InsideView Raises $11.5 Million For Enterprise-Friendly Web Crawler

Leena Rao

Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

InsideView, a service that mashes up social data for enterprises to increase sales productivity has raised $11.5 million in Series B financing led by current investors Emergence Capital Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Greenhouse Capital Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to $25 million.

The company’s flagship product, SalesView, crawls through more than 20,000 web sites, social networks and databases including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Hoovers, Reuters, and SEC filings, to give businesses sales intelligence and information that will aid sales operations with helping develop and maintain leads and clients.

SalesView is available as a stand-alone Web application as well as integrated with CRM vendors like SugarCRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and SalesForce.com. In fact, SalesView is ranked as one of the most popular free apps on SalesForce’s App Exchange. The service currently has over 10,000 users with more than 1,700 companies that access SalesView’s feed, including Ariba, Centive, Cisco/WebEx, JobScience, and SuccessFactors.

The new financing will be used to for new customer acquisitions and for further product development. Competitors include Hoovers and Genius.

Company: InsideView
Website: insideview.com
Launch Date: 2005
Funding: $37.4M

InsideView is a Sales 2.0 leader, bringing insights gained from traditional editorial sources and emerging social media to the enterprise to increase sales productivity and velocity. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California with a development office in Hyderabad, India. Operations: InsideView’s core product, SalesView, is a sales intelligence solution. It is available as a stand-alone Web application as well as integrated with CRM vendors like Salesforce.com, Oracle CRM On Demand, NetSuite CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM, and Landslide Technologies. InsideView’s...

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