b2b and b2c Sales Enablement software company updates you might have missed

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Announced 5-Mar-2020:

Pipedrive pipedrive.com @pipedrive web-based Sales CRM. CRM platform developed from the salesperson’s point-of-view. 5-Mar-2020, Pipedrive announced it acquired Mailigen, provider of an email marketing automation solution. Their first acquisition will make it easier for Pipedrive customers to access software that generates leads & nurtures customers. Mailigen mailigen.com @mailigen email marketing automation platform & agency servicing small to medium size companies around the world. Email marketing for Pipedrive users: Get ready to engage your customers & make entirely new ones. Mailigen in Riga, Riga, Latvia (Pipedrive estimated annual revenue $46.5M, based in New York, New York, US) August 2020 saw the launch of Sales Docs (in beta): Send trackable quotes, proposals, & contracts from your CRM. See when files are opened & make updates in real-time. Follow up at the right moment and close deals faster. Auto-fill docs with Pipedrive data: Send quotes faster with less manual copy-pasting & fewer errors. Create document templates that automatically pull products from your catalog or information from any Pipedrive field. By sending trackable documents, you get notified whenever they’re opened. Follow up at the right time to lock in sales quickly. Find docs easily: Store quotes, proposals & contracts where you can quickly locate them. Track them against deals in Pipedrive or your chosen storage drive to evaluate their effectiveness & make improvements.

InsideSales.com temporary corporate rebrand to XANT

Along with the rebrand, XANT tried expanding its recently introduced Revenue Acceleration Cloud beyond sales to also enable marketing & account management teams to optimize their day. Xant used to sell a sales engagement platform, its Playbooks Chrome extension (which offers salespeople smart suggestions wherever they may be working, be it their customer relationship management [CRM] platform), and…

Announced 27-Feb-2020:

…also a new mobile sales enablement solution, Playbooks Mobile (a “complete sales enablement solution available on mobile devices. It leverages & provides the full functionality of the Playbooks solution to sales executives”).

XANT, Inc. XANT.ai @XANT_AI Playbooks Mobile by XANT (previously & once again known as insidesales.com) announced rebranding 4-Nov-2019: PLAYBOOKS: The Intelligent Sales Engagement solution that improves the productivity, visibility & effectiveness of teams in a way CRM & AI alone cannot. Complete sales enablement solution available on mobile devices. Guides reps to focus on the accounts, people & opportunities that will actually generate revenue. Playbooks does this by prioritizing a reps daily tasks & enables AI driven engagement. Modern engagement powered by Buyer Intelligence. PROVO, UTAH, USA

Screen Shot 2022-01-02 at 8.35.18 pm5-Oct-2021: Aurea Software Revives InsideSales Brand, Retires XANT. Aurea acquired XANT summer 2021 & will make InsideSales a pillar in its commerce solutions portfolio. The name change to XANT took place in November 2019. “InsideSales is a storied name in enterprise software,” said Aurea CEO Scott Brighton in a statement. “Over the course of 15 years—from 2004 to 2019—it became one of the most recognizable brands in the industry. We’re excited to honor that track record of success, innovation, and commitment to improving how B2B enterprises sell to each other by restoring the classic InsideSales.com brand name immediately.”

2-Aug-2021Aurea calls itself a “business software library” because it offers one subscription that covers dozens of business software products. They added sales engagement tool XANT, which recently changed its name from Inside Sales & will now change it back. Familiar brands on the shelf at Aurea include InsideSales.com, Jive, Infer, FirstRain, Artemis, Interleaf, & CloudFix.

Announced 28-Feb-2020:

Asana asana.com @asana a work management platform for teams. The work management software vendor launched its first offering aimed at a specific job role in 2019 with Asana for Marketing. The list of options for individual business units grew in 2020 with the addition of Asana Operations & Asana Sales. Asana for Operations lets users access Asana’s gallery of workflow templates or create their own custom versions to standardize processes such as vendor & employee onboarding & management. Asana for Operations & Asana for Sales and Account Management are two new end-to-end solutions for teams to manage their entire operations & sales workflows. The suite of capabilities is available on Asana’s Business & Enterprise offerings. Asana targets sales & ops teams with new integrations: Salesforce, Jira Cloud & Tableau integrations are designed to help the work management app appeal to specific business functions. San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US

Atlassian Corporation Plc (Confluence Cloud, Trello, etc) atlassian.com/software/confluence @confluence Confluence is a team workspace where collaboration & knowledge meet. Create, collaborate, & organize all your work in one place. Many organizations use Confluence as their intranet & some even as the Sales Enablement portal. “Confluence Cloud: Get your files together: With the new Microsoft OneDrive for Business integration, embed Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint files in your Confluence pages so it can always be your single source of truth! By typing “/trello” on a Confluence page, you can embed a complete Trello board for easy access. Work together from anywhere with Confluence Mobile: Stay on top of the latest with your team & move work forward – straight from your device.” Sydney, NSW, Australia 13-Oct-2023: Atlassian to acquire video-messaging startup Loom Loom.com @Loom for $975M.

box box.com @box online file sharing & cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, & administrative controls. Simplify how you work. One platform for secure content management, workflow, & collaboration.

The all-new Box Relay is now available. A way to automate processes in Box. For the first time ever, enterprises have a single content management platform to drive team collaboration & streamline processes across the extended enterprise. Productivity & workflow tools usually fall on the extreme ends of the “how work gets done” spectrum: they’re either designed for ad-hoc collaboration or for rigid processes. Yet in today’s agile business, teams need both — a way to collaborate in real time, while also automating the manual work that’s done every day.

Competes with Accellion, Dropbox, & ShareFile. San Francisco Bay Area, USA

Another rebranding:

Close close.com @close (also known as close.io or Elastic) inside sales CRM for startups & SMBs. Close more deals. Supercharge your sales with one of the best CRMs for startups & SMBs. Get pipeline view, calling, lead management, email automation, & more. Palo Alto, California, United States blog.close.com/sales-enablement & sales enablement toolkit

Dropbox dropbox.com @Dropbox (acquired HelloSign) Dropbox for Business helps companies seamlessly collaborate with secure file sharing, access from anywhere, & robust admin controls. San Francisco, CA, US. Acquired HelloSign hellosign.com @HelloSign Simplifying work for the businesses of tomorrow: We are HelloSign, HelloFax & HelloWorks. San Francisco, CA.  10-Mar-2021Dropbox announced it plans to acquire DocSend for $165 millionDocSend docsend.com @DocSend helps customers share & track documents by sending a secure link instead of an attachment.

Olono olono.ai (previous name nexd.io @nexd_ai) @OlonoAI sales orchestration. Intelligent next best actions that improve win rates & quota attainment. Real-time guided selling for B2B sales organizations. SaaS-based solution: Leverages the sales & marketing application investments organizations have already made, capturing all sales activity from any source—then delivers Intelligent Next Best Actions that increase engagement & improve win rates for AE’s & AM’s. Austin, Texas, USA. Oct. 3, 2019InsightSquared insightsquared.com @insightsquared, provider of revenue intelligence solutions, acquired Olono. Together, InsightSquared & Olono offer an end-to-end revenue operations (RevOps) platform, connecting your sales & marketing data with historical & real-time activity & engagement data to boost sales execution & grow revenue. InsightSquared alone had estimated $9M USD in annual revenue & Olono estimated $5.1M USD17-DEC-2021, Mediafly is acquiring InsightSquared to provide revenue teams with 360-degree deal intelligence & prescriptive next steps.

Drift drift.com @Drift Drift.com, Inc. (Connect your sales teams with your future customers now. Provides a buying experience for potential customers, generate more qualified leads, & accelerate the sales cycle. Conversation-driven marketing & sales platform. With its evolving set of tools & playbooks, Drift unlocks the insights buried in conversations to accelerate business success.) acquired Giant Otter Technologies, 3-Sep-2019. Giant Otter offered a way to create conversational AI directly from existing call recordings or chat transcripts. Massachusetts, USA

involve.me involve.me stereosense GmbH (also known as brandquiz) @involvemeapp Make “no code” interactive content in minutes. Set up funnels with 2 minute landing pages, surveys & accept payments online. User engagement platform that helps businesses create personalized customer interactions. Engage Your Users With Interactive Content: Create personalized interactions at every step of the customer journey. Acquire & keep customers involved. involve.me is reimagining customer experience by allowing e-commerce shops & digital marketers to easily create personalized interactions at every step of the customer journey, so they can better acquire & keep customers involved. Vienna, Wien, Austria

Triptych Software triptych.com @GetTriptych Triptych is sales content management & channel marketing enablement all in one! Triptych is sales empowerment. We give distributed marketing & channel selling teams omni-channel sales support that includes everything from print to digital to 3D. Give your reps and channel partners a single platform to customize, order, & provide feedback on sales materials. At the same time give marketing the analytical data it needs to produce effective sales materials & cut waste. Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Owned by or started by the same leader as The Marek Group? See @marekgroup on my list of all Sales Enablement vendors globally or see @tamimarek

Kony kony.com Kony enterprise apps: Reach your employees on any channel – phones, tablets, desktops, & more – to deliver a consistent experience that drives enterprise-wide adoption. Enable sales teams to engage with customers in a personalized & informed way – anytime, anywhere. Help field & plant workers quickly execute & close work orders with intuitive workflows & access to pertinent information. Sep 10, 2019, Geneva-based Temenos’ announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based digital application provider Kony in a deal totalling $580M. September 25, 2019, Temenos (SIX: TEMN), GENEVA Switzerland banking software company, announced that the acquisition of Kony Inc @kony the US digital banking SaaS company has now closed.

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Workplace Collaboration Market Map and Sales Enablement vendors by revenue

Workplace Collaboration Market Map by Merci Victoria Grace

Merci identified 8 categories of workplace collaboration startups: Messaging, voice & video, calendar & meetings, documentation, project management, design, search & context, & low code / no code & internal tools:

Workplace Collaboration Market Map by Merci Victoria Grace

A number of the companies shown above are listed on this blog of mine here for their use cases in Sales Enablement: Asana, Notion, Airtable, Pitch, Canva, Guru, Chorus, etc… Slack might be on the next updated market map… and I’m a big user of Zapier myself.

Notion said 8-Sep-2021 it acquired Automate.io, an Indian startup that builds connectivity & integrations with 200+ services, as the workplace productivity startup looks to accelerate its product expansion to become more compelling for tens of millions of individuals & businesses that are increasingly moving to digital collaborative tools. The San Francisco-headquartered startup, last valued at $2Bn in private markets, said the acquisition of the Hyderabad-headquartered Automate will help Notion understand the know-how of — & leverage — the 200 integrations the Indian startup has developed to give users and enterprises alike the ability to bring their workflows into Notion.

For my own market overview for Sales Enablement I created the chart below (777 line items from this Airtable).

Just like Merci who notes in her blog post “workplace collaboration is largely dominated by Microsoft and Google’s respective productivity suites.” I have also added Google on this chart & my lists as Google Cloud Platform (G Suite / Drive / Docs / Sheets / Slides / Keep / Forms / Sites / programmablesearchengine.google.com / Bard, Google’s experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA).

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Searching through the entire b2b Sales Enablement software market

If you want to find out if a specific name is already being used by a Sales Enablement vendor or you work for a vendor and want to see if they have been mentioned on this blog, please try the search on this blog (upper right on desktop) or on my Airtable.

I never used to see the point in these types of graphics (landscapes) putting together many vendor logos visually…

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…where the nature of the media format and the effort involved only allow updates once a year (some companies included went out of business; See my constantly updated list of dead Sales Enablement companies)…

…and there is no clicking through on individual companies.

