{"id":26261,"date":"2021-09-12T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T12:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/fin-names-former-twilio-exec-evan-cummack-as-ceo-raises-20m.html"},"modified":"2021-09-12T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T12:19:43","slug":"fin-names-former-twilio-exec-evan-cummack-as-ceo-raises-20m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/fin-names-former-twilio-exec-evan-cummack-as-ceo-raises-20m.html","title":{"rendered":"Fin names former Twilio exec Evan Cummack as CEO, raises $20M"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work insights platform Fin<\/a> raised $20 million in Series A funding and brought in Evan Cummack, a former Twilio executive, as its new chief executive officer.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco-based company captures employee workflow data from across applications and turns it into productivity insights to improve the way enterprise teams work and remain engaged.<\/p>\n

Fin was founded in 2015 by Andrew Kortina, co-founder of Venmo, and Facebook\u2019s former VP of product and Slow Ventures partner Sam Lessin. Initially, the company was doing voice assistant technology \u2014 think Alexa but powered by humans and machine learning \u2014 and then workplace analytics software in 2020. You can read more about Fin\u2019s origins at the link below.<\/p>\n

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Sam Lessin and Andrew Kortina on their voice assistant\u2019s workplace pivot<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The new round was led by Coatue, with participation from First Round Capital, Accel and Kleiner Perkins. The original team was talented, but small, so the new funding will build out sales, marketing and engineering teams, Cummack said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that point, the right thing was to raise money, so at the end of last year, the company raised a $20 million Series A, and it was also decided to find a leadership team that knows how to build an enterprise,\u201d Cummack told TechCrunch. \u201cThe company had completely pivoted and removed \u2018Analytics\u2019 from our name because it was not encompassing what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fin\u2019s software measures productivity and provides insights on ways managers can optimize processes, coach their employees and see how teams are actually using technology to get their work done. At the same time, employees are able to manage their workflow and highlight areas where there may be bottlenecks. All combined, it leads to better operations and customer experiences, Cummack said.<\/p>\n

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Graphic showing how work is really done. Image Credits:<\/strong> Fin<\/p>\n

Fin\u2019s view is that as more automation occurs, the company is looking at a \u201crenaissance of human work.\u201d There will be more jobs and more types of jobs, but people will be able to do them more effectively and the work will be more fulfilling, he added.<\/p>\n

Particularly with the use of technology, he notes that in the era before cloud computing, there was a small number of software vendors. Now with the average tech company using over 130 SaaS apps, it allows for a lot of entrepreneurs and adoption of best-in-breed apps so that a viable company can start with a handful of people and leverage those apps to gain big customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s different for enterprise customers, though, to understand that investment and what they are spending their money on as they use tools to get their jobs done,\u201d Cummack added. \u201cThere is massive pressure to improve the customer experience and move quickly. Now with many people working from home, Fin enables you to look at all 130 apps as if they are one and how they are being used.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, Fin\u2019s customers are seeing metrics like 16% increase in team utilization and engagement, a 25% decrease in support ticket handle time and a 71% increase in policy compliance. Meanwhile, the company itself is doubling and tripling its customers and revenue each year.<\/p>\n

Now with leadership and people in place, Cummack said the company is positioned to scale, though it already had a huge head start in terms of a meaningful business.<\/p>\n

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Productivity startup Time is Ltd. raises $5.6M to be the \u2018Google Analytics for company time\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Arielle Zuckerberg, partner at Coatue, said via email that she was part of a previous firm that invested in Fin\u2019s seed round to build a virtual assistant. She was also a customer of Fin Assistant until it was discontinued.<\/p>\n

When she heard the company was pivoting to enterprise, she \u201cwas excited because I thought it was a natural outgrowth of the previous business, had a lot of potential and I was already familiar with management and thought highly of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

She believed the \u201cbrains\u201d of the company always revolved around understanding and measuring what assistants were doing to complete a task as a way to create opportunities for improvement or automation. The pivot to agent-facing tools made sense to Zuckerberg, but it wasn\u2019t until the global pandemic that it clicked.<\/p>\n

\u201cService teams were forced to go remote overnight, and companies had little to no visibility into what people were doing working from home,\u201d she added. \u201cIn this remote environment, we thought that Fin\u2019s product was incredibly well-suited to address the challenges of managing a growing remote support team, and that over time, their unique data set of how people use various apps and tools to complete tasks can help business leaders improve the future of work for their team members. We believe that contact center agents going remote was inevitable even before COVID, but COVID was a huge accelerant and created a compelling \u2018why now\u2019 moment for Fin\u2019s solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going forward, Coatue sees Fin as \u201ca process mining company that is focused on service teams.\u201d By initially focusing on customer support and contact center use case \u2014 a business large enough to support a scaled, standalone business \u2014 rather than joining competitors in going after Fortune 500 companies where\u00a0implementation cycles\u00a0are long\u00a0and there is slow time-to-value, Zuckerberg said Fin is better able to \u201caddress the unique challenges of managing a growing remote support team with a near-immediate time-to-value.\u201d<\/p>\n

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5 emerging use cases for productivity infrastructure in 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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