CRM startup DevRev has emerged from stealth mode with $50mn in seed funding, the company announced.
Headed by Dheeraj Pandey, co-founder and former CEO of cloud computing company Nutanix, alongside co-founder Manoj Agarwal, former Nutanix SVP of engineering, the company’s solution is targeted at closing the gap between developers and customers.
"Today, every company is a software company, yet we isolate developers (dev) from customers and revenue (rev)," said DevRev CEO Pandey. "By removing the bureaucracy between makers and consumers — with APIs, design, and an opinionated engagement model — we will empower devs to create customer-conscious products and businesses. That's our mission: bring dev and rev together!"
Bringing Developers Closer to Customers
DevRev said the solution would enable developers to communicate and collaborate with customers in real-time by eliminating siloed systems, allowing developers to connect code to customer interactions in a single environment.
"Being product builders ourselves, Dheeraj and I have both felt the pain in leaving developers in the back-office," said DevRev co-founder Agarwal. "With a headless dev-centric CRM vision, we are looking to bring developers to the forefront of decision-making and real-time customer collaboration."
DevRev said it was working with early adopters before the product would become generally available in 2022, and that it had built a distributed 75-strong team across Austin, Bangalore, Ljubljana and San Francisco. Among its investors are Mayfield Fund and Khosla Ventures.