However, I like the concept of the interactive graphic over at vendorneutral.com by @Vendor_Neutral where each logo is a link:

For easy sorting and filtering/searching through the entire (835 line items) Sales Enablement software market (and exporting/downloading it) I put together this airtable:

Airtable let’s me show the relationships between the vendors:

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If you prefer blog post style lists with vendor logos please see my global vendor list. This is where they have their key offices:

USA 462
Canada 64
Australia 53
UK 57
India 45
Germany 30
Netherlands 10
Sweden 8
Switzerland 9
Denmark 6
Japan 6
NZ 5
Finland 3
France 10
Belgium 2
Poland 2
Costa Rica 2
China 1
Singapore 4
Mauritius 1
Spain 1
Israel 13
Mexico 1
Italy 1
Thailand 1
Latvia 1
Czech Republic 1
Argentina 1
Greece 1
Luxembourg 1
Austria 1

This is where visitors to this blog came from until 2022 (the year my blog turned 13 years old):

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Sales Enablement lessons on positioning & launching

Quite a number of Sales Enablement lessons in this talk by Kent Weathers on ‘How to launch a product’ in Sydney on 17-Sep-2019:

Frequent Launch Issues

  • Is the sales force ready to sell the product/service/solution?
  • Are sales and marketing (Sales Enablement) collateral complete? (Translated, adapted to different geographies where you intend to launch in terms of currencies/prices/availability/culture/etc?)
  • Did you do the positioning as per April Dunford below?
  • Do you have a one-pager/FAQ as per the photo below?
  • Is the sales training sufficient? (Did you get feedback on it, has it been translated, is it optimised for knowledge retention, recall, micro-learning etc?)

Summary of the talk by Evelyn Ong, Product Professional, Sydney:

  1. Launch goals/metrics = business case goals/metrics. (That way, sponsors/stakeholders are on the same page from the get-go about what success is.)
  2. Contrary to popular belief, the launch is not a one-time event. It’s a continuous part of strategy/strategic execution.
  3. Mitigate risks by checking off your plan against frequent launch failures (see photo above).

Why do new products fail?

“Why do some products fail? Unsurprisingly most often due to corner cutting at the early stages of product inception. Take the time to know your market and customers, and focus on solving a problem in a differentiated way.”
(Summary by Erin Howell, Product Manager at Cloud Conformity)

Kent writes: 40% of all product launches end in failure; but why?

“The Product Launch is the most visible activity in a product’s lifecycle, but, it is not a one-time event. It’s not about the public party when we are ready to make our product available in the market. It’s about the highest-value work we must do before the launch.”

Creating and sharing a ‘launch plan’ at the correct time is a key factor for a successful product launch/go-live!

April Dunford aprildunford.com @aprildunford is the Toronto based author & speaker & blogger aprildunford.com/blog with a deep understanding of Marketing & Positioning. Her book, Obviously Awesome, shows you how to find your product’s “secret sauce”—& then sell that sauce to those who crave it. Having spent years as a startup executive (with 16 product launches under her belt) & a consultant (who’s worked on dozens more), she speaks with authority about breaking through the noise of a crowded market.

Positioning: A definition

(April Dunford aprildunford.com @aprildunford)

Components of positioning:

The positioning process:

Sales Enablement SaaS software for b2b startups

Below is my list of Sales Enablement software/tools perfect for B2B startups. My complete list (which is mostly B2B) is here.

Last updated 13-Apr-2024:

ActiveCampaign activecampaign.com @ActiveCampaign customer experience automation platform helping businesses grow through meaningful engagement with their customers. Notify your team when leads take action: Tell your salespeople when their leads take action. If a lead browses specific pages or puts in a pricing request, send an automatic notification so that your salesperson can follow up directly. ActiveCampaign enables Sales teams in volume: 125 email templates available on the customer experience platform. Each template has been designed using HML & includes images & layout suitable for a wide range of B2B & B2C engagements. The templates also include the codes to draw in data from the Active Campaign platform to enable the easy creation of targeted email campaigns. Email marketing is still the king of B2B marketing! The responsive templates slot into one of 500+ automation recipes that ActiveCampaign has on its platform. These enable the automation of the complete sales lifecycle for a customer. Templates are usable for any product & any brand within a portfolio. It is possible to switch colours, fonts, & images & update text. The responsive design ensures that every email sent is easily read, no matter what the device used. More than half of all emails are opened on a mobile device! 3-May-2022, ActiveCampaign acquired Postmark as it builds on rapid growth: Postmark and DMARC Digests, two products owned by Philly web dev mainstay Wildbit, were sold to Chicago-based ActiveCampaign, LLC. Chicago, IL, USA


airtable.com @airtable Creation guide for 5 essential pieces of content to help you drive deals, from start to close: offers.hubspot.com/sales-enablement-guide ebook. Sales Collateral Management. Made Flexible & Effortless‎. Manage case studies, call decks, & more with the ease of using a spreadsheet. 350+ App Integrations. Spreadsheet Interface. Used by 30,000+ companies. Realtime Collaboration. Drag & Drop File Uploads. Gallery & Card Views. Easy As A Spreadsheet. $5M in revenue annually. Competes with Basecamp, hopTo, & Trello. San Francisco, CA


Asana asana.com @asana a work management platform for teams. The work management software vendor launched its first offering aimed at a specific job role in 2019 with Asana for Marketing. The list of options for individual business units grew in 2020 with the addition of Asana Operations & Asana Sales. Asana for Operations lets users access Asana’s gallery of workflow templates or create their own custom versions to standardize processes such as vendor & employee onboarding & management. Asana for Operations & Asana for Sales and Account Management are two new end-to-end solutions for teams to manage their entire operations & sales workflows. The suite of capabilities is available on Asana’s Business & Enterprise offerings. Asana targets sales & ops teams with new integrations: Salesforce, Jira Cloud & Tableau integrations are designed to help the work management app appeal to specific business functions. San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US


Atlassian Corporation Plc (Confluence Cloud, Trello, etc) atlassian.com/software/confluence @confluence Confluence is a team workspace where collaboration & knowledge meet. Create, collaborate, & organize all your work in one place. Many organizations use Confluence as their intranet & some even as the Sales Enablement portal. Confluence Cloud: Get your files together: With the new Microsoft OneDrive for Business integration, embed Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint files in your Confluence pages so it can always be your single source of truth! By typing “/trello” on a Confluence page, you can embed a complete Trello board for easy access. Work together from anywhere with Confluence Mobile: Stay on top of the latest with your team & move work forward – straight from your device. Sydney, NSW, Australia Atlassian acquires video-messaging startup Loom Loom.com @Loom for $975M. Sydney, NSW, Australia


Screen Shot 2022-05-18 at 4.32.29 pmOrtto ortto.com @OrttoHQ former Autopilot autopilothq.com autopilotapp.com @autopilotapp visual marketing software for automating customer journeys. Make more money with marketing automation designed for the entire customer journey. Automate your marketing visually & create remarkable customer journeys. Integrate with @burstsms using the new webhook shape to instantly send an alert to your customers when a payment is overdue. Autopilot (formerly Bislr) was founded in 2012 by three brothers from Australia. AutopilotHQ Inc., Sydney, NSW, Australia. 30-Mar-2022, Autopilot rebrands as Ortto. The Australian SaaS success story, Autopilot, has unveiled a new name & logo as part of a major rebrand: ortto.com


Screen Shot 2023-11-21 at 2.31.22 pmAWST awst.io currently building WorkRamen workramen.com Make Work Simple. Achieve More with WorkRamen. Experience a new level of convenience with WorkRamen. Revolutionize your operations with enhanced security, streamlined processes, & simplified workflows for everyone in your organisation. WorkRamen: WORKPLACE PRODUCTIVITY. All-in-one business suite that boosts productivity & saves time. The platform empowers businesses & its employees to achieve more by simplifying day-to-day tasks. WorkRamen is a productivity platform for sales teams. A platform that helps founders & growth teams focus on selling & not spend time updating chunky CRMs & juggling multiple tools. Features incl. streamlining tasks like scheduling meetings, automated updates on collateral sent to clients, digital signing tools & conversational search on your sales documents with GenAI (Generative AI). ArtWallStreet Pte Ltd of UEN 202032492K, 7 Temasek Boulevard, #12-07 Suntec Tower One, Singapore 038987


box box.com @box Online file sharing & cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, & administrative controls. Simplify how you work. One platform for secure content management, workflow, & collaboration. The all-new Box Relay is now available. A way to automate processes in Box. For the first time ever, enterprises have a single content management platform to drive team collaboration & streamline processes across the extended enterprise. Productivity & workflow tools usually fall on the extreme ends of the “how work gets done” spectrum: they’re either designed for ad-hoc collaboration or for rigid processes. Yet in today’s agile business, teams need both — a way to collaborate in real time, while also automating the manual work that’s done every day. Competes with Accellion, Dropbox, & ShareFile. San Francisco Bay Area, USA


Brandcast brandcast.com now timesites.com @brandcastapp No Code: code-free web content system. Create branded websites & content in a connected, design-driven system. Customizable. Engaging. Trackable. Discover the power of interactive sales collateral. Your prospects will love it & you can track their interactions from cold call to closing. Pitch decks, Sales proposals, Case studies, & Web brochures. Replacing static, slow-loading PDFs with interactive content is a new idea. Adding videos, demos, or showrooms to presentations livens up the pitch like nothing else. Going forward, you may have fewer live meetings where you can develop personal bonds with customers. That makes lively, engaging presentations more important than ever. Brandcast Salesforce Studio is an integration that allows a Salesforce user to automatically create a personalized website directly from a Salesforce Account or Opportunity record. The personalized website will pull content & data from Salesforce to create a personalized experience. All websites created from Salesforce can be updated in real-time & are automatically equipped with tracking metrics that allow a Salesforce user to see engagement activity directly from Salesforce. San Francisco, CA, USA.Screen Shot 2023-01-22 at 2.07.20 pm 30-Aug-2022: BRANDCAST IS NOW TIME SITES timesites.com We’ve joined iconic media brand TIME to deliver a more expansive platform for storytelling. The global media company TIME announced the acquisition of Brandcast, the leading no-code platform for creating and managing enterprise-grade websites.


