Seattle startup Common Room emerges from stealth mode with $52M in funding
Summary
The advocacy of a customer champion is the best sales you could ask for,” noted Sarah Guo, partner at Greylock, which led the $32.3 million Series B round. The team: Common Room has less than 20 employees and is led by four co-founders: • CEO Linda Lian, a former associate at Madrona Venture Group and senior product marketing manager at Amazon Web Services. • Chief Architect Tom Kleinpeter, most recently a principal engineer at Dropbox who sold a music streaming startup to the cloud giant in 2012. • CTO Viraj Mody, formerly the engineering director at Dropbox and technical advisor to the CEO at Seattle startup Convoy. Lian’s post on LinkedIn sheds some light: “People often ask me “who is Common Room for?” We’re certainly for community teams today – the oft-unsung heroes who care as much about the ‘how’ as the ‘what,’ and are usually the first living, breathing human a practitioner engages with at the enterprise.