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6sense Founder Amanda Kahlow Raises $30 Million for AI Sales Startup 1Mind

November 25, 2025

Written By: Emma Loggins Sprinkle

Amanda Kahlow is no stranger to building successful companies in the sales and marketing tech space. The founder and former CEO of 6Sense, which launched in 2013 as a lead-generation tool, has just announced a $30 million Series A funding round for her new venture, 1Mind. Led by Battery Ventures, this brings the startup’s total funding to $40 million.

What makes 1Mind different from the increasingly crowded field of AI sales agents? While most AI sales tools focus on outbound tactics like sending emails and making cold calls, Kahlow is taking a completely different approach. “I’m not playing in outbound,” she tells TechCrunch. Instead, her AI agent (named Mindy) handles inbound sales, working with prospects who are already interested and actively engaging with a company.

Meet Mindy: The AI Agent Handling Real Sales Conversations

1Mind has been quietly operating for about a year, and the results are impressive. The platform is currently being used by more than 30 companies, including major players like HubSpot, LinkedIn, and New Relic. According to Kahlow, all of these customers have annual contracts (not just experimental budgets), with an average contract value in the six figures.

So what exactly does Mindy do? The AI agent is designed to augment self-service websites and replace sales engineers on enterprise calls. It can handle everything from initial product demonstrations to closing deals and even onboarding new customers. “Our goal is to truly replicate the human experience across go-to-market when you have intent, when buyers are leaning in: they come to your website, or they’re in a zoom call. She can ride along and be the sales engineer,” Kahlow explains.

The technology behind Mindy uses a mix of large-language models including OpenAI and Google Gemini, but it limits hallucinations through deterministic AI. This means the agent operates with guardrails, reciting information from corporate sales materials without deviation. When Mindy doesn’t know an answer, she’s trained to say so rather than making something up.

From AI Agent to Personal Avatar

Kahlow has taken the technology even further by creating an avatar of herself called Amanda. She actually brought this avatar to her VC pitches. During Battery Ventures’ due diligence process, the firm used the Amanda avatar to navigate through the data room and ask questions about case studies and other company information.

“The conversation design is very nuanced, like what case studies it shares and when,” Battery partner Neeraj Agrawal told TechCrunch. He noted that customers were having such natural back-and-forth conversations that they would forget they were talking to an AI.

The Amanda avatar is still accessible through Kahlow’s LinkedIn page, where anyone can interact with it. The avatar can answer questions about 1Mind’s products and even share Kahlow’s perspectives on being a woman in tech (though it will consistently steer conversations back to 1Mind).

The Future of Sales: Agent to Agent Transactions

Kahlow believes that AI agents will eventually replace even higher-end account executive roles, or at least drastically reimagine them. “We’re not there yet where we’re fully replacing the AE. We’re replacing the website. We’re replacing the sales engineer, customer success, but that [AE/customer] relationship there is still happening,” she says. “I think over time, a lot of what the AE is doing right now will go away.”

Right now, it’s largely a trust issue. Buyers making large enterprise purchases aren’t quite ready to sign deals without human involvement. But Kahlow is already building for what she sees as the next phase: agentic buyers. In this future scenario, transactions will happen agent-to-agent without human avatars, involving direct transfers of information and requirements.

Despite building technology designed to automate sales roles, 1Mind currently employs 44 people (including salespeople) and has 71 job openings, including positions for account executives.

The Series A round included participation from Primary Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Operator Collective, Harmonic Growth Partners, and Success Venture Partners, along with angel investors from companies like Monday.com, ZoomInfo, Databricks, Box, Gong, Braze, and Verkada.

For women entrepreneurs watching this space, Kahlow’s success offers another example of how understanding a market deeply (she spent years building 6Sense before launching 1Mind) and identifying an underserved niche can lead to significant opportunities, even in crowded markets.

Emma Loggins Sprinkle

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Emily Sprinkle, also known as Emma Loggins, is a designer, marketer, blogger, and speaker. She is the Editor-In-Chief for Women's Business Daily where she pulls from her experience as the CEO and Director of Strategy for Excite Creative Studios, where she specializes in web development, UI/UX design, social media marketing, and overall strategy for her clients.

Emily has also written for CNN, Autotrader, The Guardian, and is also the Editor-In-Chief for the geek lifestyle site FanBolt.com

6sense Founder Amanda Kahlow Raises $30 Million for AI Sales Startup 1Mind

Meet Mindy: The AI Agent Handling Real Sales Conversations

From AI Agent to Personal Avatar

The Future of Sales: Agent to Agent Transactions

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