Screen Shot 2023-11-17 at 1.32.44 pmKnown Pty Ltd (ABN 40116431700) t/a ‘Kudosity Co.’ kudosity.co former Burst SMS burstsms.com @burstSMS global online messaging platform. Easy-to-use online SMS platform with a focus on marketing, operations, & advanced SMS API solutions. Salesforce integration to send SMS from within Salesforce. Also Eloqua, Marketo, Oracle Responsys, Zoho CRM, ActiveCampaign, Zapier.com, etc…


Screen Shot 2022-12-08 at 9.05.10 pmCacheflow getcacheflow.com @getcacheflow Sell more, Sell faster. With Flexible Payments. Simple, yet flexible deal close platform. Add a B2C-like checkout quality to your B2B deal close. Proposal to Cash: Automate & speed up every step of the proposal, close & payment process. Cacheflow’s modular platform can integrate with any part of your existing process to close deals faster & Screen Shot 2022-12-08 at 9.07.16 pmdeliver a superior buyer experience. Create interactive winning proposals in minutes. Traditional configure, price, quote tools are complicated & confusing. Cacheflow makes the complex simple. An easy quote-building editor & templates speed up sales. Behind the scenes, our powerful configuration tools support complex product catalogs, pricing flexibility, & approved legal docs. Don’t wait to send the invoice to collect payment. Customers often delay payment until they receive their invoice, & even then it’s a challenge to collect payment on time. Cacheflow prompts your customers to pay directly in the checkout experience. Offer your customers one-time or recurring credit card or ACH payment, with flexible billing & payment plans & support of usage-based billing models. Once the payment has been captured, billing details are synced with your ERP and/or your subscription management solutions. Los Altos, CA, USA


Canva canva.com @canva graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, & more: Brand Kit, Make an infographic in minutes, not months, with Canva’s easy-to-use infographic creator. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a Screen Shot 2021-04-01 at 7.36.26 pmstock library of photographs, illustrations, & imagery. Real-time collaboration: Design with your team or co-presenters via a link or email, then comment, edit, & collaborate in real-time. Pre-record to present confidently, every time: With Canva, you don’t need a live audience to deliver great presentations. Add audio, or pre-record yourself talking over a presentation, then share your video to be viewed anytime, anywhere. Download “Talking Presentations” as MP4 videos. It’s excellent for capturing audiences beyond a one-time event. Established in 2012. Competes with Loom.com, Pitch.com, PicMonkey, Piktochart, & Adobe Systems. Sydney, NSW, Australia. 24-Apr-2018: Canva made its first acquisition by buying Sydney-based software company Zeetings (presentation platform that enables its users to combine their PowerPoints & PDFs with video, web content, images, & polls).


Close close.com @close (also known as close.io or Elastic) inside sales CRM for startups & SMBs. Close more deals. Supercharge your sales with one of the best CRMs for startups & SMBs. Get pipeline view, calling, lead management, email automation, & more. Palo Alto, California, United States blog.close.com/sales-enablement & sales enablement toolkit


Screen Shot 2022-03-27 at 10.47.21 amCooby cooby.co @JoinCooby unlock the power of conversations. Making WhatsApp your sales weapon. Bring visibility into customer conversations from your teams’ regular WhatsApp numbers with analytics, customer tracking & intelligence. Modernize your WhatsApp inbox with tabs, notes, reminders, social profile, calendar integration, etc. Cooby, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA


Screen Shot 2022-02-20 at 2.14.24 pmDeckLinks DeckLinks.com @deck_links B2B SaaS created to make sales more conversational. Helps sales teams securely share sales decks & instantly access engagement analytics to close more deals faster. BriefBid briefbid.com @briefbid launched DeckLinks: Platform that helps sales teams share interactive sales decks & access instant analytics on buyer engagement; positioning DeckLinks as Google Analytics for sales decks. Offers analytics for deck sharing & is a new stand-alone product that was inspired by key-learnings from the BriefBid’s B2B Screen Shot 2022-02-20 at 2.16.07 pmmarketplace, which serves media buyers & sellers through RFP management & matchmaking. They saw sell-side users often sharing one-directional, static sales decks that failed to garner responses / feedback. Through an effort to understand how their buy-side users engage with sales material in the marketplace, the company developed tools to track interactions with their own sales decks to their users. “In our effort to solve a problem in the media RFP space, we discovered a problem in the sales space. When we thought we were solving a problem for our users, we ended up solving a problem for sales people in general. Sometimes great products come out of internal tools that can be applied externally […].” The DeckLinks platform is capable of showing sales reps how buyers specifically interact with sales materials, even when no direct response is provided. Allows sales teams to start more conversations with relevant follow-ups, access actionable insights to improve their efforts, & close more deals by personalizing client experiences. Goes beyond traditional document sharing platforms by creating a custom, fully-trackable microsite that houses each deck. Features include company profiles, industry-specific modules, & other widgets. TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA


Screen Shot 2022-04-01 at 10.39.34 amDecktopus decktopus.com @decktopus create presentations, sales sheets, portfolios & many more with the auto-adjusted layouts in an extremely short time. Don’t waste time formatting. Focus on your content. Out of the ordinary presentation tool: Create not only presentations but also proposals, bio links (decktop.us your bio: Create a link connecting your audience to all your content! Seems to be aiming to become the linktree of b2b), sales funnels, forms & microsites. Prepare to embed forms, videos, websites & links to your slides. A fast & engaging business proposal & presentation creation tool for “No Code” creators & busy professionals. Palo Alto, CA, USA


Dropbox dropbox.com @Dropbox (acquired HelloSign) Dropbox for Business helps companies seamlessly collaborate with secure file sharing, access from anywhere, & robust admin controls. San Francisco, CA, US. Acquired HelloSign hellosign.com @HelloSign Simplifying work for the businesses of tomorrow: We are HelloSign, HelloFax & HelloWorks. San Francisco, CA. 10-Mar-2021Dropbox announced it plans to acquire DocSend for $165 million. DocSend docsend.com @DocSend helps customers share & track documents by sending a secure link instead of an attachment.


Google Cloud Platform (G Suite / Drive / Docs / Sheets / Slides / Keep / Forms / Sites) Alphabet Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA


Hubspot hubspot.com @HubSpot inbound marketing & sales platform. hubspot.com/sales-enablement Sales enablement is the technology, processes, & content that empower sales teams to sell efficiently at a higher velocity. Sales Content Optimization: Contrary to common assumptions, marketers are not the only people producing content. In fact, in many companies, sales produces more content than marketing. Every minute a sale rep spends creating content is a minute they aren’t selling. The fact that salespeople take time to produce personalized content shows how important it is in the final stages of a buyer’s journey. Organize sales content: The first step in a sales enablement content strategy is a full content audit. NYSE: HUBS. Competes with Act-On Software, Marketo, & Pardot. Cambridge, MA, USA. Marketing software maker HubSpot Inc. hubspot.com @HubSpot announced 1-Nov-2023 it is acquiring the business data provider Clearbit clearbit.com @clearbit to enhance its data that will fuel the company’s AI capabilities.


Screen Shot 2021-04-07 at 5.45.31 pmLoom loom.com @loom work communication tool that helps get your message across through instantly shareable video. Say it with video! Get your message across, no matter where you work. Sending a Loom is more efficient than typing long emails or spending your day in meetings having conversations that don’t need to happen in real-time. You talk up to 6x faster than you type. Capture your screen, record their front-facing camera, & narrate video all at once with no switching apps or upload required. Whether it’s training new teammates or replying to a customer inquiry, Loom enhances the way people communicate at work by allowing them to send the next best thing to being there. Why Sales teams use Loom: Improve outreach. Accelerate sales cycles. Optimize performance. Streamline onboarding. San Francisco, CA, USA. Legal name Opentest, Inc. 13-Oct-2023: Atlassian acquires video-messaging startup Loom Loom.com @Loom for $975M. Sydney, NSW, Australia


Notion notion.so @NotionHQ & Notion AI. All-in-one workspace – for notes, tasks, wikis, & databases. Note-taking & collaboration application for your notes, tasks, wikis, & databases. $11M in estimated revenue annually. Competes with Quip, Airtable, & Simplenote. San Francisco, CA, USA. 8-Sep-2021 it acquired Automate.io, an Indian startup that builds connectivity & integrations with 200+ services, as the workplace productivity startup looks to accelerate its product expansion to become more compelling for tens of millions of individuals & businesses that are increasingly moving to digital collaborative tools. The San Francisco-headquartered startup, last valued at $2Bn in private markets, said the acquisition of the Hyderabad-headquartered Automate will help Notion understand the know-how of — & leverage — the 200 integrations the Indian startup has developed to give users and enterprises alike the ability to bring their workflows into Notion.

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Pipedrive pipedrive.com @pipedrive web-based Sales CRM. CRM platform developed from the salesperson’s point-of-view. 5-Mar-2020, Pipedrive announced it acquired Mailigen, provider of an email marketing automation solution. Their first acquisition will make it easier for Pipedrive customers to access software that generates leads & nurtures customers. Mailigen mailigen.com @mailigen email marketing automation platform & agency servicing small to medium size companies around the world. Email marketing for Pipedrive users: Get ready to engage your customers & make entirely new ones. Mailigen in Riga, Riga, Latvia (Pipedrive estimated annual revenue $46.5M, based in New York, New York, US) August 2020 saw the launch of Sales Docs (in beta): Send trackable quotes, proposals, & contracts from your CRM. See when files are opened & make updates in real-time. Follow up at the right moment and close deals faster. Auto-fill docs with Pipedrive data: Send quotes faster with less manual copy-pasting & fewer errors. Create document templates that automatically pull products from your catalog or information from any Pipedrive field. By sending trackable documents, you get notified whenever they’re opened. Follow up at the right time to lock in sales quickly. Find docs easily: Store quotes, proposals & contracts where you can quickly locate them. Track them against deals in Pipedrive or your chosen storage drive to evaluate their effectiveness & make improvements. 12-Nov-2020, Pipedrive acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.5Bn USD.


Pitch pitch.com @Pitch Pitch Software GmbH. Open platform for presentations & content collaboration. Improve the way presentations are crafted & knowledge is shared. Presentation tool & platform for students, teachers, creatives, managers, startups & teams everywhere. With Slack & Front transforming business communication, Airtable & Coda disrupting Excel, & Sketch & Framer on a mission to break Photoshop’s monopoly, we saw innovation & thoughtful design resetting expectations & reimagining the user experience of complex business software. Yet, even with this shift, presentation tools have not kept pace with technology; we believe there needs to be something new, different & substantially better. Software startup founded Jan-2018. Now $22.7M funding: Index Ventures, BlueYard, Slack Fund, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, Framer CEO Koen Bok, Elastic Co-Founder Simon Willnauer, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, Wunderlist-backer Frank Thelen & Metalab Founder Andrew Wilkinson. Their founding team created Wunderlist. $1M in revenue annually & competes with Prezi, Powtoon, & Slidebean. Berlin, Germany


Screen Shot 2022-06-30 at 11.39.15 amPitchloop pitchloop.io Manage The Loop: The pitch flows from Sales Marketing headquarters to salesperson who tweaks & practices at will. Data flows back to headquarters informing management of progress & guiding interaction. Pitchloop analyzes your verbal delivery in real-time, pin-pointing opportunities for honing your accuracy, prosody & pacing. Express the ideas of the pitch in your own words & get AI generated feedback on your personal version. Listen to your recordings for further reflection. Analyze your data to improve. Practice feedback is summarized as actionable insights. Managers can facilitate effective coaching by listening to any recording. Team leaders can drill down to details or zoom out to see & compare the progress of the whole team. Menlo Park, CA, USA. Pitchloop is a subsidiary of Shanenli LTD


Screen Shot 2023-01-25 at 3.08.56 pmPod workwithpod.com @PodWorkspace Supercharge your enterprise sales team with Pod’s intelligent hub. Less time wasted on guessing, more on doing. The Smart Workspace for Sales Teams. Remove the noise. Close more deals. You shouldn’t waste time digging through all your sales tools. Focus on what matters & hit your quota every month with the only all-in-one productivity workspace, built for you. Pod is the all-in-one workspace for B2B sales teams. Work 10x faster every day. Seamlessly collaborate on deals, quickly update your CRM, and intuitively track your task, notes, & more. Pod Chrome Extension: You probably jump between 15 different tools daily, wasting time updating your Salesforce or looking for information your need. You shouldn’t have to work in Excel, OneNote, or Trello. It’s time for a productivity tool built for sellers. Pod is a smart productivity workspace for account executives. It’s your new command center. Pod Technologies, Inc. San Francisco, CA, USA


Screen Shot 2022-01-28 at 9.28.28 amPostBeyond postbeyond.com @postbeyond cloud-based employee engagement & advocacy platform that enables employees & partners to post approved brand content to their personal networks in an efficient, consistent, & measurable way. $9M in revenue? PostBeyond Inc. Toronto, ON, Canada. 8-Dec-2021 Influitive Inc influitive.com @influitive (also Toronto, ON, Canada) acquired PostBeyond for an undisclosed amount.


