SMB search engine for sales teams 🔍
Sales is about building relationships 🤝 — but you wouldn’t know it from watching most sales teams today. The average sales rep spends 1-2 days per week researching and list-building instead of spending time with customers. We’re building the most comprehensive index of small businesses in the world, combined with elegant software that gives salespeople superpowers. Our stodgy competitors have been around for 100 years and have not innovated in decades. Modern sales teams deserve better! Ciro is a tight-knit team of engineers, sales execs, and product managers with experience from Stanford, Google, Meta, AWS, Bain & Co, Brown, and Berkeley. Our CEO and COO have both served as VPs of Sales at high-growth SaaS startups and understand our domain deeply. We are backed by some of the best investors in the world, including Y Combinator, SV Angel, CRV, and the founders of Tegus, BuildZoom, and Flexport.
Active Founders
Ross Geiger
Ross is a Co-Founder and President at Ciro. Before starting Ciro with two of his best friends from Brown University, he built the sales function as VP of Sales at a dental software company (YAPI) and implemented S&M technologies while an operating partner at a software investment firm (M33 Growth). Ross holds a BA in Economics and East Asian Studies from Brown University.
Richard Lee
Richard is CEO at Ciro. Previously, he was COO at BuildZoom (W13), one of the world's largest marketplaces for remodeling and construction, and a consultant at Bain & Company. He graduated with a degree in Applied Mathematics & Economics from Brown University, and currently is on leave from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
David Winer
David is CTO at Ciro. Before starting Ciro, he was a product manager for the Kotlin programming language at Google. Before that, he worked as a software engineer and product manager at various startups and as a management consultant at Bain & Co. He has a bachelor's degree in Applied Math from Brown University, a Master's in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Berkeley, and an MBA from Stanford.
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What’s the Problem?
If you run a business selling to an SMB vertical, you’ve probably found it impossible to find rich data on the prospects in your market… and that existing data solutions are rife with missing records, infrequent updates, and incorrect contact information.
What’s the Solution?
Ciro handles prospect list building so you don’t have to.
Our solution combines hundreds of vertical-specific web crawlers that run every day, plus a data ingestion engine that joins dozens of public and proprietary data sources. Through these tools we provide our customers with a complete prospect database, plus vertical-specific “signals” to focus their outreach.
Examples of these “signals” include:
- Changes to a prospect’s tech stack (e.g. a doctor’s office uninstalls ZocDoc)
- New company formation (e.g. a newly-registered construction license)
- Ownership changes (e.g. change-of-control updates to company reporting docs)