TitanX, a Knoxville, Tennessee, startup whose software predicts which sales prospects are likely to answer a cold call, said on 18 February 2026 that it had acquired FrontSpin, a cloud-based power dialer used by business-to-business sales teams. The press release described it as an eight-figure transaction.
TitanX's founder and chief executive, Joey Gilkey, later gave more detail in an interview with Founderpath, saying the acquisition was worth $13 million and that TitanX paid $7 million up front. The companies did not say how the rest would be paid.
FrontSpin will keep operating as a standalone business, and its existing customers will see no interruption to service, TitanX said. Over time the two companies plan to combine their platforms into one product for sales teams that rely on the phone.
What FrontSpin built
FrontSpin was founded in 2015 by Mansour Salame, whom the release described as a serial entrepreneur and who remains its chief executive. Its cloud power dialer lets sales representatives work through call lists quickly, with features such as prioritised lists, pre-recorded voicemails and integration with customer relationship management systems, according to its software directory listings.
The company says its software is used by large public companies, startups and outsourcing firms, and that it was built by a team with backgrounds in software-as-a-service, cloud, communications and user interface design at Silicon Valley companies. Directory listings place its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. FrontSpin did not disclose revenue, customer numbers or headcount.
TitanX pointed in particular to FrontSpin's work on call deliverability, the technical side of making sure outbound calls reach the person dialled rather than being blocked or flagged as spam.
“After spending more than a decade working behind nearly every dialer on the market, it became clear that very few are built with enterprise-grade call deliverability in mind the way FrontSpin is.”
Why TitanX is buying
TitanX sells what it calls Phone Intent, a score for how likely a given person is to pick up a cold call. The company says its AI was trained on more than one billion calls and identifies roughly the 20% of any market most likely to answer. It says customers reach connect rates of 20% to 30%, compared with an industry average of about 3%; the company's boilerplate gives the figures as 25% and 4%.
Gilkey said that after more than a decade working with almost every dialer on the market, he had found few built with enterprise-grade call deliverability in mind the way FrontSpin was. Pairing TitanX's targeting with FrontSpin's dialing, he said, would have an immediate effect on outbound sales results.
The release argued that sales teams are turning back to the phone as email deliverability declines and LinkedIn limits lead generation activity. Owning a dialer gives TitanX a product that places the calls as well as one that decides whom to call.
Two companies that already worked together
The deal grew out of an existing relationship. Salame said FrontSpin had built a strong partnership with TitanX over the years, based on a shared view that the phone remains the most powerful sales channel, and that joining TitanX would let FrontSpin build faster and offer customers a combined product.
Neither company said whether Salame or FrontSpin's staff would take roles at TitanX, or when the integrated product would be released.
How TitanX paid for it
TitanX was founded in 2024. In January 2026, a month before the deal, it raised a $27 million Series A led by Updata Partners, after growing 350% year over year in 2025. It says it has more than 300 customers in software, fintech, logistics and professional services, won through word of mouth.
In the Founderpath interview Gilkey described the round as growth equity and said $10 million of the $27 million was primary capital, meaning new money for the company rather than shares bought from existing holders. Founderpath listed TitanX's revenue at about $9.7 million.
FrontSpin did not report any outside investors, and the price paid to its shareholders beyond the $7 million up-front amount was not broken down.