Screen Shot 2022-03-02 at 9.03.53 amFormer Practice Ignition practiceignition.com now ignitionapp.com @ignitionapp Eliminate debtors & fully automate client onboarding. “Proposal to paid in one place! Eliminate the friction by sending your clients a single smart proposal they can read, sign, & make a payment on in one sitting. That’s more closed deals for you and less back & forth for everyone”. Create intelligent proposals that trigger workflows, automate your back office & increase conversions. “No more word docs, email trails, or data duplication. Software that facilitates proposals, payments, insights, scope management, & integrations.” Competes with Jetpack Workflow, Capium Ltd, & Canopy. Sydney, NSW, Australia


Process Street process.st @processstreet document, track, automate & optimize customer-centric processes. Help sales & customer success teams drive revenue & reduce churn. “The home for your team’s recurring tasks. Create, track & optimize business process workflows.” SaaS platform that lets non-technical teams create powerful, API driven workflows. They don’t seem to compete with Zapier, but integrate with your Zapier account. San Francisco, USA, but many roots in Sydney, Australia


Screen Shot 2021-10-22 at 9.41.05 amQuestmate questmate.com @QuestmateApp No Code. Making work simple, rewarding & consistent. Define a specific reward/incentive to be paid out / accessed right at the end of the workflow / job / task. In that sense almost a NoCode Smart Contract. Engaging Workflows. For teams of any type, size & mission. Team onboarding, training, tasks, etc. The simplicity of to-do lists 9G7dlbJj_400x400with straightforward guidance & powerful integrations of external systems & applications. Enabling you to build empowering workflows that connect the what to the how. Also perfect for Customer Onboarding, Staff Onboarding & Surveys. Register for BETA access. Avalon Beach, Sydney, NSW, Australia. (Full disclosure: I’m an angel investor)

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Qwilr qwilr.com @Qwilr pitch with confidence & win more work. Quickly create beautiful & intuitive proposals, sales & marketing documents. Whether you’re creating internally or sharing externally, Qwilr allows you to build document processes that are fast & easy-to-adopt. Set up your brand once, and it’ll update everywhere. Ensure consistency across all of your documents by setting up your colours, fonts & templates so your team is always on brand. Streamline your sales process: Remove the hassle for clients, & start working & earning faster. Integrate with CRMs, accounting tools & more. Integrate with other tools you love: Integrate Qwilr with the CRM, accounting, live chat & analytics tools. Understand your clients better: Track & analyze how your sales & marketing material is browsed. Be notified when your document is first viewed, see how many times it was viewed & what sections your customer actually cared about. Analytics features. Competes with PandaDoc, Bidsketch, & Proposable. Sydney, NSW


Screen Shot 2022-03-19 at 5.56.13 pmSaleo saleo.io @getSaleo Sales Demo Personalization: Software sales is hard enough – don’t let generic demos or bad data interfere with winning deals. Create incredible, personalized demos at scale for your team. Build the perfect demo that tells the right story across any vertical, pain point, or user case. Replicate success across all go-to-market teams with ease (Sales, Solutions Consultants, & Product Marketing). Atlanta, GA, USA. Saleo, Inc.


Screen Shot 2023-02-09 at 8.44.28 amSmartCue getsmartcue.com @getSmartCue Personalized Product Demos. Create personalized demos for EVERY prospect. Deliver tailored demos to help you win more deals! SmartCue enables teams to create personalized, contextual product demo libraries for their prospect demos. Visual & textual cues show up in real-time from your library when you are demoing to your prospects. Launched a Chrome Extension. Only supports web apps as of now. Mobile & CRM integrations are coming soon. SmartCue Inc. Denver, CO, USA


SalesLoft salesloft.com @SalesLoft sales engagement platform. Transform the way sellers engage with their customers by delivering a better selling experience. Finally experience true marketing & sales alignment on a single platform. With improved visibility & easy collaboration on templates, sales plays, & lead routing, SalesLoft puts marketing & sales on the same page. Expanded Machine Learning capabilities enable sales professionals to take personalization to the next level. Eg: Seniority model automatically recognizes a person’s position in the organization & place them into the ideal persona-based cadence. Hot Leads injects Artificial Intelligence (AI) into workflows where it counts, prioritizing engaged contacts, so users can focus their efforts connecting with the right people at the right time. $23M in revenue annually & competes with Outreach, Velocify, Inc., & Insidesales.com. 2k+ customers, including Square, MuleSoft, WeWork, & Dell, use the company’s sales engagement platform to engage in more relevant, authentic & sincere ways. (Acquired Costello 4-Nov-2019.) Headquartered in Atlanta, they have additional locations in San Francisco, New York City & Guadalajara, Mexico. Atlanta, GA, USA. 22-Dec-2021, Salesloft acquired by Vista Equity Partners.


Screen Shot 2023-01-27 at 12.16.49 pmSalesmachine (Drucker) usesalesmachine.com @usesalesmachine Revolutionizing sales demos with AI technology! Salesmachine is a sales demo editor powered by OpenAI GPT. “Because Salespeople are Rockstars: Salesmachine empowers anybody to create within minutes the most exciting & informative product demos the market has ever seen. Share winning demos with your clients. Know more, show the product and miracles will happen.” app.usesalesmachine.com/login Drucker allows your sales team to share interactive demos with clients. chrisstrobl.com “My new startup Salesmachine. I’m the CTO & Co-Founder of Salesmachine. More soon.” Built with Webflow, Bubble & Figma. Started sometime just before 25-Nov-2022. Palo Alto, CA, USA. German founder.


Screen Shot 2023-02-10 at 12.33.32 pmSalesRiver salesriver.com all-in-one sales platform for distributed teams. Acquire, route, sell, manage. Capture in-market consumers wherever, whenever & however you need them – your own sources or ours. INTELLIGENT ROUTING: Eliminate manual processes. Deliver each prospect to the right person every time – with lightning-fast automations. SALES ENABLEMENT: Bring a powerful suite of tools to your salespeople. Efficiently sell every type of lead with built-in compliance. SALES MANAGEMENT: Transparency combined with layered controls provides you with a customizable, all-in-one platform that maximizes results. Leadrilla Inc (doing business as SalesRiver) Lexington, Kentucky, United States


Screenshot 2023-03-28 at 2.16.29 pmSalesTable.AI salestable.ai @salestable_ai All-in-one sales enablement platform for founder-led sales. Reduce Ramp Time. Close Deals Faster. Increase Revenue. Level up your sales team’s performance with our comprehensive onboarding, training & ongoing assessment. Track your team’s work with real-time data & analytics. Salestable.AI, Inc San Ramon, California, USA


Screen Shot 2022-02-24 at 5.48.26 pmSizle sizle.io @sizle_io all-in-one document collaboration & analysis toolkit used in 150+ countries. No matter what you’re sharing, ensure the right files are sent to the right people at the right time. Seeing how much time prospects spend on each slide of a presentation a helps us optimize all of our sales & marketing collateral.[…] find the concept of using a presentation together with a lead capture workflow genius, I use Sizle when I need to send a document to a new prospect. Sizle Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Australia


Slack slack.com/intl/en-au/solutions/sales @slackhq enterprise software platform that allows teams & businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively. Hub for your sales management process: From research to pitch decks to contracts, Slack is where sales happens. Sales teams use Slack for: COMMUNICATION, AUTOMATION, TEAM-BUILDING, HANDOFFS. SF, CA, USA. 30 Nov 2020: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack.


Screen Shot 2022-07-03 at 3.03.03 pmSnackwyze snackwyze.com @snackwyze Interactive click-through demo automation platform for product-led teams. Create interactive product experiences from screen recordings in seconds. Great for SaaS walkthroughs, product tours, software demos, how-to guides & more! SUPER SIMPLE SELF-SERVICE DEMO AUTOMATION: Scale Presales Simply. Snackwyze is for Presales teams who want to keep it simple. Record your screen & see interactive clickthrough demos come to life in seconds. Enable buyers with interactive, self-service experiences you can create simply with a drag&drop code free editor. Discover additional key stakeholders organically, understand their preferences better & close deals in record time. CONSISTENT BUYER ENABLEMENT: Are you reinforcing your prospect’s trust throughout their buying journey? Snackwyze for product & growth marketing: Show, don’t tell! Avoid Pre-mature demo meetings, guide your prospects to “Aha” moments instantly, connect prospects to the right sales experts when ready. California, USA


Screen Shot 2022-10-05 at 1.22.11 pmTigerLRM tigerlrm.com @TigerLRM all-in-one Solution for Successful Sales Teams: Next-Generation CRM & Sales Enablement Solution. Designed by Sales Leaders to Enable Winning Teams. Created by top closers to guarantee more closed deals. TigerLRM’s FREE, feature-rich platform helps multiply sales teams’ output & empower sales enablement professionals, producing immediate results that are unmatched by any other sales tool. Additionally: Businesses premium sales enablement services that maximize sales teams’ efforts, bringing measurable improvements throughout the pre-close sales cycle. Native mobile apps for iOS & Android, Microsoft Outlook plugin, merchant payment portal, Twilio softphone functionality, web form API, & other features designed for businesses & reps to exceed sales quotas. TigerLRM mobile app allows sales teams, executives & business owners to access TigerLRM’s CRM & Sales Enablement platform while on the go. TigerLRM, LLC, Sunrise, FL, USA


Uberflip uberflip.com @uberflip helps marketers create, manage, & optimize content experiences at every stage of the buyer journey – without relying on IT. Use Uberflip to power your: Company Blog, Resource Center, Content Library, Sales Enablement. Streamline content management, accelerate lead generation, & fuel marketing automation. Toronto, Canada


Screen Shot 2023-03-25 at 8.46.48 pmVisme visme.co @VismeApp your all-in-one platform for creating presentations, documents, data visualizations, videos & other branded content. Collaborative design platform, empowering anyone to create professional presentations, data visualizations, videos & more. Visme’s newest app integration – Salesforce: With Visme & Salesforce, users can manage & streamline the creation process of their sales content & deliverables by instantly populating dynamic fields in the materials with Salesforce data, & applying account personalizations – improving efficiency & accuracy across sales teams. The two platforms seamlessly work in tandem to create personalized, engaging, design-forward materials that look like they came out of a graphics department. Your team can gain insights into how audiences are viewing content after it’s sent, removing the guesswork on what’s compelling to your viewers, & optimizing your follow-up strategy. Sales Enablement Materials: Design product comparisons, case studies, printables, direct mail content & more to help sell your products & services to prospective clients. Washington D.C., USA


WebinarNinja webinarninja.com @WebinarNinja not just a webinar platform. A complete marketing, training and sales system. All in the cloud. Your attendees can join your webinar with any web browser, on desktop or any mobile device. There is no need for them to download or install any software. It couldn’t it be faster or easier for them to attend your webinars. Sydney


Wistia wistia.com @wistia video hosting built for business. Share internal or private videos: Selectively set permissions so you can securely share internal videos & collaborate with your team. Collect feedback on your videos: Share videos & analytics with the rest of your team (or clients), & collect their feedback with time-coded comments. Cambridge, MA


Sales Enablement software perfect for Low Code or No Code or DIY Do It Yourself and for B2C

Below is my list of Sales Enablement software/tools perfect for “No Code” or “Low Code” or DIY (Do It Yourself) and for B2C (Business-to-consumer). My complete (mostly B2B) list is here.

