BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cintell, a customer intelligence platform used by companies to better understand their buyers, today announced that it has closed $800,000 in a Seed round of financing. The round was led by angel investor and entrepreneur Venkat Janapareddy, whose startup Gozaik was acquired by Monster Worldwide. The financing will be used to fuel product development, hiring, and user acquisition as the company continues to execute on an aggressive roadmap of planned features and functionality.
The announcement comes shortly after the company formally revealed its plans to bring buyer personas and customer intelligence to the cloud in early 2015. In that time, the team has expended to seven cross-functional individuals including a team of engineering resources and CTO, Data Scientist Shyam Vaidhyanathan to oversee technology operations. The company has also added marketing consultant Samantha Stone as an advisor to help Cintell clients formulate successful buyer intelligence strategies.
Cintell has also opened a downtown Boston office location, and earned local traction as finalists for Boston’s Best Startup award from Tech in Motion and the Babson B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought and Action®) Challenge. It also today announced open positions in customer success and engineering in Boston. More detail on career opportunities can be found at www.cintell.net/jobs
“The ability to continually understand buyers in ever-changing markets is such an important pressure facing B2B organizations today,” said Richard April, SVP of Marketing at Repsly. “This funding puts Cintell in a great position to disrupt the marketing technology space by giving marketers the tools to address this issue.”
The Cintell customer intelligence platform is currently being tested by customers in a private, invite-only beta. To request an invitation as either an end-user company or marketing agency, please visit http://cintell.net/beta-request
