| Website | yesware.com |
| Blog | yesware.com/blog |
| @yesware | |
| Category | Enterprise |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 7/10 |
| Description | Email for Salespeople |
| TOTAL | $1M |
| VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL | $1M |
| Venture Round, 9/11 Google Ventures Foundry Group | $1M |
Yesware builds tools to improve the professional lives of salespeople.
Their first product is Yesware Email - web/IMAP based email services that organize inboxes, track conversations, pop reminders of pending requests, reduce data entry and provide real-time research on correspondents.
Yesware Email’s overall goal is to help salespeople do more deals faster.
This is not new technology. They are focused on optimizing proven technology to meet the needs of power users - people who get and send 100 or more emails a day, people who want computers to take on more data-entry and more automation, so that users can focus on building relationships and closing more business.
The company’s initial target market for is B2B salespeople. For these people, a productivity tool that can help them reach their sales goals is extremely valuable. Yesware Email will be free for a 30 day trial, and $9.95 per month after that.
The market for Yesware is huge, and so is the competition. Companies like Salesforce, Microsoft and Oracle sell billions of dollars of enterprise software annually to corporate IT departments. Their software, however, is almost exclusively aimed at sales management and oversight instead of helping salespeople sell more. Yesware will sell its services directly to salespeople, and will have to prove its worth to them, instead of to an IT or marketing department interested in sales pipeline visibility.
Yesware also competes with Outlook plugins like Xobni, and Gmail plugins like Rapportive. The company is betting that starting fresh with a webmail experience that’s tailored specifically to salespeople will be an advantage over general solutions for a broader audience.
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