Last updated 13-Apr-2024:


Adobe Systems: Adobe’s new Firefly generative tool (generate extraordinary new content). Adobe Digital Publishing Suite now part of Adobe Experience Manager Mobile. Create content like you always did for print, but publish to a tablet instead. Need to make an emergency change to the app? Designers can push an update the same day. Sep-2018, Adobe Systems Inc. acquired software maker Marketo Inc. for $4.75bn. 19-Apr-2017, Marketo acquired ToutApp: $7M in revenue annually & competes with Velocify, Inc., Outreach, & SalesLoft. Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) will NOT acquire Figma, a leading web-first collaborative design platform.


airtable.com @airtable creation guide for essential pieces of content to drive deals, from start to close: offers.hubspot.com/sales-enablement-guide ebook. Sales Collateral Management. Made Flexible & Effortless‎. Manage case studies, call decks, & more with the ease of using a spreadsheet. 350+ App Integrations. Spreadsheet Interface. Used by 30,000+ companies. Realtime Collaboration. Drag & Drop File Uploads. Gallery & Card Views. Easy As A Spreadsheet. $5M in revenue annually. Competes with Basecamp, hopTo, & Trello. San Francisco, CA


1558054273427Amplemarket amplemarket.com @amplemarket The pandemic was a catalyst for remote sales motions. It’s not uncommon to see enterprise account executives close multi-million dollar deals without ever meeting the buyer in person. This highlights the importance of a sales stack easy to implement, learn & manage; individual reps need the tools necessary to hit their quota, & managers need to have visibility into what’s happening across their teams without being able to be physically next to their teams on a daily basis. Most sales teams need to stitch together a variety of point solutions to execute their sales motions. Amplemarket can replace a number of those across a few different categories. It was launched in 2019 by MIT alumnus who saw firsthand the challenges of scaling B2B sales in other companies & realized existing point solutions don’t address core problems. The excessive fragmentation of the present-day sales stack combined with recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) set up the opportunity for an all-in-one compound solution that can leverage the virtuous data cycles of having a central system of action. Sales teams have more SaaS subscriptions than they know what to do with, leading to friction & added operational complexity. They designed Amplemarket to rally different pieces of the B2B sales process around a single prospect versus a collection of siloed, disparate tools. Email deliverability is probably one of the most important problems that go-to-market teams have to deal with when doing B2B sales. Email deliverability is a complex multivariate problem & a lot of the things companies did 5 years ago to keep a healthy deliverability aren’t enough. Better Deliverability -> More Sales Conversations -> Increased Sales Pipeline -> More New Customers -> More Revenue! For B2B companies improving their top of the funnel, engaging with more prospects translates directly into more revenue at the bottom of the funnel. So, really, for sales teams: Deliverability = Revenue! San Francisco, CA, US


Asana asana.com @asana work management platform for teams. The work management software vendor launched its first offering aimed at a specific job role in 2019 with Asana for Marketing. The list of options for individual business units grew in 2020 with the addition of Asana Operations & Asana Sales. Asana for Operations lets users access Asana’s gallery of workflow templates or create their own custom versions to standardize processes such as vendor & employee onboarding & management. Asana for Operations & Asana for Sales and Account Management are two new end-to-end solutions for teams to manage their entire operations & sales workflows. The suite of capabilities is available on Asana’s Business & Enterprise offerings. Asana targets sales & ops teams with new integrations: Salesforce, Jira Cloud & Tableau integrations are designed to help the work management app appeal to specific business functions. San Francisco Bay Area, US


Atlassian Corporation Plc (Confluence Cloud, Trello, etc) atlassian.com/software/confluence @confluence Confluence is a team workspace where collaboration & knowledge meet. Create, collaborate, & organise all your work in one place. Many organisations use Confluence as their intranet & some even as the Sales Enablement portal. “Confluence Cloud: Get your files together: With the new Microsoft OneDrive for Business integration, embed Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint files in your Confluence pages so it can always be your single source of truth! By typing “/trello” on a Confluence page, you can embed a complete Trello board for easy access. Work together from anywhere with Confluence Mobile: Stay on top of the latest with your team & move work forward – straight from your device.” Sydney, NSW, Australia. Percept.AI percept.ai (previous name Buddy AI?) AI company from Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch. Used to offer an automated virtual agent support solution — a chatbot, basically — based on a proprietary AI engine for natural language understanding. Sunnyvale CA, USA. 28-Jan-2022, Atlassian announced it acquired Percept.AI & plans to integrate this virtual agent technology into Jira Service Management, its tool for helping IT teams provide better service to employees & customers. 13-Oct-2023: Atlassian to acquire video-messaging startup Loom Loom.com @Loom for $975M. Sydney, NSW, Australia


Screen Shot 2022-05-18 at 4.32.29 pmOrtto ortto.com @OrttoHQ former Autopilot autopilothq.com autopilotapp.com @autopilotapp visual marketing software for automating customer journeys. Make more money with marketing automation designed for the entire customer journey. Automate your marketing visually & create remarkable customer journeys. Integrate with @burstsms using the new webhook shape to instantly send an alert to your customers when a payment is overdue. Autopilot (formerly Bislr) was founded in 2012 by three brothers from Australia. AutopilotHQ Inc., Sydney, NSW, Australia. 30-Mar-2022, Autopilot rebrands as Ortto. The Australian SaaS success story, Autopilot, has unveiled a new name & logo as part of a major rebrand: ortto.com


Screen Shot 2023-11-21 at 2.31.22 pmAWST awst.io currently building WorkRamen workramen.com Make Work Simple. Achieve More with WorkRamen. Experience a new level of convenience with WorkRamen. Revolutionize your operations with enhanced security, streamlined processes, & simplified workflows for everyone in your organisation. WorkRamen: WORKPLACE PRODUCTIVITY. All-in-one business suite that boosts productivity & saves time. The platform empowers businesses & its employees to achieve more by simplifying day-to-day tasks. WorkRamen is a productivity platform for sales teams. A platform that helps founders & growth teams focus on selling & not spend time updating chunky CRMs & juggling multiple tools. Features incl. streamlining tasks like scheduling meetings, automated updates on collateral sent to clients, digital signing tools & conversational search on your sales documents with GenAI (Generative AI). ArtWallStreet Pte Ltd of UEN 202032492K, 7 Temasek Boulevard, #12-07 Suntec Tower One, Singapore 038987


box box.com @box online file sharing & cloud content management service offering storage, custom branding, & administrative controls. Simplify how you work. Platform for secure content management, workflow, & collaboration. The all-new Box Relay is available. A way to automate processes in Box. For the first time, enterprises have a single content management platform to drive team collaboration & streamline processes across the extended enterprise. Productivity & workflow tools usually fall on the extreme ends of the “how work gets done” spectrum: they’re either designed for ad-hoc collaboration or for rigid processes. Yet in today’s agile business, teams need both — a way to collaborate in real time, while also automating the manual work that’s done every day. 4-Feb-2021: Box Inc acquires Amsterdam’s e-signature startup, SignRequest for €45.6M. 10-Jul-2018: Box acquired Butter.ai for an undisclosed amount. Competes with Accellion, Dropbox, & ShareFile. San Francisco Bay Area, USA


Brandcast brandcast.com now timesites.com @brandcastapp No Code: code-free web content system. Create branded websites & content in a connected, design-driven system. Customizable. Engaging. Trackable. Discover the power of interactive sales collateral. Your prospects will love it & you can track their interactions from cold call to closing. Pitch decks, Sales proposals, Case studies, & Web brochures. Replacing static, slow-loading PDFs with interactive content is a new idea. Adding videos, demos, or showrooms to presentations livens up the pitch like nothing else. Going forward, you may have fewer live meetings where you can develop personal bonds with customers. That makes lively, engaging presentations more important than ever. Brandcast Salesforce Studio is an integration that allows a Salesforce user to automatically create a personalized website directly from a Salesforce Account or Opportunity record. The personalized website will pull content & data from Salesforce to create a personalized experience. All websites created from Salesforce can be updated in real-time & are automatically equipped with tracking metrics that allow a Salesforce user to see engagement activity directly from Salesforce. San Francisco, CA, USA.Screen Shot 2023-01-22 at 2.07.20 pm 30-Aug-2022: BRANDCAST IS NOW TIME SITES timesites.com We’ve joined iconic media brand TIME to deliver a more expansive platform for storytelling. The global media company TIME announced the acquisition of Brandcast, the leading no-code platform for creating and managing enterprise-grade websites.


Screen Shot 2021-04-09 at 3.03.35 pmBurst SMS burstsms.com @burstSMS global online messaging platform owned by “Known”. Easy-to-use online SMS platform with a focus on marketing, operations, & advanced SMS API solutions. Salesforce integration to send SMS from within Salesforce. Also Eloqua, Marketo, Oracle Responsys, Zoho CRM, Zapier.com, Autopilot, etc…


Screen Shot 2022-12-08 at 9.05.10 pmCacheflow getcacheflow.com @getcacheflow Sell more, Sell faster. With Flexible Payments. Simple, yet flexible deal close platform. Add a B2C-like checkout quality to your B2B deal close. Proposal to Cash: Automate & speed up every step of the proposal, close & payment process. Cacheflow’s modular platform can integrate with any part of your existing process to close deals faster & Screen Shot 2022-12-08 at 9.07.16 pmdeliver a superior buyer experience. Create interactive winning proposals in minutes. Traditional configure, price, quote tools are complicated & confusing. Cacheflow makes the complex simple. An easy quote-building editor & templates speed up sales. Behind the scenes, our powerful configuration tools support complex product catalogs, pricing flexibility, & approved legal docs. Don’t wait to send the invoice to collect payment. Customers often delay payment until they receive their invoice, & even then it’s a challenge to collect payment on time. Cacheflow prompts your customers to pay directly in the checkout experience. Offer your customers one-time or recurring credit card or ACH payment, with flexible billing & payment plans & support of usage-based billing models. Once the payment has been captured, billing details are synced with your ERP and/or your subscription management solutions. Los Altos, CA, USA


Canva canva.com @canva Canva Launches ‘Magic’ AI Tools for its Design Software. Graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, & more: Brand Kit, Make an infographic in minutes, not months, with Canva’s easy-to-use infographic creator. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a Screen Shot 2021-04-01 at 7.36.26 pmstock library of photographs, illustrations, & imagery. Real-time collaboration: Design with your team or co-presenters via a link or email, then comment, edit, & collaborate in real-time. Pre-record to present confidently, every time: With Canva, you don’t need a live audience to deliver great presentations. Add audio, or pre-record yourself talking over a presentation, then share your video to be viewed anytime, anywhere. Download “Talking Presentations” as MP4 videos. It’s excellent for capturing audiences beyond a one-time event. Established in 2012. Competes with Loom.com, Pitch.com, PicMonkey, Piktochart, & Adobe Systems. Sydney, NSW, Australia. 24-Apr-2018: Canva made its first acquisition by buying Sydney-based software company Zeetings (presentation platform that enables its users to combine their PowerPoints & PDFs with video, web content, images, & polls).


