{"id":90304,"title":"Lyra: The AI-Native Zoom For Revenue Teams","tagline":"Sales hasn't changed in decades but buyer expectations have. We're fixing it.","body":"Hey everyone 👋— we’re [Courtne](https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtnemarland/) and [Henry](https://www.linkedin.com/in/taeksoo-kwon/) and we’re building [Lyra](https://lyra.so/).\n\nhttps://youtu.be/KGiAZO7D60A\n\n# **❌ The Problem** \n\nEvery revenue team — whether at SMBs or enterprises knows these pains:\n\n* Spending hours manually personalizing docs and followup emails\n* Zero visibility into how engaged buyers are and what decision makers actually think\n* Champions that drag their feet on or just do a poor job at conveying your solution\n* Long sales cycles with long back and forth email threads\n* Trying to be competitive with a buying experience that sucks\n* Long ramp up periods spent studying content only to miss out on the latest material that customers actually care about\n\n**We believe sales is inherently human — AEs aren’t going anywhere, we 100x their efficiency and eliminate anything that isn’t talking to customers.**\n\n# **✅ Why Lyra Is Winning** \n\n**See our platform in action:**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Gb0Gfi5Q-z0\n\nAlready, over 150 hours of sales calls are hosted on our platform each week. Metrics don’t lie - buyers rave about their experience, close rates go up and sales cycle lengths fall more than 34%. \n\nWe built our own meeting infrastructure with an AI agent at its core to deliver personalization at scale and a sales copilot in the room 24/7.  \n\n# **👋 The Team**\n\n**Courtne (CEO):** Published his first app at 13, has taken over 1,000 hours of sales calls and closed $50M in enterprise pipeline. BSc Applied Mathematics and Economics. \n\n**Henry (CTO)** HackMIT winner, early engineer at a few YC companies and brings AI technical expertise to the team. CS at UC Irvine. \n\n# **🚀 Run Your Next Sales Call On Lyra**\n\nWe're live with paying customers and seeking partners serious about revenue growth.\n\nIf you're interested in seeing what Lyra can do for your quota this month, we’d love to talk.\n\nContact us at [courtne@lyra.so](mailto:courtne@lyra.so)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=90304\u0026key=user_uploads/1617789/ed782300-fdce-4aef-9ff6-8cee71faa15f)\n\n","slug":"NUW-lyra-the-ai-native-zoom-for-revenue-teams","created_at":"2025-05-12T19:41:01.266Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T21:55:21.435Z","total_vote_count":100,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NUW-lyra-the-ai-native-zoom-for-revenue-teams","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=90304\u0026key=user_uploads/1617789/ed782300-fdce-4aef-9ff6-8cee71faa15f","company":{"id":30487,"name":"Lyra","slug":"lyrahq","url":"https://lyra.so/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a65f33dd3f6dc3e215ba91c4ce53cbf6671a44ca.png","batch":"Spring 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["B2B","Customer Success","Sales","Telecommunications","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30487"}}