Ambition

http://www.tryambition.com

Y Combinator // YC W14 starting 2014-01-01

Key notes: Optimizing Sales Performance

Office address: 800 Market St., Suite #222, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

Description: Ambition is fantasy football for sales organizations. Really, it's a productivity tool masquerading as a game that replaces the spreadsheets, whiteboards, and even gongs used today. All sales organization are looking for ways to increase accountability, motivation, and engagement of their staff. By gamifying sales, Ambition provides recognition, transparency, and competition while simultaneously encouraging collaboration and team cohesiveness. Once Ambition is deployed by an organization, they get week to week, team-based metrics that create on ongoing, sustainable mechanism to track and motivate sales staff. Perhaps the biggest advantage of using Ambition is that it provides motivation up and down the sales force, whereas most motivational tools focus only on top performers. Ambition provides seamless CRM integration with Sales Force and others. It also provides integration with phone systems, Google Docs, Dropbox, and CSV's to measure unique calls, call time, and other metrics. In August 2014, Ambition implemented its Triggers feature, which allows customizable, automated push notification alerts to be sent to managers. Managers create these alerts based around performance benchmarks, and can set them to alert when employees do/do not meet certain goals. The result is a much simpler, more efficient way of capturing important employee performance data and delivering it to senior personnel. Since launching in August of 2013, there are now already over $500 million in annualized sales flowing through Ambition and they continue to grow rapidly. Ambition was founded by Travis Truett, Brian Trautschold, Jared Houghton, and Wes Kendall. They have raised a seed round from The Lamp Post Group, YC and YCVC.

$ 2,000,000 over 2 funding rounds.

Angellist Page:

https://angel.co/ambition

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Funding Rounds

Date	Name	$ Invested	Crunchbase link
2014-02-01	seed		Detailed data
2014-06-04	seed	$ 2,000,000	Detailed data

Investors

Round Date	Round Name	Investor	Crunchbase Link
2014-02-01	seed	Redpoint Ventures	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Google Ventures	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Rick Morrison	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Patrick Collison	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Lamp Post Group	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	SV Angel	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Y Combinator	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Ryan Petersen	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Justin Kan	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	John Collison	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Garry Tan	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Paul Buchheit	Investor Profile
2014-06-04	seed	SV Angel	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Acequia Capital	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	High Line Venture Partners	Investor Profile
2014-06-04	seed	Google Ventures	Investor Profile
2014-02-01	seed	Alexis Ohanian	Investor Profile