Checkbox checkbox.ai @CheckboxAI No-code Workflow & Automation Platform. Legal, risk & compliance automation platform. Triage Automation! Let Checkbox show you how to boost efficiency & where business users can request & access various services via an automated process. Sydney, NSW


Close close.com @close (also known as close.io or Elastic) inside sales CRM for startups & SMBs. Close more deals. Supercharge your sales with a CRM for startups & SMBs. Get pipeline view, calling, lead management, email automation, & more. Palo Alto, California, United States blog.close.com/sales-enablement & sales enablement toolkit


Conversr (powered by Burst SMS @burstsms; see above) conversr.com The next generation of customer engagement: A conversation control hub that enables you to manage the conversations you have with your customers by combining the powers of human logic & artificial intelligence. Personalized Conversations: Send & receive SMS. Flow Editor: Rapidly design & build custom solutions from our platform, or select one of our turn-key solutions to help you get started quickly. Reporting: Get reporting on key campaign metrics, including campaign goals & objective reporting. With primary business beginning in Australia & New Zealand, Burst SMS is now expanding rapidly globally.


Screen Shot 2022-03-27 at 10.47.21 amCooby cooby.co @JoinCooby unlock the power of conversations. Making WhatsApp your sales weapon. Bring visibility into customer conversations from your teams’ regular WhatsApp numbers with analytics, customer tracking & intelligence. Modernize your WhatsApp inbox with tabs, notes, reminders, social profile, calendar integration, etc. Cooby, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA


Screen Shot 2022-04-01 at 10.39.34 amDecktopus decktopus.com @decktopus create presentations, sales sheets, portfolios & many more with the auto-adjusted layouts in an extremely short time. Don’t waste time formatting. Focus on your content. Out of the ordinary presentation tool: Create not only presentations but also proposals, bio links (decktop.us your bio: Create a link connecting your audience to all your content! Seems to be aiming to become the linktree of b2b), sales funnels, forms & microsites. Prepare to embed forms, videos, websites & links to your slides. A fast & engaging business proposal & presentation creation tool for “No Code” creators & busy professionals. Palo Alto, CA, USA


Dropbox dropbox.com @Dropbox (acquired HelloSign) Dropbox for Business helps companies seamlessly collaborate with secure file sharing, access from anywhere, & robust admin controls. Acquired HelloSign hellosign.com @HelloSign Simplifying work for the businesses of tomorrow: HelloSign, HelloFax & HelloWorks. San Francisco, CA, US


Screen Shot 2022-04-24 at 2.35.38 pmFlockjay flockjay.com @flockjay equip your team with the best sales enablement tools. Sales enablement platform for sales teams everywhere. It’ll give your team the tools, content, & strategies they need. Purpose-built platform to create upward mobility for the sales rep of today. Empowers sales leaders to develop teams that share best practices & win together, even when everyone is remote. Learn & earn with best practices from peers & experts. Take control of your career with a platform designed for your professional growth. Upskill quicker: Don’t wait until your next review to see how you are doing. Let Flockjay guide you to your next learning opportunity & watch your skill set grow. Don’t go at it alone: A community of sales professionals at your back, to help you at each step of the way. Helps sales leaders unlock the potential of their entire sales team by capturing, organizing, & sharing best practices. Invest in your team members’ growth using internal & externally created content that propels your team members into their next role. Motivate your team with a virtual sales floor. Regardless of where your reps sit, bring them all together via a virtual sales floor to enable collaboration & team growth. Getting everyone on a remote team on the same page can be difficult at best. Connect your team & enable a collaborative peer-to-peer learning environment. Walnut, CA, US


Gather gathercustomers.com @GATHERcustomers Convert visitors to subscribers, to customers, to ambassadors. Combines Exit Intent email lead popups, customer-to-customer referral automation, and coupon distribution to boost your email list.” Create a lead referral campaign by incentivising your existing customers to refer their friends to your list. Sydney, NSW, Australia & New Zealand. Built by @elbahnasy (linkedin.com/in/izelbahnasy/)


Google: GCP Google Cloud Platform (G Suite / Drive / Docs / Sheets / Slides / Keep / Forms / Sites / Bard / Gemini / Google AI Studio / Google Cloud Vertex AI / programmablesearchengine.google.com) Alphabet Inc., Mountain View, California, USA


hatchbuck hatchbuck.com @hatchbuck all-in-one sales, CRM, & marketing automation software to help your business capture more leads & close more sales. Formerly known as Systematic Revenue, Inc. Changed its name to Hatchbuck in May 2013. Acquired by Benchmark Email Benchmarkone.com 10-Sep-2019. St. Louis, MO, USA


Hubspot hubspot.com @HubSpot inbound marketing & sales platform. hubspot.com/sales-enablement Sales enablement is the technology, processes, & content that empower sales teams to sell efficiently at a higher velocity. Sales Content Optimization: Contrary to common assumptions, marketers are not the only people producing content. In fact, in many companies, sales produces more content than marketing. Every minute a sale rep spends creating content is a minute they aren’t selling. The fact that salespeople take time to produce personalized content shows how important it is in the final stages of a buyer’s journey. Organize sales content: The first step in a sales enablement content strategy is a full content audit. NYSE: HUBS. Competes with Act-On Software, Marketo, & Pardot. Cambridge, MA, USA. Marketing software maker HubSpot Inc. hubspot.com @HubSpot announced 1-Nov-2023 it is acquiring the business data provider Clearbit clearbit.com @clearbit to enhance its data that will fuel the company’s AI capabilities.


Internal internal.io @Internal_io “Internal tools? You’ve got other things to build. Free up valuable engineering time to move your business forward with no-code internal tools.” No-code software that instantly connects the company’s data in useful, actionable ways while controlling access and protecting customer privacy. No-code customizations: Internal makes it easy for anyone to create custom internal tools. No SQL or Javascript knowledge required. From customer onboarding & customer service to data processing & on-demand operations, Internal helps teams do their jobs better. Used to say “Internal offers a tool that helps companies resolve customer issues.” Legal Name “Console Corp”. San Francisco, California, USA


involve.me involve.me stereosense GmbH (also known as brandquiz) @involvemeapp Make “no code” interactive content in minutes. Set up funnels with 2 minute landing pages, surveys & accept payments online. User engagement platform that helps businesses create personalized customer interactions. Engage Your Users With Interactive Content: Create personalized interactions at every step of the customer journey. Acquire & keep customers involved. involve.me is reimagining customer experience by allowing e-commerce shops & digital marketers to easily create personalized interactions at every step of the customer journey, so they can better acquire & keep customers involved. Vienna, Wien, Austria


Kbee kbee.app @tryKbee Knowledge Base Software. Kbee lets anyone create a searchable & branded knowledge base straight from Google Docs. Turn your content into a fast, searchable space for you, your team, or your customers. Create instantly: Turn your existing Google Drive folders & files into a professional knowledge base. Find answers quickly: Full-text search across all of your content. Match your brand: Customize your domain, logo, color schemes, & layout. Horatio, Inc. San Francisco, CA, USA


Screen Shot 2021-04-07 at 5.45.31 pmLoom loom.com @loom work communication tool that helps get your message across through instantly shareable video. Say it with video! Get your message across, no matter where you work. Sending a Loom is more efficient than typing long emails / spending your day in meetings having conversations that don’t need to happen in real time. You talk up to 6x faster than you type. Capture your screen, record the front-facing camera, & narrate video all at once with no switching apps or upload required. Whether it’s training new teammates or replying to a customer inquiry, Loom enhances the way people communicate at work by allowing them to send the next best thing to being there. Why sales teams use Loom: Improve outreach, accelerate sales cycles, optimize performance. Streamline onboarding. San Francisco, CA, US. Legal name Opentest, Inc. 13-Oct-2023: Atlassian to acquire video-messaging startup Loom Loom.com @Loom for $975M. Sydney, NSW, Australia


Screen Shot 2021-10-31 at 8.37.10 pmMeta meta.com @meta (Metaverse, Workplace by Facebook, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc) Workplace – marketed as Workplace from Facebook & formerly Workplace by Facebook: Online collaborative software tool developed by Meta Platforms. Menlo Park, California, USA


Screen Shot 2021-11-05 at 9.29.39 amMicrosoft microsoft.com @microsoft getting into the metaverse & its corporate version of the metaverse via Microsoft Teams & rolling out updates to Xbox consoles: Collectively known as Mesh: Combines the mixed-reality capabilities of Microsoft Mesh, people in different locations join collaborative & shared holographic experiences, with productivity tools of Microsoft Teams, where people can join virtual meetings, send chats, collaborate on shared documents etc. Microsoft has Loop as a Notion clone for Office:

“The Fluid Framework is coming to life as Microsoft Loop, a new Microsoft 365 application that takes collaboration beyond the traditional document”

Screen Shot 2021-11-05 at 9.56.53 amMicrosoft makes SharePoint, Microsoft CRM Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure the cloud computing service, owns Yammer / Skype / LinkedIn (PointDrive) PointDrive acquired by LinkedIn 26-Jul-2016 / LinkedIn Learning. 3-May-2012, LinkedIn acquired professional content sharing platform SlideShare for $119M. 8-Dec-2016, Microsoft & LinkedIn announced that Microsoft’s $26.2bn acquisition of LinkedIn, the social networking site, officially closed. 11-Aug-2020, LinkedIn sold the presentation-sharing service scribd scribd.com @Scribd Scribd Inc. began operating the SlideShare slideshare.net @SlideShare business on 24-Sep-2020.

Microsoft Office Delve: Cloud-based service powered by Office Graph, which helps users find & discover pertinent information across integrated Microsoft products by pulling user content from Microsoft Exchange, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint 2016 & Yammer. Greg Poirier of Cloudkettle says:

By @TheCoolestCool here: foundationinc.co/lab/the-saas-opportunity-of-unbundling-excel/

A simple Google search for “Excel Template” will show you the thousands of applications that spreadsheets offer us. And a quick visit to the Excel templates found on the Office 360 website will show you the plethora of templates and examples that are being turned into companies.

miro miro.com @miroHQ used to be known as Realtime Board (RealtimeBoard). 6-Mar-2019, they have a new name & brand identity: Miro, online collaborative whiteboard platform that enables distributed teams to work better together. Offers a collaborative whiteboard platform that is designed to allow distributed teams to work effectively together. Support includes running presentations / slides, brainstorming sessions & workshops to planning projects & designing new products & services. San Francisco, Bay Area, USA


Notion notion.so @NotionHQ all-in-one workspace – for notes, tasks, wikis, & databases. Note-taking & collaboration application for your notes, tasks, wikis, & databases. $11M in estimated revenue annually. Competes with Quip, Airtable, & Simplenote. San Francisco, CA, USA. Notion said 8-Sep-2021 it acquired Automate.io, an Indian startup that builds connectivity & integrations with 200+ services, as the workplace productivity startup looks to accelerate its product expansion to become more compelling for tens of millions of individuals & businesses that are increasingly moving to digital collaborative tools. The San Francisco-headquartered startup, last valued at $2Bn in private markets, said the acquisition of the Hyderabad-headquartered Automate will help Notion understand the know-how of — & leverage — the 200 integrations the Indian startup has developed to give users and enterprises alike the ability to bring their workflows into Notion.

