• Umbel

  Led · Series B · Nov 2015

  Umbel offers a Customer Data Platform built around a digital engine called Digital Genome® that brings together data across silos and marketing execution systems into a unified, actionable customer platform. The company was founded in 2010 by HO Maycotte, who serves as CEO. Umbel's platform is designed to help businesses unify and access their own customer data to improve decision making. In November 2015 the company raised growth capital to support expansion; it intends to use the funds to expand sales and marketing efforts, accelerate technical innovation and examine potential acquisition opportunities. Leadership changes tied to the financing include Lisa Harris of Cielo Private Equity joining Umbel's Board of Directors. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article. Umbel builds digital audience measurement solutions that leverage social data to deliver insights about the people who engage with any site, service or brand. Its products and services target broad industry applications including sports, news, politics and entertainment. The company was founded in 2010 and is currently in private beta. Umbel says it will use recently raised funds to execute on its product roadmap and further business development goals. It expects to bring its first product to market in Q3 of 2012. In conjunction with the financing, Paul Krasinski joined Umbel as CEO and Seth Goldstein and Thomas Ball joined the board.

• Gravitant

  Led · Series B · Nov 2014

  Gravitant offers a cloud brokerage and multi-cloud management platform delivered as SaaS, with its cloudMatrix product for planning, buying, managing and brokering cloud services. The platform is designed to move organizations from a slow service-ticket model to an agile design-to-order model, improving time-to-value from months to minutes and reducing IT costs by as much as 50%, per the company. Gravitant positions itself as a leader in the enterprise cloud brokerage and management market and is used by some of the largest enterprises in the country. The company plans to use new funding to expand sales and marketing to meet growing customer demand and to extend the capabilities of its platform to target new customer segments. Management emphasizes enabling CIOs to deliver business-unit agility while retaining IT safeguards. Gravitant is described as a leading software company in the enterprise cloud brokerage and management market. Its core product is the cloudMatrix cloud brokerage and multi-cloud management platform, which the company positions as an IT‑as‑a‑Service solution for large enterprises. The platform enables users to select, procure, consume, and manage cloud services, shifting from a slow service‑ticket model to an agile design‑to‑order model. Gravitant says cloudMatrix improves time‑to‑value from months to minutes and can slash IT costs by up to 50%. The company plans to use the new funding to expand sales and marketing and to extend cloudMatrix capabilities to satisfy new customer segments. Gravitant is based in Austin, Texas and aims to grow as a major software company in the market.

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