‘All-in-one’ gross sales tech platform FlashIntel raises $10 million

As companies brace for a slowing world financial system, they’re in search of avenues to streamline budgets, together with trimming their SaaS bills. Gross sales tech, particularly, is understood for being fragmented with an array of extremely specialised options. That’s why Yi Shi began FlashIntel with an formidable objective: provide an all-in-one gross sales platform to consolidate the gross sales tech stack.

“As a substitute of shopping for 5 licenses, you would possibly simply solely want one now,” Shi advised TechCrunch in an interview. By decreasing the variety of gross sales options, companies save on not solely software program however coaching prices as a result of they’ve fewer tech platforms to introduce to their employees.

FlashIntel claims to assist the end-to-end gross sales cycle — from lead intelligence, gross sales engagement, e-mail verification, mailbox warmup, to auto-dialing. Such an built-in platform that may probably substitute functionalities of the likes of ZoomInfo and Salesforce sounds too good to be true, however some traders are satisfied.

FlashIntel lately closed a $10 million seed funding spherical from traders together with Celtic Home Enterprise Companions, Uphonest Capital, Hat-Trick Capital. Based solely final yr, the startup now employs round 100 individuals — fairly a giant headcount contemplating its “five-digit” registered consumer base and “three-digit” paid clients.

As a fourth-time founder who’s taken one firm public in China, grown one other to unicorn valuation and bought the final one, Shi is assured in FlashIntel’s all-inclusive, modular strategy. A key differentiator of the platform, in response to Shi, is its auto-dialer which may allow a salesman to make 400-500 calls a day, ten occasions greater than conventional dialers in response to Shi.

For the reason that connection charge is nearly 5-7%, it means an individual utilizing FlashIntel may have one dwell dialog each 20 calls they make. Gross sales calls are mainly a quantity recreation, stated the founder.

The “key to doing software program gross sales is what number of dwell conversations a salesman can have with potential clients,” he added.

The opposite core energy of FlashIntel is what Shi calls “intent-based promoting.” The platform tracks potential clients’ procurement intent via indicators like recruitment updates, a web site’s altering tech stack, and content material an organization posts and subjects it discusses on social media. When a shopper exhibits an intent of shopping for new software program, FlashIntel then tells the seller to strategy them.

FlashIntel doesn’t purpose to construct all the pieces itself and has built-in with different main CRM via their APIs, which customers pays for individually.

“Each business goes via a cycle the place “lengthy union should result in separation and lengthy separation should result in a reunion,” stated Shi. “In the end, there must be a wholesome stability. As an example, to what extent ought to one undertake the “multi function” strategy?”

With groups within the U.S., Canada, India and Malaysia, FlashIntel has lately appointed a former Salesforce and ZoomInfo government as its vp of gross sales.

Other than saving prices, FlashIntel additionally needs to assist increase clients’ revenues. To that finish, Shi, a solo founder, turned his entrepreneurial experiences into biggest practices as a part of the startup’s consulting service for enterprises.