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Front (YC S14) — Customer communications hub for building strong relationships

Front powers the heart of business — the meaningful connections between teams and customers that lead to lasting relationships. Bringing email and apps together in a collaborative customer communication platform, Front drives business impact by scaling the natural conversations that create customers for life.

Front is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2014 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Customer communications hub for building strong relationships. The founders listed are Mathilde Collin (Founder/CEO), Laurent Perrin (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 15, 2014).

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Front

New accelerator entry · 2014-05-15 · the record

Summer 2014
batch
385
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2014
Announced2014-05-15
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size385
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Productivity
SectorsSaaS
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://front.com

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Front powers the heart of business — the meaningful connections between teams and customers that lead to lasting relationships. Bringing email and apps together in a collaborative customer communication platform, Front drives business impact by scaling the natural conversations that create customers for life. More than 8,000 businesses are using Front today to cultivate personalized customer relationships at scale and transform their work into impact. With $204 in funding, Front is backed by leading venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures, as well as independent investors including top executives from PagerDuty, Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, and Zoom.

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