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Corporate360, a Singapore based big data startup, has raised $200,000 in angel funding from seed investors. The funds will be used to launch a new marketing data product & expand the company’s data science and sales teams.
Founded in 2012, Corporate 360 is a cloud-based B2B marketing data software provider. The company offers B2B marketing data & IT sales intelligence data services to over 300 global customers including Dell, HP, Oracle, Cognizant, IBM and VMware. The company plans to release a new SaaS-based B2B marketing campaign product and mobile applications of their products by mid-2015.
The Company is also constructing a technology park in Kerala, India with manpower of 50. The 25-person office currently in use will be converted into staff living space and the new office facilities are expected to be operational by June 2015. “This will result in saving on operating costs and increase company assets in the long run and hence allow them to better support their employees and innovation plans,” tells Ashish Mandirathil, Director at Corporate360.
Corporate360 grew into a multi-million dollar business within three years as a bootstrapped venture. The company claims to be profitable in 5 countries with a team size of 30 executives and its revenues had grown from revenue (first year) of $250k to a million dollar mark in just three years.
Corporate360 also recently hired two new senior team members: an Enterprise Sales Director and a CTO. The company in discussions with 10 engineering colleges and partnered with ICT Academy of Kerala to partner on campus drives to hire 20 engineers and 50 interns in Singapore and India this year.
The platform covers company profile, contact intelligence, organisation charts, tech install info, competitive intelligence, predictive analytics, sales triggers & social data through a low cost Data-as-a-Service model. Company’s SaaS model is unique and innovative delivering high value for customers, ensuring highest level of data accuracy, ongoing data maintenance and real-time updates.
As part of their social mission to bring IT jobs to rural towns in India, Corporate360 opened its first “data factory” office in Pathanapuram, a tier-2 town in Kerala, employing 30 data science and software engineers.
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