The SaaS Go-to-Market Intelligence Platform Plans to Use This Capital To Expand Globally and Build a Powerful, Reliable Marketplace for B2B Sellers and Buyers
Slintel, a leader in B2B buyer intelligence, has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by GGV Capital, a global venture capital firm that is known for its investments in successful companies such as Airbnb, HashiCorp, Peloton, Poshmark, Slack, Square, StockX, and Wish. Existing investors Accel, Sequoia Capital India, and Stellaris Venture Partners also participated in the funding round.
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B2B buyers are more digital than ever, and buyer intelligence is taking over traditional sales and marketing intelligence as buyers embark on complex journeys online. It is estimated that by 2025, 80% of all B2B buying will occur on digital channels. Slintel helps go-to-market teams understand where buyers are in their journey, what their pain points are, their adoption of technology, and churn data to get a 360-degree view of the buyer.
The announcement comes shortly after the company reported that its revenue and customer base has grown by over 5x in the last 12 months. Buying intent is the fastest-growing category in the $24 billion sales and marketing intelligence space, and Slintel is one of the fastest-growing companies in this space.
With the backing of GGV Capital, the company aims to establish itself as a leader in this category. “The Slintel team is delighted to welcome Hans Tung as its newest board member,” said Deepak Anchala, CEO and Founder of Slintel. “We look forward to deepening our solution to power-use cases across different GTM functions.”
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Hans Tung, Managing Partner at GGV Capital, was ranked at #3 in Forbes’ prestigious Midas List this year for the strides he made in the strategic investments landscape in 2020. When asked about the investment, Hans stated, “With the global pandemic completely changing the way companies operate, B2B transactions have gone more digital than ever before. Inside sales teams are closing high-value, multi-million dollar deals while working remotely, and products like Slintel are enabling companies to do this by helping them re-imagine their entire sales process for environment.”
“The next big wave in the enterprise space is (the) use of AI to rethink processes, and all AI at its core requires data,” said Alok Goyal, Partner at Stellaris Venture Partners. “I am therefore bullish on the entire data stack, including data which is either proprietary or inferred data that is not easy to replicate. Slintel is in the second category. Their ability to predict strong prospects is a relatively unique capability, and it is very easy to sell due to a direct correlation to (the) top line for their customers.”
“Slintel has one of the best GTM engines that we’ve seen in any startup, and the consistency with which the team has been able to deliver on their growth targets is commendable,” said Prayank Swaroop, Partner at Accel. “We’re looking at a company that’s changing the marketing and sales intelligence sphere as we know it, and we couldn’t be happier to be a part of their board,” he added.
Slintel was founded in 2018 when Deepak Anchala and Rahul Bhattacharya realized that sales organizations needed to re-imagine their processes in order to achieve better efficiency and scale faster. Identifying companies using traditional, beaten-down parameters such as territory, size, industry, or similar companies is an inefficient undertaking that costs marketing and sales professionals valuable time, resources, and effort. To combat this, they built a platform that uncovers various forms of buying intelligence to make the process of identifying high-intent prospects much simpler, more intuitive, and completely data-driven.
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