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lemlist

lemlist is a sales outreach platform for finding contacts and running multichannel campaigns, with AI agents that suggest sequences and personalised copy, plus Claap, an AI call recorder for sales teams.

StageUndisclosed

Founded2016

HeadquartersParis, France

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• lemlist Application Sold on its own

  Outbound sales platform that finds ICP-fit leads in a 650M+ contact database, uses AI agents to spot buying signals, research and enrich each lead and write personalised copy, then runs sequences across email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS.

• Claap Application Sold on its own

  AI call recorder for sales teams that captures online, phone and in-person meetings and emails, writes notes and follow-up emails, fills CRM fields, scores calls against a sales methodology and flags deals at risk.

Inside Claap

• ClaapAgent AI agent Included with the parent

  Question-answering agent inside Claap that answers plain-language questions about one recorded meeting or a whole pipeline of deals, companies and people, citing the timestamped call passages each answer came from.

Inside lemlist

• lemAgent AI agent Included with the parent

  AI agent built into the lemlist outbound platform that turns a described goal into a campaign: it finds buyers, enriches contacts, writes multichannel sequences and launches them in lemlist.

Closest alternatives 1

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AAttioLate-stageClaap and Call Intelligence do comparable work on meeting notes and speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners and turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAvomaUndisclosedClaap and Avoma do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners and turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOtter.aiUndisclosedClaap and Otter Meeting Agent do comparable work on meeting notes and speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners and turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSmartleadUndisclosedlemAgent and SmartAssistant both list sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZoomInfoPubliclemlist and ZoomInfo Copilot both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMmonday.comPubliclemlist and monday CRM both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPipedriveLate-stageClaap and Pipedrive Nova do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners and turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare1111xEarly-stagelemAgent and Alice both list sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAArtisanUndisclosedlemAgent and Ava both list sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRegie.aiEarly-stagelemAgent and RegieGO both list sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQQualifiedAcquiredlemAgent and Piper both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded; Qualified is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOutreachLate-stagelemAgent and Outreach Revenue Agent both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZoomPubliclemAgent and Bonsai by Zoom both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.7 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAApollo.ioLate-stagelemAgent and Apollo AI Assistant both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFathomAcquiredClaap and Fathom do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners and turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded; Fathom is acquired, with no independent scale.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWWriterLate-stageClaap and WRITER Meet do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners and turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRoxUndisclosedlemAgent and Rox Revenue Agents both list sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWFWispr FlowLate-stageClaap and Wispr Flow Notetaker do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLinagoraUndisclosedClaap and LinTO Studio do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSalesloftUndisclosedlemAgent and Salesloft both list sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGongUndisclosedOverlaps on knowledge retrieval, meeting notes, sales outreach and 3 more; scale not recorded for either.6 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFirefliesUndisclosedClaap and Fireflies do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners and turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCClayLate-stagelemlist and Clay Sequencer both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHubSpotPubliclemAgent and Prospecting Agent both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSalesforcePubliclemAgent and Hunter by Sales Cloud both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCConversicaUndisclosedlemAgent and Conversica AI Agents both list sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNotionLate-stageClaap and Notion AI Meeting Notes do comparable work on meeting notes and speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBrevoLate-stagelemAgent and Aura AI both list sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGranolaLate-stageClaap and Granola do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCopy.aiAcquiredOverlaps on knowledge retrieval, sales outreach and workflow automation; lemlist's scale not recorded; Copy.ai is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSTSK TelecomPublicClaap and A. (Adot) do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHaptikAcquiredlemlist and AI Lead Qualification Agent both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded; Haptik is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCluelyEarly-stageClaap and Cluely do comparable work on meeting notes and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners and turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIiFlytekPublicClaap and iFLYTEK AI Recorder S6 do comparable work on meeting notes and speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners and turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGenesysUndisclosedClaap and Conversational Intelligence both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded; Genesys's scale not comparable: only a revenue estimate, no market cap or valuation.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSlackUndisclosedClaap and Slack AI do comparable work on meeting notes and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners; scale not recorded for either.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRingCentralPublicClaap and AI Virtual Assistant (AVA) do comparable work on meeting notes and speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHumanlyEarly-stageClaap and Humanly AI Notetaker both list meeting notes; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTIFINLate-stagelemlist and TIFIN AMP both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPubliclemlist and LinkedIn Sales Navigator both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.7 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRARelevance AIEarly-stagelemAgent and Elli, the Enrichment Agent both list sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDescriptUndisclosedClaap and Descript Rooms both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMManatalUndisclosedClaap and Manatal AI Notetaker both list meeting notes; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGensparkLate-stageClaap and Speakly both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBrightHireEarly-stageClaap and BrightHire Interview Intelligence do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMLMintplex LabsUndisclosedClaap and Magic Echo both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKrispUndisclosedClaap and Krisp do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDeepLLate-stageClaap and DeepL Voice for Meetings both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBABland