Ford Davidson’s new startup Coolr scores $1.5 million to take on enterprise chat
Summary
Davidson is being quiet about what he is working on next, but hinted that it has to do with the enterprise chat category, including companies like Microsoft’s Yammer, VMware’s Socialcast and startups like Slack. “Yammer and Slack represent a new type of enterprise software category, that is enabled by bring your own app to work that is designed for mobile and all the screens people use,” Davidson said. Coolr is part of this new type of enterprise software category, but with a different core focus.” Davidson’s last startup, Dashwire, developed a phone back-up service that allows users to easily sync contacts, photos, text messages and other content to the Web. Coolr’s investors are: Trilogy Equity Partners and angels Geoff Entress, Serena Glover and Chris Bayley. The company is current leasing space at WeWork in South Lake Union and has plans to hire 10 people with the funding.
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