San Francisco, November 11, 2025 — Leads & Copy — EVE, which describes itself as the first Inbox Revenue Engine for B2B small businesses, announced today that it has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding. The funding round was led by Firsthand.VC, with participation from a16z’s Scout Fund, Acquisition.com Ventures, Geek Ventures, Founders Future, Punch Capital, Silicon Gardens, and prominent angels, including co-founders of Slack and Hugging Face, and the former CEO of Oura.
The company said the funding will be used to accelerate product development and support EVE’s rollout to hundreds of small businesses already on its waitlist, which it described as a first step toward scaling to thousands in the coming months.
EVE connects directly to email and calendar to track and manage real-time revenue activity, automatically identifying new opportunities, surfacing forgotten leads, and drafting context-aware follow-ups. The company said that by eliminating the need for manual CRM updates or workflow changes, EVE helps small businesses recover 20–30% of potential revenue lost in day-to-day communication gaps.
Vadim Rogovskiy, CEO and co-founder of EVE, said CRMs were built for people who have time for managing them, but small businesses don’t have time for all of this, starting with manual data entry. He added that 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.
According to the company, EVE adds autonomous execution and visibility, learning from every connected inbox to build a single live dashboard of all revenue activity across the company, making it easy to see what’s moving, what’s stalled, and what’s being missed. While in stealth, over 500 small businesses joined EVE’s waitlist, with some of them already turning their inboxes into live revenue dashboards.
Josh Hess, VP of Business Development at Leadature, one of EVE’s first customers, said that in just three months, they closed 25% more deals with the same team and no workflow changes. He added that he didn’t realize how much revenue was buried in their inbox until EVE started identifying it and helping them to close it.
Rogovskiy said the idea for EVE emerged after hundreds of interviews with SMB owners, revealing that up to 80% of their work happens over email, yet most of that intelligence never makes it into CRMs or project management tools. Before founding EVE, Rogovskiy was building an AI-driven roll-up of small businesses, acquiring and modernizing operations with AI agents. “That journey exposed how much value was being lost inside inboxes,” said Rogovskiy.
Simon Chan, General Partner at Firsthand.VC, and a four-time founder whose own company was acquired by Salesforce, said he backs people first, and Vadim has shown exceptional clarity in navigating this market. He added that having helped build Salesforce’s Einstein platform, he can say EVE is reimagining CRM from the ground up, bringing automation and intelligence to the businesses that need it most.
EVE is built for industries where email volume directly equals revenue potential, including consulting, construction, distribution, recruiting, brokerage, and event management. The platform integrates seamlessly with Gmail and Outlook, requires no setup or training, and starts delivering insights within minutes. Future releases will expand into multi-channel lead tracking, upsell detection, and churn prediction, bringing small businesses a step closer to a fully autonomous revenue engine.
EVE helps companies unlock 20–30% of hidden revenue without changing how they work. Co-founded by Vadim Rogovskiy, serial entrepreneur and founding partner at Rebel Capital, EVE is building the default revenue operating system for the next generation of SMBs.
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Source: EVE
