Daphne Funston is playing a key product leadership role in Day AI’s “CRMx” movement—a mission to replace legacy systems of record with AI-native systems of context. Following the company’s recent $20M Series A led by Sequoia Capital, Daphne has been instrumental in the launch of a platform that effectively ends the era of manual data entry.

Daphne’s leadership at Day AI focuses on the “shift from accounting for the past to shaping the future.” Under her product direction, the platform automates the ingestion of every customer signal—objections, stakeholder shifts, and relationship nuances—allowing leaders to ask complex questions that unlock deep business insights. By turning fragmented data into a conversational partner, she is leading the next great shift in enterprise software, proving that the most powerful CRM is the one you simply talk to.

Her impact at Day AI is the culmination of a decade spent at the forefront of Boston’s most influential product organizations. This includes a pivotal tenure at Drift, where she rose to Senior Group Product Manager during its hyper-growth phase, and then went on to serve as VP of Product at Thrive Global and Dutchie. Her ability to navigate high-scale communication platforms makes her a definitive architect of the AI-native workspace.