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Ambition (YC W14) — Coaching and gamification software for sales teams

We motivate employees to reach their potential, empower managers to be great coaches, and ultimately help sales teams hit number with great culture. We do this through an extensive suite of coaching and gamification tools, all powered by sales activity data.

Ambition is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2014 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Coaching and gamification software for sales teams. The founders listed are Travis Truett (Founder/CEO), Jared Houghton (Founder), Brian Trautschold (Founder/COO) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 20, 2013).

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Ambition

New accelerator entry · 2013-11-20 · the record

Winter 2014
batch
55
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2014
Announced2013-11-20
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size55
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Sales
SectorsSaaS, B2B
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedChattanooga, TN, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://ambition.com

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We motivate employees to reach their potential, empower managers to be great coaches, and ultimately help sales teams hit number with great culture. We do this through an extensive suite of coaching and gamification tools, all powered by sales activity data.

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