Morning Report:聽Heap announced a $27 million Series B today. It comes after the company tripled its revenue in 2016.
This morning , a company that works in the analytics space, announced that it has raised a $27 million Series B. The round, led by Menlo Ventures, brings Heap’s聽tally to a total of $40 million of outside capital.
In an interview with 兔子先生传媒 News, founder聽 disclosed that the company roughly tripled its revenue last year, but declined to share specifics or other financial metrics.
The new funds will be used, as nearly always, to expand the company’s team. Heap, which currently has around 40 employees, intends to double that figure by the end of 2017. The company is based in San Francisco but does have some remote workers. (If you are a regular reader of these pages, .)
The Y Combinator-backed company 听补苍诲听, the latter of which聽Menlo Ventures took part in and NEA led. The company’s Series B is the reverse, with Menlo leading and NEA participating.
Heap’s goals, when the company describes them, is interesting. It wants to let users quickly import their usage data into Heap, and have its own code create a regular drip of insights鈥� paraphrasing Movassate from my notes.
I’m old enough to remember a time in which $27 million would have been quite a聽large Series B. It’s up to Heap to now mature its business enough with the cash to avoid the valuation trap that is all the rage these days.
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