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Dolead
Assisting businesses in achieving scalable and sustainable growth by providing exclusive, sales-ready leads at a fixed cost per lead directly into any CRM
About Dolead
Dolead operates as a technology-driven partner for customer acquisition, focusing on generating sales-ready leads for businesses across various sectors. Founded in 2007 by Arthur Saint-Père and Guillaume Heintz, the company has established offices in Paris, France, and Boston, USA. Arthur Saint-Père, the CEO, has a background that includes roles at Capital One and as a professor at HEC Paris and Ecole Polytechnique, complemented by an executive program at Harvard Business School.
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The firm's core business revolves around a performance-based model, where clients are charged on a fixed cost-per-lead (CPL) basis. This approach differentiates Dolead from traditional agencies or SaaS platforms by aligning its revenue directly with the delivery of qualified prospects. The business model encompasses several offerings: a primary performance-based service, an "Agency" model managing clients' advertising spend for a percentage fee, and a "Creative as a Service" for producing social media assets. Dolead serves a diverse client base in industries such as home improvement, healthcare, education, insurance, and telecommunications.
Dolead's service is powered by proprietary AI technology developed with a reported €30 million investment. This technology automates and optimizes paid marketing campaigns across platforms like Google and social media. It utilizes semantic algorithms and predictive lead scoring to identify users with high purchase intent, analyzing hundreds of data points to forecast which leads are most likely to convert. The platform builds optimized user journey funnels, including conversion-focused landing pages and forms, and integrates directly into any client CRM for real-time lead delivery. This system is designed to create a continuous learning loop, where data from each conversion refines future targeting and ad performance.
The company has secured significant funding to fuel its growth, including a $15 million Series A round in July 2018, led by Ring Capital, Siparex, and XAnge. This added to previous funding rounds, bringing its total to over $20 million. This capital has supported Dolead's research and development and its expansion into European and US markets.
At a glance
- Status
- Acquired
- Founded
- 2007
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Employees
- 112
- Open positions
- 7
- Dealroom signal
- 78.5/100
- Industry
- Marketing
- Sub-industry
- Adtech, CRM & Sales
- Sector
- Marketing, Adtech, Advertising, Lead Generation, Core AI, Pay Per Result, AI Applications, Tech in Fab
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACQUISITION✓Exit | Jun 2023 | $0 | — | JVWEB | ↗ |
| SERIES B✓Equity / VC | Jul 2018 | $15M | $60M | XAnge · Ring Capital | ↗ |
Financials
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Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Dolead is 13K monthly website visits, down 18.8% over the last three months. Dolead's team grew 14.3% over the past year.
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Investors
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Seed3 investors entered at this stage
Adverline
Alitis
Phitrust Partenaires
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
- FIFinarea
XAnge
Ring Capital
Other known investors2 additional known investors
JVWEB
Siparex
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