Floqer plans to open-source the technology behind its autonomous customer knowledge database, a move the startup says is aimed at customers who want more control over their data. The company is pitching Wednesday on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and it told TechCrunch it is targeting early 2027 for the release, pending security reviews.
The company says it has surpassed $1.2 million in annual recurring revenue and that its overall revenue has grown roughly tenfold over the past year. Floqer was founded in 2024 by Shivam Mahajan, the chief executive, and Zaaheda Islam, who met at university. Mahajan previously worked as a software engineer at Kyndryl, and Islam was a senior data scientist at Axis Capital.
The company's first product looked nothing like its current one. “We started with a Chrome extension, which is called ‘Super Chat,’” Mahajan told TechCrunch in an interview. “Anybody can go and log in with their ChatGPT account and then understand [information] and take notes.”
The founders soon noticed that enterprise companies were using the extension to clean up data in their customer relationship management systems. Those conversations revealed that keeping CRM data clean was mostly manual work, with few established processes for keeping customer records current.
“When we spoke with them, they told us that it’s super manual for them to clean their CRM data, and there were no established processes around that,” Mahajan said. “So that was insightful for us, and then we pivoted from there to build Floqer.”
The problem Floqer is trying to solve will be familiar to anyone who has worked in sales or revenue operations. Finding potential customers can take hours of searching Google, LinkedIn, company websites and job boards to find businesses that fit a profile. After that, reps have to track down the right people and their contact details.
Floqer aims to automate much of that research. Users describe what they are looking for, and the company's AI agents search across different sources to build lists of relevant companies and contacts. The system can also enrich accounts, adding detail about the companies a sales team is targeting, by drawing on more than 100 third-party data sources.
When it needs a verified email address or phone number, Floqer uses what it calls a “waterfall” approach, checking one data provider after another until it finds usable information. The system also monitors the web continuously. 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 its technology as a fleet of AI agents that continuously research companies, people and customer interactions. According to the company, customers have reported cutting prospecting time by as much as 70%.
So far, access to the database has been limited. “Our autonomous customer knowledge database is only available to a limited audience, mostly due to how much demand our team can actually serve properly,” Mahajan said. “But open-sourcing it will help us fix that.”
The decision is partly a response to customer demand. Mahajan said some companies want to host their own data rather than keep it inside a vendor’s proprietary platform. 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,” Mahajan said.
Floqer is conducting security reviews before any public release. The database can contain sensitive customer information, and large companies already use the product.
Floqer has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding. Investors include Perplexity’s F7 Fund, N49P, Tidal Venture Partners and Perplexity co-founder Denis Yarats. The company says it now has eight employees.
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