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Fin (fka Intercom)

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Formerly Intercom, Fin is the Customer Agent company delivering perfect customer experiences.

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2011AI
Valuation $2.5–5B Last recorded · Jun/2026
Revenue $100–500M Latest reported FY
Headcount 1–2k Current team size
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At a glance

Founded
2011
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Sector
AI
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Market map

Intercom rebuilt itself around Fin, its AI agent — putting it at the centre of the AI customer-service race against a wave of AI-native challengers and the incumbent suites.

AI customer serviceCustomer supportAI agentsCRMSaaS
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Sierra logo Sierra Bret Taylor's AI agent platform
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Zendesk logo Zendesk Incumbent support suite + AI
Ada logo Ada AI-first support automation
Gorgias logo Gorgias Support built for e-commerce
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Investors

27 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed13 investors entered at this stage

Series A2 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later12 investors entered at this stage

Ownership

Share of equity by holder

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (June 2026). Percentages are indicative.

18% Founders

“Other / undisclosed” is the 22% not attributed to a named shareholder. See the full cap table on Dealroom →

Investor returns

Money in and money out by financing cohort

Estimated gross proceeds at the Reported $3.6B Salesforce exit, grouped by financing cohort. Money in is each cohort’s primary capital; money out applies its implied ownership to the $3.6B price; MOIC is money out ÷ money in.

Cohort Round Money in Est. money out MOIC
Founders, team & option poolCommon + option pool
Common / ESOP
—
$1.19B
—
Seed investors500 Global, Freestyle, Digital Garage, angels
Seed · 2012
$1.8M
$540M
309×
Series A cohortFreestyle, Social Capital, Sacks
Series A · 2013
$6M
$436M
73×
Series B cohortBessemer, Social Capital
Series B · 2014
$23M
$518M
23×
Series C cohortBessemer, ICONIQ, Social
Series C · 2015
$35M
$277M
7.9×
Series C extensionIndex, ICONIQ, Bessemer, Social
Series C · 2016
$50M
$284M
5.7×
Series D cohortKleiner Perkins, GV, Bessemer
Series D · 2018
$125M
$346M
2.8×

Method: New ownership ≈ primary capital / post-money; later rounds dilute prior cohorts; money out = ownership × $3.6B. Seed absorbs residual early/common holders. Source: Funding rounds, valuation estimates and shareholder structure; Dealroom analysis. Roughly right, not a legal cap table or realised fund DPI. See the full cap table on Dealroom →

Employees mapped 1,160 incl. 42 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 27 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months
Top talent identified 14 mapped
  • EM Eoghan McCabe Founder, Chairman & CEO · Repeat founder — earlier sold Exceptional to Rackspace
  • DT Des Traynor Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer · Product, brand & Intercom's design voice
  • CL Ciaran Lee Co-founder & CTO · Led engineering since 2011
  • Name hidden — book a demo Head of Fin / AI · Applied LLMs for support
  • Name hidden — book a demo ML Research Lead · Retrieval & answer grounding
  • Name hidden — book a demo VP Engineering · Platform & scale
  • Name hidden — book a demo Head of Product · Fin & the Inbox
  • Name hidden — book a demo VP Sales · Enterprise GTM
See all 14 mapped people — named, with seniority & tenure

Roles shown are indicative of the profiled team; the named individuals, seniority and tenure live on the platform.

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
40 countries with
team presence
🇮🇪 Ireland39.3%
🇺🇸 United States34.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom15.1%
🇦🇺 Australia3.3%
🇫🇷 France1.2%
Top 5 of 40 shown
Web traffic by country
640K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States40.8%
🇮🇳 India10.4%
🏳️ Korea4.4%
🏳️ Republic of4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Inventions

Proprietary systems and patents
$0.99 per resolved customer query vs ~$9 loaded cost for a human-handled ticket
Core product

Fin AI Agent

An AI support agent that resolves customer questions end-to-end across chat, email and phone — the product the whole company rebranded around.

Business model

Outcome-based pricing

Fin charges $0.99 per successful resolution, not per seat — realigning the vendor's incentive with the customer's outcome.

Platform

Intercom Messenger + Inbox

The omnichannel support workspace and in-product messenger Fin plugs into — the install base that made AI distribution instant.

Proprietary stack

Fin AI Engine

A multi-model engine that routes across LLMs, grounds answers in each customer's own content, and is tuned for resolution quality over chat volume.

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$320k

10 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

Explore the patent portfolioPatent records, technology areas and peer comparisonsBook a demo

Intercom holds a modest granted-patent portfolio; its larger moat is the install base and the Fin resolution engine. Dealroom tracks the full IP value and filing activity on the platform.

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How Fin re-accelerated Intercom

Intercom matured as a seat-based SaaS business — then Fin, its AI agent, re-accelerated revenue and carried the company to a $3.6B Salesforce exit.

$200M ARR 2021
$282M ARR 2023
$382M ARR 2025
$400M ARR 2026
$3.6B Salesforce exit ≈ 9× revenue · 2026
$110M Fin ARR Intercom's AI agent · from ~$0 in 2023
$0.99 Cost per resolution vs ~$9 for a human-handled ticket
2011 Founded Dublin · four co-founders
Hiring momentum net new roles · last 90 days
Product usage resolutions per month
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Market sentiment

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Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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