Who Owns Gong?

Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef founded Gong in 2015, splitting the company between a San Francisco commercial base and a Ramat Gan, Israel engineering center. The premise was that sales conversations were the least analyzed data in the enterprise: calls happened, deals were won or lost, and almost none of it was captured.

The product recorded sales calls and video meetings, transcribed them, and applied machine learning to surface what actually moved deals: talk ratios, competitor mentions, pricing pushback, and next-step commitments. It gave revenue leaders visibility they previously got only through rep self-reporting.

Gong coined the category name "revenue intelligence" and rode the remote-selling wave of 2020 and 2021, when every customer conversation moved to recorded video calls. The May 2021 Series E raised $250 million at a $7.25 billion valuation.

A slowdown followed as software buyers cut sales headcount through 2022 and 2023, hitting Gong's per-seat model. The company rebuilt around AI, expanding from call analysis into forecasting, engagement, and agentic sales workflows.

The re-acceleration arrived with enterprise AI demand. Gong passed $300 million ARR in early 2025 and announced a $500 million run rate in May 2026, growing more than 55% year over year, with a surge in seven-figure enterprise contracts. Bendov says a $1 billion run rate is within reach and an IPO remains the goal, though no date is set.