EVE, the first "Inbox Revenue Engine" built for B2B small businesses, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding. The company is built to solve a problem in a fast-growing market. According to a report from Custom Market Insights, the global Revenue Intelligence market is valued at over $3.8 billion in 2024 and is expected to grow significantly.
The funding round was led by Firsthand.VC, with participation from a16z's Scout Fund, Acquisition.com Ventures, Geek Ventures, Founders Future, Punch Capital, and Silicon Gardens. Notable angel investors include co-founders of Slack and Hugging Face, along with the former CEO of Oura.
The new funds will be used to accelerate product development and support EVE's rollout to the hundreds of small businesses already on its waitlist, with plans to scale to thousands of users in the coming months.
For most small businesses, up to 80% of their work happens over email. But what happens to all that information? The majority of it never makes it into CRMs or project management tools.
Deals stall. Leads disappear. Follow-ups get forgotten.
The result? Companies lose 20-30% of their potential revenue simply because it's buried in day-to-day communications.
EVE acts as an always-on revenue engine that connects directly to email and calendar. It tracks and manages real-time revenue activity, automatically identifying new opportunities, surfacing forgotten leads, and drafting context-aware follow-ups. No manual CRM updates. No workflow changes. Just recovered revenue.
"CRMs were built for people who have time for managing them. Small businesses don't have time for all of this, starting with manual data entry," said Vadim Rogovskiy, CEO and co-founder of EVE. "EVE lives inside email and calendar and does the work for you autonomously, turning everyday conversations into a single live revenue machine where nothing gets lost."
Traditional revenue tools tell teams what to do. EVE helps them do it. The platform learns from every connected inbox to build a single live dashboard of all revenue activity. Teams can instantly see what's moving, what's stalled, and what's being missed.
While in stealth mode, over 500 small businesses joined EVE's waitlist. Some early customers are already seeing measurable results.
"I didn't realize how much revenue was buried in our inbox until EVE started identifying it and helping us to close it," said Josh Hess, VP of Business Development at Leadature, one of EVE's first customers. "In just three months, we closed 25% more deals with the same team and no workflow changes."
EVE is built for industries where email volume directly equals revenue potential. That includes consulting, construction, distribution, recruiting, brokerage, and event management. The platform integrates with Gmail and Outlook, requires no setup, and starts delivering insights within minutes.
The investor group brings deep experience in AI and CRM.
"I back people first, and Vadim has shown exceptional clarity in navigating this market," said Simon Chan, General Partner at Firsthand.VC. Chan is a four-time founder whose own company, PredictionIO, was acquired by Salesforce. "Having helped build Salesforce's Einstein platform, I can say EVE is reimagining CRM from the ground up – bringing automation and intelligence to the businesses that need it most."
Future releases will expand into multi-channel lead tracking, upsell detection, and churn prediction. The goal is to bring small businesses a step closer to a fully autonomous revenue engine.
