Salesloft
| File:SalesLoft Logo.png | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Sales Intelligence |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder | Kyle Porter, Tim Dorr, Rob Forman, David Cummings |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | 'Kyle Porter, Tim Dorr, Rob Forman, David Cummings |
| Products | Sales Intelligence Stream |
| Website | www |
SalesLoft is a sales intelligence software company based in Atlanta, Georgia. The company was founded in September 2011 and was awarded the honor of Top 10 Innovative Technology companies in Georgia in March 2012.
The founders, Kyle Porter and David Cummings, met at Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center and incorporated SalesLoft in September 2011. SalesLoft’s sales intelligence offering is a software-as-a-service that seamlessly integrates with customer relationship management (CRM) applications.
Products and Services
- SalesLoft Basic offers job change alerts on executive connections for sales professionals.
- SalesLoft Professional offers custom news search alerts, job changes, prospect ranking, and technology scraping.
- SalesLoft Professional adds features such as Salesforce.com integration for closed-loop automated sales research.
- SalesLoft Enterprise adds further features like browser plug-ins and a mobile application.
- Training and consulting services.
Strategy
SalesLoft is based on the idea that sales intelligence or automated sales research handed to business sales professionals will enable them to spend less time on each sales cycles and close more deals over time. Their products help customers collect and utilize internet data sources such as social media, blogs, advertising spend, news sources, technologies used.
Community
SalesLoft is a sponsor of B2BCamp, an unconference and community for B2B sales and marketing professionals.
Awards
In February 2012, SalesLoft was awarded as one of the winners of Startup Riot, one of the largest startup events in the Southeastern US. In March, SalesLoft was awarded as one of the top 40 most innovative technology companies in GA by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). A few weeks later, SalesLoft was promoted to one of the Top 10 Technology Companies in Georgia. SalesLoft was accepted into the national accelerator program TechStars in March 2012 & was a finalist in the Business Launch Competition for the Technology Association of Georgia in May 2012.
Technology
SalesLoft Sales Intelligence Software is written in Ruby, using the Rails framework and MySQL database, runs on Linux Ubuntu servers. The apps run in the Amazon EC2 Cloud. Other tools are written in a mixture of Python, Java, and PHP and run on MySQL and Apache at Amazon EC2.