#350M OPENVIEW VENTURE PARTNERS ICONIQ SOFTWARE#

“We are strong believers in using content marketing and social media as a marketing strategy, but there are very few websites that our portfolio companies can use as models.

We have been working on creating a website network that demonstrates our unique approach, allowing us to better execute our content marketing strategy and serving as a model for our portfolio companies. We released our OpenView Labs site in the fall and are now releasing our first iteration of our main website. Now, we are moving onto the next iteration of our blog site,” said Scott Maxwell, Founder and Senior Managing Director. “The new site highlights our people, portfolio companies, investment process, collaborative approach, and ideas allowing entrepreneurs to truly meet OpenView even before they walk through our doors,” added Brian Zimmerman, managing director.įounded in 2006, OpenView Partners focuses helping technology companies realize their visions in a way that combines capital, strategic, and operational assistance. OpenView typically invests $5-15 million in companies that have $2-20 million in annual sales. In addition to a capital investment, OpenView helps all portfolio companies through OpenView Labs, a team of in-house consultants, external Senior Advisors, and a network of service providers. The OpenView Labs team helps the portfolio companies in three broad areas: Product Development: focusing on market segmentation, identifying user needs, product aspirations and designing and implementing great products Customer Development: focusing on identifying buyer needs, market aspirations, and designing and implementing great go-to-market strategies and execution Company Development: focusing on the organizational and operational strategy and execution (company aspirations, management practices, Finance, Legal, HR, IT, and administration). To learn more about OpenView Partners, visit the new site at. “While we considered outside investment an unnecessary distraction, we made the decision to partner with OpenView and Iconiq because of their insight and extended network within the tech industry.To learn about more about OpenView Labs, visit the idea site at. “Our profitable, unique, product-led growth model has led to Calendly becoming the most used, most integrated, most loved scheduling platforms for individuals and large enterprises alike,” said CEO Tope Awotona.

#350M OPENVIEW VENTURE PARTNERS ICONIQ SOFTWARE#

The software startup also added two new senior executives at the end of 2020 to grow its employees and revenue. The investment will be used to provide liquidity for early shareholders and employees as well as continue product innovation, according to the announcement. Last year, the company made about $70 million in subscription revenues and is projecting revenues will get to $1 billion in the near future. Since then, the Atlanta based company has been very popular and very profitable. Tope Awotona, Founder and CEO of Calendly OpenView Venture Partners, along with new investor Iconiq Capital, were part of the investment. Today, Calendly announced that they have closed a $350 million investment which now values the company at more than $3 billion.

Currently, about 10 million people use the platform on a monthly basis. Calendly is a Black owned scheduling app, designed to make the process of finding meeting times easy.

350m openview venture partners iconiq