Othello uses AI to tell salespeople what to say during calls. See the pitch deck that helped it raise $8 million.

Othello, cofounded by Jared Zelman and Raphael Assor, just raised an $8 million seed funding round. Othello Othello gives salespeople real-time, AI-powered recommendations to improve their sales calls. It uses reinforcement learning to coach reps in pitches modeled on their company's top performers. Othello just raised $8 million in a round led by A16z Speedrun and Owl Capital. Jared Zelman has been honing his sales pitch since college, when he spent his spare time cold-emailing billionaires and prominent investors , hoping to forge a connection. His extracurricular activities helped lay the groundwork for his current startup, Othello, a platform that uses AI to give salespeople real-time coaching tips to improve their sales calls. Othello exclusively told CMO Insider on Wednesday that it had raised an $8 million seed funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz 's startup accelerator A16z Speedrun, and Owl Capital.