Sector Snapshot: Sales, Marketing, and CX Funding Shifts Heavily Toward Agentic AI

Crunchbase Sector Snapshot: Sales, Marketing, and CX Funding Shifts Heavily Toward Agentic AI

May 13, 2026

We are not back to boom times. Venture funding for sales, marketing, and CRM categories hit a cyclical peak in 2021 and 2022, but investment has slowed considerably since. Annual funding has hovered around the $8 billion mark over the past three years, according to a recent report from…

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