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Artisan, founded in 2023 and backed by Y Combinator, sells Ava, an autonomous AI business development representative. Ava finds and researches leads, writes personalized multichannel outreach over email, LinkedIn and calls, and books meetings. It is sold as a SaaS subscription, and as of Q3 2026 the plans are quote-only Team, Scale and Enterprise tiers. Artisan raised an $11.5M seed round led by Oliver Jung in 2024 and a $25M Series A led by Glade Brook Capital in April 2025, with HubSpot Ventures participating. It reported about $5M ARR in early 2025 and launched Ava 2.0 for enterprise revenue teams in May 2026.