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About us
Let Openmart handle lead discovery, contact enrichment, and outreach prep — while your team focuses on closing.
Openmart began with a simple problem: finding the right local retailers.
In 2020, while still a product engineer at Pinterest, our co-founder Kathryn Wu launched a milk-tea side hustle called OhTea. She quickly discovered that locating every potential stockist—and, more importantly, the right point of contact—was far harder than brewing great tea. The search meant stitching together data from maps, review sites, business filings and a half-dozen SaaS tools. The market was so fragmented that OhTea never reached product-market fit, but the pain point was clear.
Kathryn decided to solve it once and for all. She teamed up with Richard He, a fellow ex-Pinterest engineer and long-time friend (we first bonded over our dogs—a golden retriever and a lab). Together we founded Openmart at the end of 2023.
Think of Openmart as the
AI-powered alternative to ZoomInfo — purpose-built for local and SMB markets.
In 2020, while still a product engineer at Pinterest, our co-founder Kathryn Wu launched a milk-tea side hustle called OhTea. She quickly discovered that locating every potential stockist—and, more importantly, the right point of contact—was far harder than brewing great tea. The search meant stitching together data from maps, review sites, business filings and a half-dozen SaaS tools. The market was so fragmented that OhTea never reached product-market fit, but the pain point was clear.
Kathryn decided to solve it once and for all. She teamed up with Richard He, a fellow ex-Pinterest engineer and long-time friend (we first bonded over our dogs—a golden retriever and a lab). Together we founded Openmart at the end of 2023.
Local first,
always.
Small and medium-sized businesses drive our economy; we intend to be the best in the world at mapping and reaching them.
Enterprise-grade from day 1.
Large companies share the same pain—just at greater scale—so that’s where we started. Mid-market tiers are on our roadmap.
Lean by design.
With AI boosting engineering productivity, we’re keeping our team small and ownership high. We recently raised a $2.75M seed round from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Afore Capital and others to accelerate product development while maintaining strategic control.
Finding the right contact at a local business shouldn’t feel like detective work.
We believe:
Great products deserve great distribution.
Whether you’re a global brand or a first-time founder, you should spend time delighting customers, not chasing down phone numbers.
AI should amplify, not replace.
Our tools take over the repetitive scraping and cleaning so your team can focus on high-value conversations.
Ownership matters.
Staying lean lets us build sustainably and keep our promises—to customers, employees and investors alike.
Join us
If your sales team struggles to penetrate local markets—or you simply want cleaner, richer SMB data—we’d love to help.
Reach out to sales@openmart.com and see what our AI can surface for you in minutes, not months.
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Join hundreds of the world’s leading growth, sales, and marketing teams—like Clipboard Health, Alibaba, Whatnot, and Snackpass—to sell to the lower mid-market more efficiently.
