Zach Hamed is a design-focused engineer who enjoys designing, building, and selling software.

Clay is a beautiful personal CRM, contact manager, and rolodex for people across industries who want to be more thoughtful with the people they know.

Clay manages hundreds of millions of relationships for a wide range of professionals across industries — Fortune 500 CEOs, doctors, real estate agents, MBAs, non-profits, and everyone in between.

In 2025, Clay was acquired by Automattic, the company behind WordPress and apps like Pocket Casts, Day One, Beeper, and others used by millions.

Previously, we raised $8 million from top-tier investors like Forerunner Ventures (early investors in Glossier, Warby Parker, and Chime), General Catalyst (early investors in Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap), and forward-thinking executives from a diverse set of companies and organizations including Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Airtable, the NFL, the Obama White House, Hollywood, and more.

Clay won Best Work & Productivity App, awarded by both judges and the People’s Choice, in the 26th Annual Webby Awards Internet Celebration. We were also featured in Apple’s 2024 WWDC keynote, named as a new and noteworthy Productivity app, and one of the best CRMs in the App Store.

Before Clay, I helped build the product team for Goldman Sachs’ web platform Marquee, which caters to institutional clients.

In three years, we scaled from a one-pizza team to a ten-pizza team, increasing trades through our web and API offerings to billions of dollars.

Marquee is now one of the most sophisticated fintech platforms in institutional finance, allowing Goldman’s biggest clients to read research reports, analyze their portfolios, understand their risk, and execute trades.

The team is now a startup within Goldman Sachs, with product, design, and engineering dedicated to transforming the future of institutional finance. Watch our CIO-turned-CFO Marty Chavez discuss what we built.