Yesterday, a high profile accelerator Angelpad open doors to the investors and media to showcase its companies Only one of them, Estonian Pipedrive comes from Eastern Europe.
Pipedrives innovate CRM tools. The founders of Pipedrive Timo Rein and Urmas Purde, sales people themselves, do not believe none of the existing CRM applications solves a salesman’s problem: closing the deals.
A sofisticated CRM system, purchased for 50 000 euros but not used, gave way to post-it notes, a colourful tombstone to the wasted money.
The format of how the deals were looked at in VAIN & Partners became a dominant theme of Pipedrive, the cloud-based deal management tool, used by over 340 paying customers. Here is how it looks now.
You can read more about the product and its competitors it in my post on TechCrunch Europe.