Employee advocacy platform Smarp raises €1.3M
Summary
This company is leveraging employee social media accounts to get results Smarp>, a Finnish SaaS platform for employee advocacy announced on Friday that it has raised 1.3 million euros from Vision+, TEKES and a number of business angels, including Pedro Ros, Smarp’s chairman of the board. As part of the investment news, Smarp announced that it tripled its revenues and is planning to open a New York office in September. Headquartered in Helsinki, Smarp has recently expanded to London, Dubai and the Nordic countries. Lauharanta and his co-founder Roope Heinilä founded Smarp to help companies to leverage their employees in order to extract the most from their social media presence. Smarp’s revenue model is run on yearly licenses, which are based on the number of employees being utilized by the company.
