🎉 We’re thrilled to announce we’ve raised $66 million in our
#SeriesB
funding round! Backed by
@Sequoia
and
@DFJvc
, we’re excited to keep helping teams work better together with Front.
We've got big news to share... Drumroll, please! 🥁🥁🥁
We're officially 🙌
So excited to unveil our newly designed website (and shiny new domain!). Come say hi 👋
We are thrilled to announce that Front has been named to
@Forbes
' Next Billion Dollar Startup 2019 list! Honored to be in such great company on this amazing list 🙏
Onward we go! We’re incredibly excited to announce Front closed a $65 million funding round at a $1.7 billion valuation led by
@SalesforceVC
@BatteryVentures
@jenntejada
Read all about it 👉
"'My happiest moments at Front are when I'm doing a 1:1 with someone and they tell me that they're happy that they came back from vacation because they like working here" Collin says. "Nothing can make me happier than that.'"
"Armed with a 25-slide presentation, 28-year-old CEO
@collinmathilde
earned her company, Front, $66 million in
#SeriesB
funding." Read about our pitch deck on
@Inc
by
@larrykim
📘
We’re on a mission to make work happier for every knowledge worker on Earth and we're so glad to have partners like
@sequoia
along for the ride! ✨
Check out
@collinmathilde
's profile on their new site and see how this all began👇
Our CEO and co-founder
@collinmathilde
just launched a newsletter! Sign up to receive reflections and learnings on business growth and leadership + topics like fundraising tactics, internal communications, company values, and more.
More info here 👉
It's official – this week we celebrated the 5th anniversary of launching Front 🎉 And of course, we couldn't have done it without all of our amazing customers, so from each and every one of us here at Front (in SF & in Paris) we want to say THANK YOU! Here's to the next 5 😊
"Now, imagine your brain is a white board. Every time you make a decision, you’re wiping off more scribbles. Soon, it’s clear and ready for creative thought."
@aytekintank
"One of the main reasons our All Hands is so effective is that we use it to honestly report on our progress against OKRs."
@collinmathilde
wrote about our weekly All Hands meeting
@FrontApp
, why we do it, and how to run your own:
We are honored & proud of the small part we could play in
@covidliste
's initiative to help over 1.4 million people in France to register for vaccines. 🇫🇷🤩
See how the team at Covidliste is helping save lives 🤝
Mental health, happiness, and productivity all go hand-in-hand. Our CEO & co-founder
@collinmathilde
spoke to
@Inc
about a few methods she employs to strike that balance – for herself, and for our company as a whole.
Check out the full article here 👉
"If you’re not disciplined with managing your time and religiously tracking your company’s progress, it’s going to be very tough to succeed." –
@collinmathilde
You’re invited: Frontlines 2023
Join us for a virtual keynote where CEO and Co-founder,
@collinmathilde
will dive into the changing landscape at the frontlines of the customer experience and where you should be investing to differentiate your business.
✨ We’re honored to be named a
@Glassdoor
Best Place to Work! See why Front made this year’s list, and congrats to all the great teams who are on it with us.
#BPTW
We partnered w/ our friends at
@HubSpot
to create The Guide to Strong Internal Comms – a Google Drive packed w/ internal comms templates we use right here at Front plus examples from
@Drift
,
@Guru_HQ
,
@bonusly
,
@HelpDocs
& HubSpot!
Get the templates here👇
👐 This week, we're excited to announce the launch of our philanthropic arm, the Front Foundation. We're pledging to give back to the community by donating our time, equity, and product to charitable causes.
@PledgeOne
#GivingBack
Learn more:
"I try to disconnect when I'm home. I think startup founders can easily think that their life is their work." Hear
@collinmathilde
's take on finding balance between running a fast-paced business and taking care of yourself from
@Forbes
Front is proud to be recognized as one of
@GPTW_US
@FortuneMagazine
Best Workplaces in Technology™ 2021 🥳 🎉 See what Fronteers had to say about our workplace culture:
#BestWorkplaces
Did we mention that we're
#hiring
? 🤩
We're on a mission to make work happier by powering better relationships at scale, and we need talented Fronteers to help us out! Come find your dream job ✨
🎉 Integration update! It's a Halloween miracle – Front users can now harness the power of Grammarly inside their inboxes! Just install the
@Grammarly
plugin on your browser of choice, and watch the magic unfold. Finally, you'll be able to spell Jack-O-Lantern the right way 🎃
We've already outgrown the office we opened in Paris earlier this year...and now we're all set up in our new space! Check out our new spot 🏘️ and our open roles 👨👩👧👦
"When you step into the shower, you have two choices: warm or cold. Warm is the easy option. Cold is hard." Productivity expert
@TomFrankly
shares his methodology for building discipline.
Thank you
@ycombinator
for including Front in your Top Companies 2019 List! So honored to be listed among such inspiring and innovative companies 🚀 👏 🙇♀️
Help your customers without lifting a finger. Front's AI Answers will suggest knowledge base articles to customers directly in live chat – even if the keywords don’t exactly match 🤯
Sign up for the AI Answers waitlist:
We are pleased to present the second annual Enterprise Tech 30 – an exclusive list of the most promising startups in enterprise tech as determined by the preeminent venture capitalists in the sector. Read more about the Enterprise Tech 30 at
Join
@collinmathilde
and
@parkerconrad
on Feb 8 as they discuss the ROI of making your support metrics public; why support quality should be a top priority for every CEO; and the most important metrics to measure.
