Jeeva AI raises $9M from JLL Spark and Sapphire Ventures to build human-centered agentic sales tools

Sales teams have been hit with a long string of promises over the past year as startups pushed the idea of “AI BDRs” that claim to replace junior reps. Many buyers tried those tools and walked away frustrated—left sorting through low-quality emails, sifting through no-show meetings, and cleaning up messy CRM data. That disappointment created a vacuum for a product that actually helps sales professionals, rather than sidelining them.

It was this frustration that led Gaurav Bhattacharya to launch Jeeva AI, an agentic sales platform that automates the manual, time-consuming work that slows down sales reps. Today, the San Francisco startup announced it has raised a $9 million seed round led by JLL Spark and Sapphire Ventures, with participation from Jack Altman’s Alt Capital, Launch Capital, GTMFund, Nonstop Capital, Coyote Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Techstars, Marc Benioff, and Mucker Capital.

The company isn’t selling the idea of replacing sales reps with autonomous agents. Its pitch is the opposite: give reps an agentic system that clears repetitive work and keeps humans at the center of the process.

That stance struck a chord with sectors that rarely get attention from Silicon Valley sales software—real estate, healthcare, financial services, legal firms, and small businesses. Since launching earlier this year, Jeeva has grown to 35,000 users across more than 300 companies, including commercial real estate giant JLL. The traction was strong enough that JLL Spark decided to co-lead the round.

“Jeeva’s platform has been a game changer for our client facing teams across leasing, capital markets and advisory,” said Ajey Kaushal, Principal at JLL Spark. “By removing administrative busywork and adding intelligent AI workflows with human oversight, our deal teams can spend more time with clients and are seeing up to 10x gains in productivity without sacrificing service quality.”

Jeeva’s system automates the chores that drain hours from a rep’s day—research, outreach, enrichment, follow-ups, note-taking, reminders, and CRM cleanup. The company builds its own AI models trained specifically for sales workflows. Each user’s interactions feed back into the system’s memory, so messages become more personalized over time. New accounts can get up and running in around 10 minutes, and users report saving up to three hours per day.

Founder and CEO Gaurav Bhattacharya has a long personal connection to this work. “I’ve spent my whole life selling. Selling to customers, selling to investors, selling to prospective employees,” he said. “Humans should always be at the center of the sales process. Instead of trying to replace them, we want to supercharge them with an arsenal of agentic tools.”

Bhattacharya’s story adds an unusual layer to the company’s momentum. He grew up in poverty in India, built and sold a healthtech startup, and went on to become a Forbes 30 Under 30 founder. Jeeva is his third company, backed by a U.S. and India-based team focused on AI engineering.

The sharpest traction so far has come from commercial real estate, where brokers live and die by manual sourcing, outreach, and coordination. JLL isn’t the only one paying attention. “We are excited about Jeeva’s focus on underserved industries like real estate, healthcare, legal, financial, and professional services, where sellers have had limited access to modern sales technology,” said Aditya Reddy, Vice President at Sapphire Ventures. “Jeeva helps these businesses multiply go-to-market productivity, grow efficiently, and scale high-impact services across the non-tech economy.”