Orum

Orum, founded in 2018, builds an AI-powered Live Conversation Platform for outbound sales. The software automates the manual parts of sales calling: it detects more than 20 languages, distinguishes between human answers and voicemail, and connects a call in under half a second so that a sales representative is placed directly into a live conversation with a prospect. The company reports that its platform helps sales teams connect five times faster than conventional dialling.

The underlying technology draws on artificial intelligence, speech recognition, natural language processing and real-time voice automation. Orum's models are trained on more than one billion real sales calls. Thousands of sales development representative (SDR) teams worldwide use the product, and the company says customers book millions of dollars in new pipeline each month through it. Orum operates in the B2B software and sales technology sectors.

Orum has been fully remote since it was founded and serves customers worldwide. The company is founder-led, with Jason Dorfman as chief executive and co-founder. Its stated mission is to make sales more human by removing frustrating manual processes - an aim rooted in Dorfman's experience building an inside sales team at Rubrik.