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Gong Debuts “Reveal: The Revenue Intelligence Podcast”

Learn How Leaders from Netflix, Hubspot and Seismic Win with Revenue Intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO – November 13, 2019 – Gong, the leading revenue intelligence platform leveraging artificial intelligence to go beyond traditional CRM and transform revenue teams, today announced the launch of “Reveal: The Revenue Intelligence Podcast.” The podcast continues Gong’s emergence as the leader in revenue intelligence, by providing a new form of content to educate […]

Fuze Announces Gong AI Integration to Deliver Insights from Sales Calls

Machine learning-based solution allows Fuze customers to transcribes calls and analyzes data, enabling better sales conversations to generate more revenue Fuze, the leading cloud communications platform provider for the modern global enterprise, today announced a new integration with Gong, an AI-driven revenue intelligence platform for revenue teams. Fuze’s application programming interface (API) enables customers to apply […]

Gong Puts Growth Into Hyperdrive, Announces Three New C-Suite Appointments

Newly Announced CFO, CPO and CMO Strengthen Corporate Leadership and Momentum

SAN FRANCISCO – October 15, 2019 – Gong, the leading revenue intelligence platform which captures and understands every customer interaction and delivers insights for revenue teams, today announced three additions to its C-suite to help take the company to the next level. Sandi Kochhar and Tim Riitters joined the company as Chief People Officer and Chief […]

Gong Charts New Future for Sales Leaders, Launches Revenue Intelligence

AI-based approach increases revenue team effectiveness by transforming interactions into insights SAN FRANCISCO – October 8, 2019 – Gong, the leading sales-enablement platform leveraging artificial intelligence to go beyond traditional CRM and transform revenue teams, today called on sales and revenue leaders to chart a new path towards a better customer reality at #celebrate, the inaugural […]

Udi Ledergor, Gong’s VP of Marketing, wins SaaS Leadership Award

Winners were selected based on their track record of achieving goals, leadership skills, and ability to attract and retain talent.

Appealie honors the best products and leaders in SaaS. Gong’s VP of Marketing Udi Ledergor won an individual leadership award, based on peer nominations. Read more here.

Gong Wins 2019 Emerging AI Pioneer Award

Gong won the Judge’s Award after careful deliberation.

Last week at the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Jose, a select group of innovators participated in the Emerging AI Pioneers Showcase. Entrepreneurs and researchers discussed the latest work in cutting edge areas like AutoML, data programming, synthetic data generation, and more. As part of the event, participating startups vied for a couple of awards. The […]

Why “Tell Them Something They Don’t Know” Is Bad Advice in B2B Sales

Choosing the wrong approach can have negative consequences. This is supported by data by Gong.io, which recorded and analyzed sales meetings from thousands of deals made on web conferencing platforms

At meetings with an SVP-level buyer or higher, the data indicate a strong negative correlation between asking discovery questions and closing deals. Once you’ve asked a few questions, every additional question with a busy senior buyer decreases the odds of success. On average, successful meetings here involved about 4 questions while unsuccessful meetings averaged 8. For meetings […]

Gong.io Raises $40 Million to Transform Sales with AI

Companies including LinkedIn, GE, ZipRecruiter, and Drift empower their teams and win deals with Gong’s Conversation Intelligence technology

SAN FRANCISCO and TEL AVIV, Israel– February 7, 2019– Gong.io, the #1 rated Conversation Intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence to go beyond CRM and transform sales teams, today announced it has raised $40 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $68 million. The latest round was led by global investment […]

Gong.io’s Whisper Shows Sales Leaders what Separates Their Best Reps from the Rest

The “Holy Grail” of sales now available to sales teams worldwide

SAN FRANCISCO, California and TEL AVIV, Israel, December 6, 2018 – Gong.io, the #1 rated Conversation Intelligence platform for sales teams, has announced the release of its latest product, Whisper™, which helps under-performing sales reps get on the same level as the superstars on their team. Whisper™ does this by breaking down sales teams into […]

Gong.io Named One of the 10 Most Promising Start-Ups

“We’re the fly on the wall that listens and helps navigate the call”

The startup, based in Herzliya and San Francisco, has developed software for recording, transcribing, and analyzing calls. Among other things, it examines the number of questions that the representative asks, the division of time between the representative and the customer (the ideal division is 54% for the customer, 46% for the representative), and the pause before the sales representative asks or answers a question (the right length of time is one second). It resembles soccer or basketball statistics, Gong.io CEO Amit Bendov’s source of inspiration.

Gong.io Named One of 2019 Top 15 Sales Enablement Vendors by Selling Power

Selling Power is pleased to announce it has released its list of the 2019 Top 15 Sales Enablement Vendors: http://bit.ly/2Ofbe0I. This list was published in the November 2018 issue of Selling Power magazine.

Gong wins the AI Innovation Showcase at VB Summit

The esteemed panel at this year’s VB Summit chose Gong.io as winner of the AI Innovation Showcase, with its claim of being the first conversation intelligence platform to analyze end-to-end customer communications

Gong.io Named A Rising Star On Forbes’ Cloud 100 List

Rising Stars represent young, high-growth and category-leading cloud companies

SAN FRANCISCO (September 13, 2018) – Gong.io, the leading conversation intelligence platform helping sales teams have better sales conversions, has been named one of the 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2018 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in collaboration […]

Gong.io Names Ryan Longfield Chief Revenue Officer

Former LinkedIn Sales Executive to Scale Gong’s Hyper-Growth

[San Francisco, CA, August 1, 2018] Conversation Intelligence leader, Gong.io, announced today that it has named former LinkedIn Sales Executive, Ryan Longfield, Chief Revenue Officer. Longfield will help drive Gong’s rapid growth. Gong.io helps salespeople have better conversations by using AI and machine learning to pinpoint what the top performers are saying and doing differently. […]