Paris-based Surfe (previously Leadjet), a workspace for revenue teams, announced on Tuesday that it has raised €4M in a Seed round of funding led by 360 Capital.
The company has rebranded its name from Leadjet to Surfe to reflect its mission of “helping users by bringing balance to their days and creating peace of mind.”
TS Ventures and angels from major European companies, Personio and Tenable, also participated.
The French company says it will use the funds to accelerate team growth and product development, including adding new features to their CRM that will allow customer-facing teams to synchronise contacts from anywhere on the web. This will help them keep track of their customers more easily and provide a better overall experience.
David Maurice Chevalier, Surfe’s co-founder and CEO says, “We’re excited about this next step in our company’s journey. Our new brand identity helps to reflect our long-term vision of helping all customer-facing teams to be bold and achieve their goals without drowning in unnecessary admin. As surfing makes you feel as if you’re involved in a unique and exhilarating community, we want sales teams to feel the same unity and togetherness when using our platform. In addition, the support we have from our investors will allow us to expand and continue to bridge the gap between the wide array of tools that revenue teams are using.”
Surfe: What you need to know
Founded as Leadjet in 2020 by David Maurice Chevalier (CEO) and Romain Ginestou (CTO), the company initially began as a browser extension that allowed users to transfer contacts from LinkedIn to CRMs such as HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, and Copper.
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a process for managing a company’s interactions with current and potential customers.
It often uses technology to automate and streamline processes so that sales, marketing, and customer service teams can work together more efficiently.
CRM systems are designed to help businesses keep track of their customers’ needs, preferences, and contact information to provide better service.
Post rebranding to Surfe, the company aims to become the go-to revenue workspace by making sales, business development, and prospecting easier for all customer-facing teams by connecting all essential softwares, platforms, and CRMs.
Surfe says it will save time on admin, optimise the process of adding contacts to CRMs in one click, and provide teams with contextual information needed to close deals.
The company claims to have a large user presence in the US, UK, France, and Germany.
Since its inception, the team of 22 is already generating an annual recurring revenue of over €1M from a client base of 1500 companies, including global businesses such as Google, Uber, Spendesk, Mirakl, and Opendoor.
Investor
360 Capital is a Venture Capital firm that has invested in early-stage, disruptive enterprises across Europe over the last 25 years. The firm has €450M in assets under management, and has invested in over 140 companies in sectors ranging from deeptech to business process automation.
“Sales and client development are at the heart of success for any customer-facing business, without which their revenue stream would dry up,” adds Thomas Nivard, Investment Director at 360 Capital. “Surfe is helping to remove needless manual tasks from the sales process, allowing teams worldwide to operate more efficiently. We’re delighted to join them, and we are already impressed by the execution they’ve shown over the past few months.”
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