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Sterling

Building agent infrastructure to own business outcomes spanning weeks to months

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Competitors

AIMangoDeskShared: long horizon, throughYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIEpsilabShared: long horizon, applied, labYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIPolymathShared: long horizon, lab, agentYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIWebhoundShared: long horizon, agentYC S23San FranciscoStartup →AINexor AIShared: revenue agent, sales / gtm, accountspeedrun SR007San FranciscoStartup →
Companies closest to Sterling
Company
MangoDeskShared: long horizon, throughYC S25ActiveAI
EpsilabShared: long horizon, applied, labYC F26ActiveAI, Data
PolymathShared: long horizon, lab, agentYC W26ActiveAI
WebhoundShared: long horizon, agentYC S23ActiveAI, Data
Nexor AIShared: revenue agent, sales / gtm, accountspeedrun SR007Not statedAI

Adjacent

DataSikoiaShared: unified dataSeedcamp 2021Startup →OtherMeckaShared: data layerNeoStartup →AIBunkerhill HealthShared: long horizon, agentYC W19San FranciscoStartup →AIThe Company CompanyShared: lab building, appliedYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AISynthShared: long horizon, harness, agentYC F24San FranciscoStartup →
Companies next to Sterling
Company
SikoiaShared: unified dataSeedcamp 2021Not statedData
MeckaShared: data layerNeo Not statedOther
Bunkerhill HealthShared: long horizon, agentYC W19ActiveAI
The Company CompanyShared: lab building, appliedYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
SynthShared: long horizon, harness, agentYC F24ActiveAI, Devtools

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ClusterInfrastructure for GTM agentsNot statedAI
OthelloOthello builds AI models for B2B sales calls, deploying agents to give real-time prompts to sellers.Not statedAI
AliaAgents that coordinate teams towards company goalsNot statedAI
AlvenAlven is an AI employee that replaces the need for human property managersNot statedAI
AthenaThe AI-native law firm for M&A and commercial real estate.Not statedAI
Banbury RoadMulti-agent civilizations that deliver frontier capability at a fraction of the cost and memory of monolithic models.Not statedAI, Data

Programs

Programs Sterling went through
ProgramCohortSource
a16z speedrunSR007speedrun Page

About Sterling

Sterling builds long-horizon revenue agents on a unified data layer shaped by each company's own definitions and judgment. They customize their agent platform to own work end-to-end, carrying context through every decision point and re-planning as accounts change, from sourcing and renewals to ad targeting and product feedback. They're a team of three: Spandan (CEO) was an early researcher at DatologyAI, published at NeurIPS, and previously built anomaly detection at NVIDIA and Siri training data at Apple. Amit (COO; previously a16z enterprise) was early growth at Clay where he built observability to detect data decay. Bradley (CTO) was a Sutter Hill Engineering Fellow and ML engineer at Reve (acq. by OpenAI) and Sigma. In just three weeks, they've completed three company-wide deployments with design partners, each integrated across the customer's entire data stack rather than sold as a single seat. The first of them has already converted to a $72k ARR contract, the other two are expected to convert within a month, and they have $2M+ in pipeline.

Category
AI
Location
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Checked
13h ago

Tags: Sales / GTM, AI Agents

Changes seen

One-linerNov 2, 2026

Rewrote its one-liner; it read "Applied AI lab building the unified data layer and harness for long-horizon revenue agents"

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HeadquartersOct 5, 2026

Moved its headquarters from New York, United States of America to San Francisco, California, United States of America.

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One-linerOct 5, 2026

Rewrote its one-liner; it read "We build long-horizon revenue agents for GTM teams, on a unified data layer built for each..."

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Sterling: questions

Which accelerators did Sterling go through?

Sterling is listed by a16z speedrun (SR007).

Where is Sterling based?

Sterling lists San Francisco, California, United States of America as its location on a16z speedrun's page.