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OscilloSoft oscillosoft.com.au @oscillosoft IT Consulting firm providing services across many platforms for SMB to enterprise clients. Specializes in CLOUD solutions like Zoho. Find out how you can use OscilloSoft’s BurstSMS extension with your @zohocrm to engage more with your clients! Sydney, NSW, Australia


OneMob OneMob.com @OneMob Personal, trackable & company branded video & voice messages tracked in Salesforce. Create a webpage of content, incl. videos, documents, website links & URLs, buttons, YouTube, & Social Media. Brand pages to match company branding. Real time chat directly with viewers. Upload any document: Import from Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or Evernote$1M in revenue annually & competes with BombBomb, JangoMail, & A2Stream Inc. San Francisco


Pegasystems pega.com @pega strategic applications for sales, marketing, service & operations that drive business agility for Global 2000 enterprises. Sales Content Management: Share, discuss, & work together on content for any sales situation. Intelligently guide B2B or B2C sales professionals & automate the sales process with Pega Sales & Onboarding. Cambridge, Mass., USA


Screen Shot 2022-01-18 at 9.24.43 amphantombuster.com @officialpbuster PhantomBuster opens a new era of Lead Generation. Automations & data extraction to help you grow faster. Sales people & Marketers shouldn’t need to code to be the best at their job. Phantom Buster is their toolbox to extract the data they need, automate actions & get the job done better & faster.


Pitch pitch.com @Pitch Pitch Software GmbH. Open platform for presentations & content collaboration. Improve the way presentations are crafted & knowledge is shared. Presentation tool & platform for students, teachers, creatives, managers, startups & teams everywhere. “With Slack & Front transforming business communication, Airtable & Coda disrupting Excel, & Sketch & Framer on a mission to break Photoshop’s monopoly, we saw innovation & thoughtful design resetting expectations & reimagining the user experience of complex business software. Yet, even with this shift, presentation tools have not kept pace with technology; we believe there needs to be something new, different & substantially better.” Software startup founded Jan-2018. Now $22.7M funding: Index Ventures, BlueYard, Slack Fund, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, Framer CEO Koen Bok, Elastic Co-Founder Simon Willnauer, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, Wunderlist-backer Frank Thelen & Metalab Founder Andrew Wilkinson. Their founding team created Wunderlist. $1M in revenue annually & competes with Prezi, Powtoon, & Slidebean. Berlin, Germany


Screen Shot 2022-06-30 at 11.39.15 amPitchloop pitchloop.io Manage The Loop: The pitch flows from Sales Marketing headquarters to salesperson who tweaks & practices at will. Data flows back to headquarters informing management of progress & guiding interaction. Pitchloop analyzes your verbal delivery in real-time, pin-pointing opportunities for honing your accuracy, prosody & pacing. Express the ideas of the pitch in your own words & get AI generated feedback on your personal version. Listen to your recordings for further reflection. Analyze your data to improve. Practice feedback is summarized as actionable insights. Managers can facilitate effective coaching by listening to any recording. Team leaders can drill down to details or zoom out to see & compare the progress of the whole team. Menlo Park, CA, USA. Pitchloop is a subsidiary of Shanenli LTD


Screen Shot 2022-03-10 at 2.07.29 pmPitch Pocket pitchpocket.io helps businesses talk to more people more often, by utilizing easily shared & trackable video content via mobile. Gives your sales team (on the floor in retail for example) quick access to vital content. Most importantly, it allows them to share it in a trackable way, so you always know exactly who is engaging with your content, & when. Increase Uptake of Promotions. Utilise Digital Business Cards. Stay Top of Mind With Key Accounts. Showcase Your Products. Sydney: Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia


Pobuca pobuca.com @siebenGR Transforming CRM to AI bots. Pobuca CRM suite of PobucaConnect, PobucaSales & PobucaLoyalty for brands & retailers. Sales, marketing & productivity software that helps brands & retailers grow in the fast-paced digital economy. Pobuca Sales is a mobile field-sales automation solution for sales representatives & merchandising auditors that enables you to achieve more sales per day, automate merchandising tasks & be more productive. $5M in estimated revenue annually & competes with Insightly, Spiro.AI, & SugarCRM. Athens, Greece & London, UK


Screenshot 2023-03-28 at 2.16.29 pmSalesTable.AI salestable.ai @salestable_ai All-in-one sales enablement platform for founder-led sales. Reduce Ramp Time. Close Deals Faster. Increase Revenue. Level up your sales team’s performance with our comprehensive onboarding, training & ongoing assessment. Track your team’s work with real-time data & analytics. Salestable.AI, Inc San Ramon, California, USA


Screen Shot 2023-01-25 at 3.08.56 pmPod workwithpod.com @PodWorkspace Supercharge your enterprise sales team with Pod’s intelligent hub. Less time wasted on guessing, more on doing. The Smart Workspace for Sales Teams. Remove the noise. Close more deals. You shouldn’t waste time digging through all your sales tools. Focus on what matters & hit your quota every month with the only all-in-one productivity workspace, built for you. Pod is the all-in-one workspace for B2B sales teams. Work 10x faster every day. Seamlessly collaborate on deals, quickly update your CRM, and intuitively track your task, notes, & more. Pod Chrome Extension: You probably jump between 15 different tools daily, wasting time updating your Salesforce or looking for information your need. You shouldn’t have to work in Excel, OneNote, or Trello. It’s time for a productivity tool built for sellers. Pod is a smart productivity workspace for account executives. It’s your new command center. Pod Technologies, Inc. San Francisco, CA, USA


Screen Shot 2022-01-28 at 9.28.28 amPostBeyond postbeyond.com @postbeyond cloud-based employee engagement & advocacy platform that enables employees & partners to post approved brand content to their personal networks in an efficient, consistent, & measurable way. $9M in revenue? PostBeyond Inc. Toronto, ON, Canada. 8-Dec-2021 Influitive Inc influitive.com @influitive (also Toronto, ON, Canada) acquired PostBeyond for an undisclosed amount.


Screen Shot 2022-03-02 at 9.03.53 amFormer Practice Ignition practiceignition.com now ignitionapp.com @ignitionapp eliminate debtors & fully automate client onboarding. Proposal to paid – in one place! Eliminate the friction by sending your clients a single smart proposal they can read, sign, & make a payment on in one sitting. That’s more closed deals for you and less back & forth for everyone. Create intelligent proposals that trigger workflows, automate your back office & increase conversions. No more word docs, email trails, or data duplication. Software that facilitates proposals, payments, insights, scope management, & integrations. Competes with Jetpack Workflow, Capium Ltd, & Canopy. Sydney, NSW, Australia


Process Street process.st @processstreet document, track, automate & optimize customer-centric processes. Help sales & customer success teams drive revenue & reduce churn. “The home for your team’s recurring tasks. Create, track & optimize business process workflows.” SaaS platform that lets non-technical teams create powerful, API driven workflows. They don’t seem to compete with Zapier, but integrate with your Zapier account. San Francisco, USA, but many roots in Sydney, Australia


Screen Shot 2021-10-22 at 9.41.05 amQuestmate questmate.com @QuestmateApp No Code. Making work simple, rewarding & consistent. Define a specific reward/incentive to be paid out / accessed right at the end of the workflow / job / task. In that sense almost a NoCode Smart Contract. Engaging Workflows. For teams of any type, size & mission. Team onboarding, training, tasks, etc. The simplicity of to-do lists 9G7dlbJj_400x400with straightforward guidance & powerful integrations of external systems & applications. Enabling you to build empowering workflows that connect the what to the how. Also perfect for Customer Onboarding, Staff Onboarding & Surveys. Register for BETA access. Avalon Beach, Sydney, NSW, Australia. (Full disclosure: I’m an angel investor)

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Qwilr qwilr.com @Qwilr Pitch with confidence & win more work. Quickly create beautiful & intuitive proposals, sales & marketing documents. Whether you’re creating internally or sharing externally, Qwilr allows you to build document processes that are fast & easy-to-adopt. Set up your brand once, and it’ll update everywhere. Ensure consistency across all of your documents by setting up your colours, fonts & templates so your team is always on brand. Streamline your sales process: Remove the hassle for clients, & start working & earning faster. Integrate with CRMs, accounting tools & more. Integrate with other tools you love: Integrate Qwilr with the CRM, accounting, live chat & analytics tools. Understand your clients better: Track & analyze how your sales & marketing material is browsed. Be notified when your document is first viewed, see how many times it was viewed & what sections your customer actually cared about. Analytics features. Competes with PandaDoc, Bidsketch, & Proposable. Sydney, NSW


Screen Shot 2022-03-19 at 5.56.13 pmSaleo saleo.io @getSaleo Sales Demo Personalization: Software sales is hard enough – don’t let generic demos or bad data interfere with winning deals. Create incredible, personalized demos at scale for your team. Build the perfect demo that tells the right story across any vertical, pain point, or user case. Replicate success across all go-to-market teams with ease (Sales, Solutions Consultants, & Product Marketing). Atlanta, GA, USA. Saleo, Inc.


Screen Shot 2023-02-09 at 8.44.28 amSmartCue getsmartcue.com @getSmartCue Personalized Product Demos. Create personalized demos for EVERY prospect. Deliver tailored demos to help you win more deals! SmartCue enables teams to create personalized, contextual product demo libraries for their prospect demos. Visual & textual cues show up in real-time from your library when you are demoing to your prospects. Launched a Chrome Extension. Only supports web apps as of now. Mobile & CRM integrations are coming soon. SmartCue Inc. Denver, CO, USA


Screen Shot 2023-02-06 at 9.41.23 amSalesforge salesforge.ai @franksondors Salesforge – The only sales execution platform you’ll ever need. All-in-one sales execution platform for B2B Sales. Get 30%–60% more demos while lowering cost by 20%-40% Forging a unified sales engine to replace point solutions, powered with AI: Consolidate your sales stack. Reduce cost per rep. Drive more revenue. V. Frank Sondors is the founder of Salesforge.io in Germany


Screen Shot 2023-01-27 at 12.16.49 pmSalesmachine (Drucker) usesalesmachine.com @usesalesmachine Revolutionizing sales demos with AI technology! Salesmachine is a sales demo editor powered by OpenAI GPT. “Because Salespeople are Rockstars: Salesmachine empowers anybody to create within minutes the most exciting & informative product demos the market has ever seen. Share winning demos with your clients. Know more, show the product and miracles will happen.” app.usesalesmachine.com/login Drucker allows your sales team to share interactive demos with clients. chrisstrobl.com “My new startup Salesmachine. I’m the CTO & Co-Founder of Salesmachine. More soon.” Built with Webflow, Bubble & Figma. Started sometime just before 25-Nov-2022. Palo Alto, CA, USA. German founder.


Screen Shot 2023-02-10 at 12.33.32 pmSalesRiver salesriver.com all-in-one sales platform for distributed teams. Acquire, route, sell, manage. Capture in-market consumers wherever, whenever & however you need them – your own sources or ours. INTELLIGENT ROUTING: Eliminate manual processes. Deliver each prospect to the right person every time – with lightning-fast automations. SALES ENABLEMENT: Bring a powerful suite of tools to your salespeople. Efficiently sell every type of lead with built-in compliance. SALES MANAGEMENT: Transparency combined with layered controls provides you with a customizable, all-in-one platform that maximizes results. Leadrilla Inc (doing business as SalesRiver) Lexington, Kentucky, United States


Seidat seidat.com @SeidatApp cloud-based slide deck platform that enables creating interactive slide decks for any occasion & easily sharing them with your team & customers. Gives you the opportunity to manage all your slide decks on one platform. Keeping your material up-to-date & according to your brand for all your team members has never been this easy. Presentation platform for teams. Create, edit, present & share interactive presentations within the same app. Sell more efficiently with navigable pitch decks, save time with updates by using Smart slide, keep your brand consistent in all slide decks with brand & team management. KEEP YOUR TEAM’S PITCH DECKS UP TO DATE: Any changes made within a team are visible to all. You no longer have to worry about everyone having the most recent presentation materials. Seidat’s cloud does that for you. Team collaboration is easy when everyone always gets the latest materials automatically. Presentation platform for teams. Create, edit, present & share interactive presentations within the same app. $99.4K in estimated revenue annually. Helsinki, Finland


Screen Shot 2022-02-24 at 5.48.26 pmSizle sizle.io @sizle_io all-in-one document collaboration & analysis toolkit used in 150+ countries. No matter what you’re sharing, ensure the right files are sent to the right people at the right time. Seeing how much time prospects spend on each slide of a presentation a helps us optimize all of our sales & marketing collateral. […] find the concept of using a presentation together with a lead capture workflow genius, I use Sizle when I need to send a document to a new prospect. Sizle Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Australia


Slack slack.com/intl/en-au/solutions/sales @slackhq enterprise software platform that allows teams & businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively. Hub for your sales management process: From research to pitch decks to contracts, Slack is where sales happens. Sales teams use Slack for: COMMUNICATION, AUTOMATION, TEAM-BUILDING, HANDOFFS. SF, CA, USA. Slack acquired by Salesforce 1-Dec-2020. Combining @SlackHQ with @Salesforce Customer360 “will be transformative, creating the operating system for the new way to work. Together, we’ll enable companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world.” Slack shareholders will receive an enterprise value of approx. $27.7Bn based on the closing price of Salesforce’s common stock on 30-Nov-2020.