AIEarly-stagelemlist and Bland Speech both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either; ships API service and agent platform rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHHirevueUndisclosedClaap and Interview Insights do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLindyUndisclosedClaap and Lindy both list meeting notes; both also serve buyers who need to turn a meeting into decisions and owners; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare0101.AIUndisclosedlemAgent and TopSales AI both list sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAbridgeLate-stageClaap and Abridge do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenEvidenceLate-stageClaap and OpenEvidence Visits both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCerencePubliclemlist and Cerence Assistant both list text to speech; lemlist's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTBThe Browser CompanyUndisclosedClaap and Dia do comparable work on meeting notes and summarization; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareYYandexPublicClaap and Yandex SpeechSense both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAdobePublicClaap and Adobe Podcast both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTATalkio AIUndisclosedClaap and Voice Control Pro both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEElevenLabsLate-stagelemlist and Dubbing both list text to speech; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCClickUpLate-stageClaap and Brain² do comparable work on meeting notes and summarization; lemlist's scale not recorded; ships agent platform rather than the same layer.4 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSpeakLate-stageClaap and Speak both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSpeechifyUndisclosedlemlist and Speechify Studio both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFreshworksPublicClaap and FireHydrant do comparable work on meeting notes and summarization; lemlist's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCColossyanEarly-stagelemlist and Colossyan both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUniphoreLate-stageClaap and Real-time Guidance Agent do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBridgeMindUndisclosedClaap and BridgeVoice both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTwilioPublicClaap and Conversation Intelligence do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGlean (Glean Technologies)Late-stageOverlaps on knowledge retrieval, summarization and workflow automation; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMPMeta PlatformsPubliclemAgent and Meta Business Agent both list sales outreach; lemlist's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAHAmbience HealthcareLate-stageClaap and Ambience do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDuolingoPublicClaap and Duolingo English Test both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; lemlist's scale not recorded.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNCNAVER CloudUndisclosedClaap and CLOVA Note do comparable work on meeting notes, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKHKakao HealthcareUndisclosedClaap and PASTA both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMurf AIEarly-stagelemlist and Murf TTS Reader both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAsanaPublicClaap and Dash both list summarization; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWLWellSaid LabsUndisclosedlemlist and WellSaid Studio both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSmartsheetLate-stageClaap and Smartsheet AI both list summarization; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCAC3 AIPublicOverlaps on knowledge retrieval, summarization and workflow automation; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRespeecherEarly-stagelemlist and AI Voice Lab both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEEntrataUndisclosedClaap and ELI Call Analysis both list speech to text; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCanvaLate-stageClaap and Magic Write both list summarization; lemlist's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMagnificUndisclosedlemlist and Magnific Creative Suite both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFlikiUndisclosedlemlist and Fliki both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBByteDanceUndisclosedlemlist and CapCut both list text to speech; lemlist's scale not recorded; ByteDance's scale not comparable: only a revenue estimate, no market cap or valuation.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIAInworld AIUndisclosedClaap and Realtime STT both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either; ships API service, infrastructure service and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDDecagonLate-stageClaap and Suggestions both list summarization; lemlist's scale not recorded.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrescendoEarly-stageClaap and Applied Insights both list summarization; lemlist's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCiscoPublicOverlaps on knowledge retrieval, speech to text, summarization and 1 more; lemlist's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIInception42UndisclosedClaap and Insight both list summarization; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMubertUndisclosedlemlist and Mubert Fuse both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSoundverseUndisclosedlemlist and Soundverse both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHeyGenEarly-stagelemlist and AI Studio both list text to speech; lemlist's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAiseraAcquiredClaap and Autobrief both list summarization; lemlist's scale not recorded; Aisera is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHyperWriteUndisclosedClaap and Scholar AI both list summarization; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCaptionsLate-stageClaap and Captions both list speech to text; lemlist's scale not recorded.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCartesiaEarly-stageClaap and Sonic / Ink both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either; ships API service and agent platform rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVVEEDEarly-stagelemlist and VEED both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePFPocket FMLate-stagelemlist and Sherpa by Pocket FM both list text to speech; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHiggsfieldLate-stagelemlist and Higgsfield Explainer both list text to speech; lemlist's scale not recorded.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHumbotUndisclosedClaap and ChatPDF both list summarization; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQQodoLate-stageOverlaps on knowledge retrieval; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSonioxUndisclosedClaap and Smart Scribe do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKakaoPublicClaap and Kanana in KakaoTalk both list summarization; lemlist's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 5 Oct 2026

"Lemlist a choisi de tracer sa route sans lever d’argent" — Maddyness, 20 Oct 2025: lemlist chose not to raise money (bootstrapped), so no equity funding total. The same article says that in 2021 the founder sold 20 % of the company for 30 million euros, which is a share sale, not funding into the company.

Founded

Regulatory filing · 11 Oct 2026

The French company register (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr, SIREN 823475082) gives LEMPIRE's date_creation as 2016-11-01. The product launched in 2018; the legal entity's creation year is recorded.

Description

Official documentation · 5 Oct 2026

"Know who to target and why now, find verified contacts, and engage across every channel from lemlist, your CRM, or your AI assistant." — homepage meta description.

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