense
6sense is an account-based marketing and revenue AI platform founded in 2013 in San Francisco by Amanda Kahlow. The platform identifies in-market accounts, orchestrates personalized marketing across channels, and helps sales teams engage the right buyers at the right time.
6sense serves hundreds of enterprise customers including Cisco, Dell, and Lenovo. The company has expanded into conversational email, predictive analytics, and revenue AI for B2B.
6sense has raised approximately $426 million, including a $200 million Series E in 2022 at a $5.2 billion valuation led by Blue Owl Capital. Jason Zintak serves as CEO.
Specialties
Financials
Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.
Products by 6sense
All products by 6sense reviewed by our AI panel of experts.
How Our Review Panel Scores 6sense
Six independent reviewer personalities assessed 6sense's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.8 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.
Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.
Competitive Landscape
Who 6sense competes with, and how they differ.
ZoomInfo leads with a massive B2B contact and company database plus a bolt-on intent-data layer, while 6sense is built intent-first around AI account scoring and cross-channel GTM orchestration rather than being primarily a contact database.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewedDemandbase runs the closest like-for-like model to 6sense — B2B intent data paired with advertising and sales orchestration for account-based marketing — targeting the same enterprise ABM buyer.
Apollo.io covers a broader sales-engagement and contact-database motion at self-serve/SMB price points, while 6sense focuses on enterprise account-intent scoring and GTM orchestration for larger revenue teams.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedRollWorks (a NextRoll company) targets the SMB/mid-market end of ABM with simpler ad-orchestration workflows, whereas 6sense is built for enterprise revenue teams with deeper predictive AI account scoring.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in 6sense's history, with sources.
- Milestone
CEO transition: Chris Ball succeeds Jason Zintak
Chris Ball, former President and COO of Instructure, became 6sense CEO, succeeding Jason Zintak, who moved to Chairman after leading the company for eight years and scaling revenue from about $5 million to over $250 million.
6sense.com - Milestone
Surpassed $200M ARR in FY24
6sense surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2024, up 40% year-over-year with a 30% increase in customers.
6sense.com - Acquisition
Acquired Granite Media
6sense acquired AdTech provider Granite Media to lead advertising product innovation, alongside naming its first Chief Information Officer, Bryan Wise.
6sense.com - Funding
Series E — $200M led by Blue Owl and MSD Partners, $5.2B valuation
6sense raised $200 million in a Series E round led by Blue Owl and MSD Partners with new investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, more than doubling its valuation to $5.2 billion and bringing total funding to $426 million.
6sense.com - Acquisition
Acquired Slintel
6sense acquired B2B buyer-intelligence provider Slintel, which tracked technographic and contact data across roughly 15 million companies, to expand its data and insights capabilities.
6sense.com - Acquisition
Acquired Fortella
6sense acquired Fortella, an AI-driven pipeline-planning and forecasting company, adding revenue-goal reverse-engineering and pipeline-gap detection to its platform.
6sense.com - Funding
Series D — $125M led by D1 Capital Partners, $2.1B valuation
6sense raised $125 million in a Series D round led by D1 Capital Partners with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Tiger Global, and Insight Partners, valuing the company at $2.1 billion.
6sense.com - Funding
Series C — $40M led by Insight Partners
6sense closed a $40 million Series C round led by Insight Partners, bringing total funding to over $105 million after a year in which its customer base doubled.
6sense.com - Funding
$27M funding round led by Industry Ventures
6sense raised $27 million with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Venrock to advance its AI-driven account-based marketing platform.
6sense.com
Explore AI Software Reviews
Browse multi-perspective AI panel reviews across hundreds of AI tools, agents, and platforms. Find the right software with insights from CTO, Developer, Marketer, Finance, and User perspectives.