Apollo acquired Pocus, an enterprise revenue-intelligence company; financial terms were not disclosed. Apollo said the deal adds buying-signal intelligence and supports upmarket expansion.
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Updated Jul 28, 2026
Apollo.io (ZenLeads, Inc.) is a privately held, AI-native B2B go-to-market platform that combines a large contact/company database with prospecting, enrichment, sequencing, calling, inbound lead routing, deal execution, and AI-assisted workflows. Apollo says it was founded in 2015 and serves tens of thousands of paying customers; later 2026 company releases report more than 100,000 paying customers and 600,000+ companies/users at different counting scopes.
Primary product
An all-in-one AI-powered sales intelligence and GTM execution platform: B2B data, prospecting, enrichment, outbound/inbound workflows, sales engagement, dialer, deal management, and AI Assistant/agentic GTM features.
Founded
2015
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
700+ (Apollo official, 2026); third-party LinkedIn-derived estimate: 682
Work style
Remote
Industry
35 jobs at Apollo.io
Software Development / B2B SaaS
Sub-industry
Sales intelligence, sales engagement, lead generation, revenue/GTM automation, and AI sales software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage private company; Series D; privately valued at approximately $1.6B
Total raised
$251.3M
Latest round
Series D · Aug 2023
Latest amount
$100M
Aug 2023 · Bain Capital Ventures
Mar 2022 · Sequoia Capital
Nov 2021 · Tribe Capital
Jun 2018 · Nexus Venture Partners
Apr 2016 · Nexus Venture Partners
Leadership
Matt Curl
Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Board Chairman; former CEO
Ray Li
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Marcio Arnecke
Chief Marketing Officer
Adam Carr
Chief Revenue Officer
Phil Moon
Chief Financial Officer
Ralph Pyne
Chief Information Security Officer
Rachel Noble
Senior Vice President of People
Founders
Co-Founder; Strategic Advisor
Remote-first, high-autonomy, fast-moving and engineering-oriented; Apollo highlights customer obsession, extreme ownership, urgency, voracious learning, courage, and an all-for-one mindset. It describes a globally distributed team with in-person hubs, offsites, and collaboration across time zones.
Work style
Remote
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Apollo publicly signals strong salaries, performance bonuses, and equity for most roles. Visa sponsorship or support is role- and country-specific and is identified in individual job postings; public evidence here does not support a company-wide guarantee or reliable salary range.
Benefits
Pricing
Free-to-start/freemium offering with monthly or annual paid plans, seat-based pricing, and usage/credit limits for data, exports, and engagement. Enterprise pricing may be sales-led.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $145M-$200M annual recurring revenue, based on Apollo's 2025 $145M-$150M ARR disclosures and 2026 reporting that it was approaching $200M ARR; not audited annual revenue.
Estimated monthly visits
14.3M
Apollo acquired Pocus, an enterprise revenue-intelligence company; financial terms were not disclosed. Apollo said the deal adds buying-signal intelligence and supports upmarket expansion.
SourceFounder Tim Zheng moved from CEO to Board Chairman and Matt Curl became CEO. The transition was presented as a planned scale-and-execution phase, not a distress event.
SourceApollo.io · Apr 2026
Apollo's contact database was selected for integration into HubSpot's Breeze Prospecting Agent.
Apollo.io · Mar 2026
Major acquisition: Apollo acquired Pocus to accelerate its AI-native GTM operating system strategy and upmarket expansion.
PR Newswire / Apollo.io · Mar 2026
Apollo announced its acquisition of Pocus, adding revenue-intelligence and buying-signal capabilities; terms were undisclosed.
PR Newswire / Apollo.io · Feb 2026
Matt Curl became CEO while Tim Zheng moved to Chairman; Apollo said it was approaching $200M ARR and nearly 100,000 paying customers.
PR Newswire / Apollo.io · Oct 2025
Apollo announced an agentic platform unifying outbound, inbound, deal execution, and data enrichment through AI agents.