Gong.io Ltd.

What does Gong do?

Gong sells a revenue intelligence platform that records and analyzes sales calls, meetings, and emails. Revenue teams use it to understand deal health, coach sellers, forecast accurately, and increasingly to automate sales workflows with AI agents.

Is Gong publicly traded?

No. Gong.io Ltd. is private. It has raised approximately $584 million in venture funding, most recently a $250 million Series E in May 2021 at a $7.25 billion valuation. Secondary trades in late 2025 priced it around $4.5 billion.

Who founded Gong?

Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef founded the company in 2015. Bendov serves as CEO and Reshef as chief product officer. Bendov previously co-founded analytics company Sisense.

Where is Gong headquartered?

Gong is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its largest development center is in Ramat Gan, Israel, with additional offices in Austin, Dublin, Singapore, and other locations.

How big is Gong?

Gong reached a $500 million ARR run rate in May 2026, growing more than 55% year over year. It employs about 1,700 people and serves more than 4,500 customers, including Google, LinkedIn, Canva, and Square.

Will Gong go public?

CEO Amit Bendov has said the company aims toward an IPO but has set no date. With a $500 million run rate, near-profitability, and strong cash reserves, it is considered one of the more credible IPO candidates in enterprise software.

Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef started the company in 2015. Bendov had co-founded analytics vendor Sisense; Reshef brought deep engineering background. They raised a $6 million seed in 2016 on the thesis that sales was the largest business function still run on anecdote.

The product found traction fast among technology sales teams, which were early adopters of recorded video meetings. Series rounds followed in quick succession: $20 million, then $40 million, then $65 million at a $750 million valuation in 2019.

The pandemic was rocket fuel. With field sales forced onto Zoom, every customer conversation became capturable, and Gong's August 2020 Series D reached $200 million at a $2.2 billion valuation. The May 2021 Series E added $250 million at $7.25 billion, near the top of the SaaS bubble.

The hangover was real. Sales organizations cut headcount through 2022 and 2023, compressing Gong's per-seat economics and slowing growth. The company responded by widening the platform: forecasting, engagement, and AI capabilities that made seat count less central to value.

The AI cycle reversed the trend. Enterprises that had frozen AI spending began demanding applied products, and Gong's conversation corpus became a defensible data moat. Growth re-accelerated through 2025 to the $500 million run rate announced in May 2026, and secondary market trades priced the company around $4.5 billion.

Gong has appeared repeatedly on the Forbes Cloud 100 list of top private cloud companies and ranks at or near the top of sales technology evaluations for conversation and revenue intelligence. It also holds sustained best-employer recognition in Israel's technology sector, where its Ramat Gan center is one of the more prominent AI development sites.

Gong's public record is largely clean. The main scrutiny is financial rather than legal: the gap between its 2021 valuation and 2025 secondary pricing attracted coverage as emblematic of the SaaS valuation reset. Call recording products inherently operate under consent and privacy rules that vary by jurisdiction, and the company maintains compliance features for two-party consent states and GDPR-covered regions; no major enforcement action has been reported.