Floqer to open-source autonomous customer knowledge database, reports $1.2M ARR

Floqer told TechCrunch ahead of the presentation that it aims to release the open-source version in early 2027, pending security reviews. The database is designed to continuously collect, organize and update the information that sales and marketing teams use to understand customers. The company also said its overall revenue has grown roughly tenfold over the past year.

The startup was founded in 2024 by Shivam Mahajan, its CEO, and Zaaheda Islam, who met at university. Before founding Floqer, Mahajan worked as a software engineer at Kyndryl, and Islam was a senior data scientist at Axis Capital.

Floqer’s first product was not the database it sells today. Mahajan told TechCrunch in an interview earlier this month that the company started with a Chrome extension called Super Chat. “Anybody can go and log in with their ChatGPT account and then understand [information] and take notes,” he said.

The founders later noticed that enterprise companies were using the extension to clean data in their customer relationship management systems. Conversations with those companies showed that keeping CRM data clean was mostly manual work, with few established processes for keeping customer records up to date. Mahajan said the companies told Floqer that cleaning CRM data was “super manual” for them and that no established processes existed around it. That insight led the startup to pivot and build Floqer.

Floqer is trying to address a familiar problem in sales and revenue operations. Finding potential customers can take hours of searching Google, LinkedIn, company websites, job boards and other sources to identify companies that fit a particular profile, then tracking down the right people and their contact information. Floqer aims to automate much of that research. Users can describe what they are looking for, and its AI agents search across different sources to build lists of relevant companies and contacts.

The company says its system can enrich accounts, or add detail about the companies a sales team is targeting, using more than 100 third-party data sources. When it needs a verified email address or phone number, Floqer uses a “waterfall” approach, checking one data provider after another until it finds usable information. The system also continuously monitors the web for changes. If a prospect changes jobs, gets promoted or works at a company that raises new funding, those updates can be reflected in the user’s customer records.

Floqer describes the technology as a fleet of AI agents that continuously research companies, people and customer interactions so team members do not have to perform that work manually. According to the company, customers have reported cutting prospecting time by as much as 70%.

Mahajan said the autonomous customer knowledge database is currently available only to a limited audience, largely because of how much demand the team can serve properly. “But open-sourcing it will help us fix that,” he told TechCrunch. The decision comes partly in response to customer demand. Mahajan said some companies want to host their own data rather than keep it inside a vendor’s proprietary platform, while others want to modify the technology or build on top of it. “Our mission is to really enable every team to build their central source of growth,” he said.

Before releasing the database publicly, Floqer is conducting security reviews because the database can contain sensitive customer information and large companies already use it. The startup has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding, with participation from investors including Perplexity’s F7 Fund, N49P, Tidal Venture Partners and Perplexity co-founder Denis Yarats. Floqer says it now has eight employees and more than 1,000 customers, including Perplexity, Wise and AngelList.

Editor's Summary

Floqer plans to open-source its autonomous customer knowledge database in early 2027, pending security reviews, and says it has surpassed $1.2 million in annual recurring revenue. The company is presenting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and reports more than 1,000 customers, including Perplexity, Wise and AngelList. Its open-source plan responds to customer interest in self-hosting and modifying the technology.