"Done well, performance reviews improve performance, align expectations and accelerate your report’s career. Done poorly, they accelerate their departure." Amazing post by
@lennysan
on the
@firstround
blog about the power of performance reviews 📝
We want more impact. If you do too, join us Aug. 11th for our live virtual event! CEO
@collinmathilde
will take the stage with
@RyanQualtrics
to share Front's new vision & how you can transform work into impact. Sign up here:
"'My happiest moments at Front are when I'm doing a 1:1 with someone and they tell me that they're happy that they came back from vacation because they like working here" Collin says. "Nothing can make me happier than that.'" -
@businessinsider
Our team started out in France and relocated to the US for
@ycombinator
in 2014.
@collinmathilde
shares how having cultural differences among our team has both challenged and positively impacted our team’s growth:
Today, Fronteers sat down at our desks to find a special gift – a gratitude journal for each & every one of us with a note from our CEO and co-founder,
@collinmathilde
🎁 Feeling blessed to work in an environment that cares so deeply about our health, wellbeing, and happiness 🤗
“I realized then that I needed to make some changes of my own – for the sake of my health and the health of my employees.”
@collinmathilde
shares how hardships have shaped her perspective on work:
#WorldMentalHealthDay
🙌 We’ve got exciting news! Faster, more beautiful, and more intuitive than ever before, we think you’re going to love the new-and-improved Front. Check out what’s coming soon:
🆕 Our design team recently revamped our onboarding flow for our app to make it easier than ever to get set up and start using Front. Read about the
#uxdesign
on our
@dribbble
page:
👀 Guess who made the Bloomberg 50 Ones to Watch in 2019? Our very own
@collinmathilde
! We're so proud and honored to have Mathilde named among these impactful global leaders. Thanks for the nomination,
@drewhouston
.
@business
#bloomberg50
Happy International Women’s Day from the women at Front 🙋♀️ We’re proud to be a female-led company supporting equal pay for equal work, fair parental leave, and diverse leadership for all teams. Here’s to another year of progress 💪
#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD2018
We're proud to see
@collinmathilde
honored by
@GoldmanSachs
as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2021 🎉
“Innovation doesn’t happen just anywhere; it thrives where there’s a wide range of thoughts and perspectives” - David Solomon, Chairman & CEO
#GSInnovators
Not only is
@RyanQualtrics
taking
@Qualtrics
public, but he's also chatting with us next week on how he empowers his team to make an impact. Join us to hear his Q&A with
@collinmathilde
-- it's free and virtual!
"The next level... is to uninstall your apps."
"You actually uninstalled Slack from your phone?"
"Oh yeah."
Our CEO and co-founder
@collinmathilde
spilled some of her top productivity hacks at
@CollisionHQ
!
"Email is a staple in every workplace, no matter the industry. But it hasn't really been reimagined since it first hit the mainstream in the '90s. Mathilde Collin and her team at Front want to change that." -
@businessinsider
Transparency is a massive part of our culture at Front. Every quarter, our CEO & co-founder
@collinmathilde
gives a detailed presentation to the entire Front team on what's working, what's not, and where we're headed. See her slides here👇
✅ A new
@todoist
plugin means there's one less app to switch to. Cut through the noise, stay organized, and manage your to-do list without having to leave Front.
Check it out 👉
@dan_abramov
sorry about that Dan! It appears we have a temporary bug here. If you click on any of the icons under the rocket icon twice, it should toggle and hide the pane.
"With transparency, when you’re actually doing it, it’s insanely hard. But you should force yourself to do it anyway." -
@collinmathilde
at
#SGGlobal
. Read more on
#transparency
in our Culture Book:
🎯 We want more impact. If you do too, join us on August 11th! CEO
@collinmathilde
will share how you can transform your work into impact with special guest
@RyanQualtrics
! Sign up to join — it's free!
#FutureOfWork
🎁 This year, we’re making our customers' most-wanted wishes come true! Stay tuned: Each day, we’ll unwrap a new Front feature we know you'll love. Up first? You can’t plan your White Elephant Party without it…
#FrontHolidayWishes
On our mission to empower teams by building the best inbox, we’re thrilled to announce we've acquired Meetingbird! 🐦 💌 Read more about the power of uniting your calendar and email in Front:
Excited to announce our newest integration channel:
@Drift
🎉 Now you can have Drift conversations alongside email, SMS & more right from your inbox. With all your conversations in 1 place, your
#sales
team can respond faster & win more deals 🙌
#drift
Our CEO and co-founder
@collinmathilde
was just named to
@Inc
's 2019 List of 100 Women Building America’s Most Innovative and Ambitious Businesses! We are proud to be working happier alongside Mathilde at Front every single day 🙏 🎆
Thrilled to be recognized on the YC Top Companies list for 2022!🎊
It's all thanks to our incredible Fronteers, working together to help teams build strong customer relationships 🤝
Come make an impact at Front 👉
Congrats to the 2022 YC Top Companies!
This year, we also launched the YC Breakthrough Companies list to highlight the fast-growing companies that have received between $15M-$300M from YC:
Incredibly excited to rank
#2
on
@zapier
's 2019 Fastest Growing Work Apps list for the second year in a row! Proud to be in such great company, check out the full list on
@businessinsider
🙇 🤗
When your team is working at breakneck speeds, they need a project management tool to depend on. That's why we're excited to help fuel hyper-growth teams with our integration with
@linear
🔥
Learn more 👇
What should you NOT do when you're trying to grow customer accounts? Our Head of Customer Success Sarah Sheikh lays out five mistakes to avoid on
@Drift
's blog. Mistake 1️⃣ : Divorcing commercial conversations from customer success.