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Ponyrun

Automate prospect research at scale

ponyrun.ai
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
1-10
B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

Ponyrun is a YC W22 San Francisco startup (formerly Nimbus) that uses AI to automate prospect research and prioritization for sales teams, especially when selling into enterprise and technical buyers. Public sources also show a separate assistant.ponyrun.ai call-screening product under the same Nimbus Technology Inc. entity.

Primary product

AI-powered prospect research and sales intelligence platform

Founded

2020

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

1-10

Work style

Remote

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

AI sales prospect research / sales intelligence

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States
France

Business model

SaaS
subscription

Funding

Stage

Pre-Seed

Total raised

$500K

Latest round

Pre-Seed · Mar 2022

Latest amount

$500K

Pre-Seed

Mar 2022 · Y Combinator

$500K

People & investors

Leadership

Liusha Huang

Co-Founder, CEO

Neil Chen

Co-Founder, CTO

Emmett Russell

Head of GTM Strategy

Founders

Nishothan Ithayakumar

Co-Founder

Investors

LEAP Global Partners
Sierra Ventures
Y Combinator

Work & culture

No public culture page was found; the company appears small, distributed, and launch-stage, with early-access messaging rather than a formal hiring/culture narrative.

Work style

Remote

Compensation

No public salary bands or compensation details were found; YC Jobs shows no open roles currently posted.

Product & market

Pricing

Early-access SaaS; public pricing is not shown for the core prospecting product. A separate Ponyrun Assistant page lists $5.99/month with a 7-day free trial.

Differentiators

  • —Automates prospect research rather than account qualification
  • —Targets enterprise and technical buyers
  • —Uses AI plus automation plus multiple data sources
  • —Lets users start from a search URL or a list of profiles
  • —Moves information and contact data through the user's tech stack
  • —Positions results as verifiable and real-time
  • —Supports prospect prioritization before handing off to third-party contact data providers

Technology

Twilio
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Supabase
AWS
Vercel
Common Crawl
Chrome extension
AI models
call forwarding

Customers

Deel
PingCAP
Clumio

Competitors

Outplay
Lasso AI
Boundo
Warmly
Magic Sales Bot
Koala
Bounti
Lyne.ai
Outreach
Reply

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $1M ARR (GetLatka, updated 2025-04-10); some third-party estimators are lower.

Estimated monthly visits

658

Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026

support@ponyrun.ai+1415996506

Latest news

What's the Deal with the Name "Ponyrun"?

LinkedIn · Aug 2024

Nish I. explains the company rebrand from Nimbus to Ponyrun and says the team wanted a cleaner GTM focus after spending too much time on branding. The post also frames Ponyrun as a do-over focused on helping teams sell to developers.

My startup gave a founder a great idea, and now they're in talks with the biggest car companies in the world

LinkedIn · Aug 2024

A customer story from Nish I. showing Ponyrun being used as a research workflow to help a founder explore supply-chain and vendor workflows, reinforcing the product's research-at-scale positioning.

As a founder, pivoting is a rollercoaster of emotions

LinkedIn · Jun 2023

Nish I. announces the Ponyrun launch and describes the product as a ChatGPT-like tool for sales data, focused on quickly answering pipeline and prospect questions with an iterative workflow.

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