Screen Shot 2022-07-03 at 3.03.03 pmSnackwyze snackwyze.com @snackwyze Interactive click-through demo automation platform for product-led teams. Create interactive product experiences from screen recordings in seconds. Great for SaaS walkthroughs, product tours, software demos, how-to guides & more! SUPER SIMPLE SELF-SERVICE DEMO AUTOMATION: Scale Presales Simply. Snackwyze is for Presales teams who want to keep it simple. Record your screen & see interactive clickthrough demos come to life in seconds. Enable buyers with interactive, self-service experiences you can create simply with a drag&drop code free editor. Discover additional key stakeholders organically, understand their preferences better & close deals in record time. CONSISTENT BUYER ENABLEMENT: Are you reinforcing your prospect’s trust throughout their buying journey? Snackwyze for product & growth marketing: Show, don’t tell! Avoid Pre-mature demo meetings, guide your prospects to “Aha” moments instantly, connect prospects to the right sales experts when ready. California, USA


tray.io tray.io @tray integrate your entire stack with this general automation platform. Empower your workforce with automated processes & integrate your cloud stack to work in real time. Automate your organization without taxing development resources. Turn your team into citizen automators. Marketing: Improve marketing efficiency and scale growth like never before. Lead list uploads, Personalized email, Lead scoring & routing, Data enrichment, Happy customer detection. Sales: Stream buying signals & sales updates directly to sales reps. RFP Process, Alerting, Approval process, Sales Enablement, Swag automation. tray.io, inc. San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US


Uberflip uberflip.com @uberflip helps marketers create, manage, & optimize content experiences at every stage of the buyer journey – without relying on IT. Use Uberflip to power your: Company Blog, Resource Center, Content Library, Sales Enablement. Streamline content management, accelerate lead generation, & fuel marketing automation. Toronto, Canada


Screen Shot 2022-04-15 at 9.12.34 pmVideo Marketing Center VMC vmcglobal.io videomarketing.center video distribution platform with integrated functionality that drives revenue, engagement & collects extensive customer insights. Platform that makes it easy for companies & organizations to communicate & deliver a consistent, branded message via multiple videos, make it easy for them to increase their customer reach, make their distributors & channel partners successful, gather great insight data with our micro-training, surveys & polling features & overall analytics that we capture. Make It Easy for Distributors, Channel Partners & Marketers To Sell More of Your Products! Deliver a consistent branded message, increase your customer reach, enable external selling partners, improve engagement & gather customer insights seamlessly in one platform. Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. VMC Global LLC


Screen Shot 2023-03-25 at 8.46.48 pmVisme visme.co @VismeApp your all-in-one platform for creating presentations, documents, data visualizations, videos & other branded content. Collaborative design platform, empowering anyone to create professional presentations, data visualizations, videos & more. Visme’s newest app integration – Salesforce: With Visme & Salesforce, users can manage & streamline the creation process of their sales content & deliverables by instantly populating dynamic fields in the materials with Salesforce data, & applying account personalizations – improving efficiency & accuracy across sales teams. The two platforms seamlessly work in tandem to create personalized, engaging, design-forward materials that look like they came out of a graphics department. Your team can gain insights into how audiences are viewing content after it’s sent, removing the guesswork on what’s compelling to your viewers, & optimizing your follow-up strategy. Sales Enablement Materials: Design product comparisons, case studies, printables, direct mail content & more to help sell your products & services to prospective clients. Washington D.C., USA


Screen Shot 2022-03-18 at 4.07.00 pmVocal vocal.to @vocal_inc Camily camily.io @CamilyHQ simple user-generated video platform. Let your customers, employees, & community power your video content. Capture user-generated HD videos from customers – & turn them into beautiful videos to publish & share anywhere. USER-GENERATED VIDEO TESTIMONIAL SOFTWARE: Video testimonial software, 100% free. With just a few clicks, capture user-generated video testimonials from customers & turn them into beautiful videos to publish & share anywhere – no coding required! Let your customers power your video marketing. Forget expensive, complicated & lengthy testimonial video production. Collect video submissions & produce production-grade testimonial videos with HD video testimonial software. Los Angeles, California, USA


WebinarNinja webinarninja.com @WebinarNinja Not just a webinar platform. A complete marketing, training and sales system. “All in the cloud. Your attendees can join your webinar with any web browser, on desktop or any mobile device. There is no need for them to download or install any software. It couldn’t it be faster or easier for them to attend your webinars.” Sydney


Weld pivoted to weld.app weld.io weldyourownapp.com interactive content in minutes – Create visual, animated, interactive content on your website. “No Code”: BE CREATIVE WITHOUT CODE. Allows you to create visual, animated, interactive content on your existing website. No need for developers or agencies. Be more flexible, work faster, save money. Stockholm, Sweden / Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Wistia wistia.com @wistia video hosting built for business. Share internal or private videos: Selectively set permissions so you can securely share internal videos & collaborate with your team. Collect feedback on your videos: Share videos & analytics with the rest of your team (or clients), & collect their feedback with time-coded comments. Cambridge, MA


Zoho zoho.com @Zoho suite of business, collaboration, & productivity applications. 30+ online applications from CRM to mail, office suite, project management, invoicing, email marketing, social media management, & more. Sales & Marketing: Give your sales team the perfect set of apps to help close more business deals in less time. Email & collaboration: Empower your workforce with apps to collaborate & transform the way they work. Custom solutions: Simplify complex business processes with apps that will make your team’s work easier. Founded 1996. Founder Sridhar Vembu. Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd.; $310M (estimated revenue). Development headquarters in Chennai, India. HQ Pleasanton, California, US


List of New Zealand based Sales Enablement companies

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My own list of New Zealand based Sales Enablement / Channel Enablement companies, last updated 30-Apr-2024.


Brandkit brandkit.io @BrandkitHQ Beautifully simple brand & image management. DAM. Find, manage & distribute your brand content, at scale. NZ


Screen Shot 2022-08-12 at 10.13.44 amFocia focia.io @focia_io Digital content management made easy. Predict the popularity of your content. We predict what works – before you post it. Enables you to post the best content, providing cutting-edge tools all-in-one platform. Content creation: All the tools needed to create. Scheduler: Optimise your post scheduling. Performance prediction: Predict engagement with accuracy. Predict engagement: Predict the engagement of your posts. Analysis: Compare against competitors. Brand tracker: Compare performance against competitors. Built on powerful machine learning tech. Our predictive models are built using reinforcement learning techniques that outperform humans. Our models at your fingertips. The Focia API can be integrated with existing systems with ease (coming soon). By Three Thirty Labs, Inc. threethirtylabs.com New Zealand / Australia


Gather gathercustomers.com @GATHERcustomers Convert visitors to subscribers, to customers, to ambassadors. The only tool that combines Exit Intent email lead popups, customer-to-customer referral automation, and coupon distribution to boost your email list. Create a lead referral campaign by incentivising your existing customers to refer their friends to your list. Sydney, NSW, Australia & New Zealand. Built by @elbahnasy (linkedin.com/in/izelbahnasy/)


Screenshot 2023-04-04 at 1.14.54 pmPreviewMe previewme.com Capture video testimonials that can be easily shared is the ultimate social proof a business can obtain primarily because: Your customers become your brand ambassadors reducing your marketing cost & cost of customer acquisition. Raw & authentic videos from customers build infinitely better trust & rapport with prospective customers than text ever will. One video tool for your whole team. AMS Verified. Video comms tool for Sales & Marketing teams. Bring your email signature to life with video! PreviewMe makes onboarding a simple & more personal experience. “Preview Me” enables thousands of businesses worldwide to create & share videos to supercharge outreach efforts & stand out from the competition. “PreviewMe Business”: Amplify your sales capabilities. Personalise your cold outreach with a video introduction; Onboard employees, pitch to clients & promote jobs; Bring your email signature to life with personalised video; Request & receive video job applications. With more human connections earlier in the sales cycle that drive click-throughs, demos & conversions are through the roof. Previews are easily shareable with GIF thumbnails within emails & can increase CTR by 96% with the inclusion of video. Auckland, NZ


Screen Shot 2023-01-07 at 6.16.55 pmQotient (Now SalesAction as of the end of 2021? Then shut down / out of business as of 2022?) SalesAction Inc. salesaction.com Start Selling More: Drive sales, convert more, & increase sales productivity & outreach with a comprehensive suite of sales tools. Formerly known as Qotient Qotient.com @Qotient founded 2013. Transform Channel Sales Engagement: Whether it’s a cross-selling campaign, new product launch, or driving lead generation, achieve the next level in Channel growth through partners, as they sell to new & existing customers, with a digital platform built specifically to address the challenges of selling in the Channel. CHANNEL SALES INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE. Helps businesses have the right face-to-face sales conversation with their customers. Cloud-based sales acceleration platform accessible from any device, anytime, anywhere. Delivers a library of sales conversations including insights, sales questions, & supporting marketing collateral into the hands of the sales team. Sales teams then use these conversations to assist them in converting sales calls into opportunities. crunchbase.com/organization/qotient San Francisco, California, US & Auckland, New Zealand. Qotient Group Limited / QOTIENT INC


Showcase Workshop (Showcase Software Limited) showcaseworkshop.com @showcaseworks Has customers all over the world. The Showcase Presentation app is free & available for iOS, Android, Windows 8 & web browser viewing option so you can present the same information across your tablets, smartphones & computers. Turn your files into a mobile toolkit with a custom-designed interface to match your style-guide. Field-based teams can share any approved file, right from their tablet & see when it was downloaded. Real-time information on the usage of the app by field-based teams. Wellington, New Zealand


Screen Shot 2023-05-04 at 8.29.34 pmTotara totara.com totaralearning.com @totaralearning open source learning technologies company. Totara TXP = Talent Experience Platform. Totara Learn is a flexible, open learning management system (LMS) that gives organizations the freedom to learn. Deliver training & performance appraisals anywhere, anytime. Improve engagement, ensure compliance & achieve breakthrough results across your organization & extended enterprise. Open-source learning platform: Fully customizable, enabling you to make it your own. Integrate & extend to suit your timescale & business needs. Take full control of your content, performance management, learning management, platform configuration & reporting. 11-Jun-2020, Five V Capital acquired Totara Learning Solutions. Wellington, New Zealand