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Clari and Salesloft complete merger and name Steve Cox CEO

Clari and Salesloft closed their merger, with former Employ CEO Steve Cox leading the combined company. It plans to double R&D spending on what it calls a Predictive Revenue System.

Image: Salesloft (incl. Clari) press materials, from the announcement

On December 3, 2025, Clari and Salesloft announced that they had completed their merger and appointed Steve Cox as chief executive of the combined company. Cox most recently served as CEO of Employ and earlier held executive roles at Community Brands, Vertafore, Chess and TSG. The company says the combination ingests more than 10 billion revenue interactions and 1 trillion data signals, which it describes as the foundation for what it calls a Predictive Revenue System. Clari + Salesloft says it is doubling research and development investment. The release lists recent AI agents and features from both companies.

The details

  • Combined dataset cited: more than 10 billion revenue interactions and 1 trillion data signals.
  • The company says it is doubling R&D investment.
  • Salesloft products named: Account Research Agent, Person Research Agent and Ask Salesloft Agent.
  • Clari products named: Revenue Cadences, an AI Action Hub for Revenue Strategy and agent capabilities for deal health monitoring and risk detection.
  • Salesloft says it serves more than 4,000 organizations, including Adobe, 3M, IBM and Zoom.
  • The release cites a company statistic that 67% of revenue leaders do not trust the data AI relies on.

Context

This is the earliest Clari + Salesloft story in our coverage. One week later, on December 10, 2025, the company named Kylie Fuentes CPO and Laurie Ehrbar CMO. Our 2026 coverage includes a new CFO (April 2), Clari Forecast linked to Salesloft tasks with an MCP server (April 14), a new CRO and CTO (May 13), a unified brand that kept the Clari Forecast name (September 2) and an agentic roadmap including Agentic Forecasting (September 24).

Not disclosed

  • Deal terms and valuation
  • Ownership structure and investors
  • Product integration timeline
  • Changes to pricing or packaging for existing customers
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Newsroom from Salesloft (incl. Clari), published Dec 3, 2025
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