Silicon Valley startup FullyRamped has raised $2.3M to upskill sales representatives with artificial intelligence (AI) role-play using Practice Prospects.

The pre-seed funding round was led by BoxGroup, MaC Venture Capital, and NOMO Ventures. Additional investment came through the scout funds of Greylock and Sequoia. This early-stage funding will be used to expand the team, enhance the product, and accelerate the company’s go-to-market strategy.

Designed for sales representatives and their managers, FullyRamped’s platform provides AI-powered “Practice Prospects”—custom personas that sales reps can engage with to refine their skills in an environment that mimics the progression of a real sales call. Notably, the platform uses real-time voice AI to offer natural conversations with minimal latency, providing companies with a safe, controlled manner to adopt AI in their sales training processes. This allows representatives to practice their pitch and objection handling with a variety of personas without burning real leads. Essentially, it offers infinite opportunities without the constraints of manager or teammate availability. According to the company, this dramatically streamlines the upskilling process, ensuring sales reps are battle-ready when they join real calls with real stakes.

FullyRamped was founded by Aaron Marks, a Stanford engineer specializing in natural language processing, and the concept began as a prototype that he built that enabled sales reps to call live phone numbers and practice their phone skills on-demand in a simulated cold call environment. This early test laid the foundation for what would become FullyRamped’s comprehensive AI-powered training platform.

“Our goal is to help companies develop their human capital,” said Marks. “We believe that AI is a tool that will be used by humans, not replace them. People still prefer talking to people, especially in high-stakes B2B sales conversations.”

While FullyRamped is currently focused on tech sales, the company’s vision extends to serving all external-facing roles. “When you build software, you would never test in production,” Marks explained. “So, why don’t we give everyone with a ‘people-job’ a staging environment too?”

As FullyRamped continues to grow, it is set to give customer-facing employees the sandbox they need to practice ahead of high-stakes conversations—without the threat of being replaced.

“FullyRamped has identified a clear market need and built a solution with the potential to redefine the way we do business,” commented David Tisch, managing partner at BoxGroup. “We’re excited by Aaron and his vision for the future.”

Adrian Fenty, founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital concluded: “FullyRamped is poised to be one of the breakthrough voice-first agentic platforms. Aaron’s vision for AI role play has great potential for augmenting, not replacing, a large share of human work.”