![]() ![]() Its website is full of statements like: "Salesforce is a great database, but as a place to do your work it's slow to load, requires too many clicks and countless browser tabs." Scratchpad's pitch is to emphasise how difficult Salesforce is when it comes to sales data wrangling. Salesforce might be distracted by forking out $28bn for workplace social platform Slack or figuring out the integration points from an earlier $15.7bn merger with data-viz biz Tableau. While Salesforce might welcome Scratchpad's efforts to improve the salesperson's experience, it's hard to see Scratchpad's progress as anything other than a slight against Salesforce's usability, something the $200bn market cap SaaS giant has long boasted of. We had plenty of runway, but we started to see a lot of bottom-up user growth, this bottom-up motion just really started to take hold." ![]() "To be honest, it actually wasn't on our radar to raise again so soon after we raised what I consider a substantial seed. Showing staggering nonchalance, he later bragged to Techcrunch that he wasn't even really looking for the money. "While the new capital itself is important for our ability to invest in product development to make Scratchpad even better and faster for our users, the truly exciting part is the opportunity to partner with the best folks in the industry on our journey," founder and CEO Pouyan Salehi fizzed. In a blog, the business equivalent to the suckerfish announced new funding led by David Sacks at Craft Ventures, with Accel continuing to participate after leading its seed round last year. Scratchpad, a startup based around easing Salesforce data input, has snared $13m in new funding, apparently without even really wanting to. ![]()
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