#Scratchpad company software
#Scratchpad company series

Rich: So how does a business know that they’re ready for you? You talked about the fact that they’re just about to ramp-up. We’ve had eight graduates so far and anticipate seeing another 10 to 12 companies this year participate in Scratchpad. We ran one in 2015, we’ve run one then again in 2016, running into 2018, and are working our way towards running two annual cohorts for the next, for the foreseeable future.

Jason Harkins: Sure, so Scratchpad was started in 2015, actually as a sabbatical project of mine, which was the least stressful sabbatical you could possibly participate in. Yury: And how old is Scratchpad? How many classes or cohorts, or companies that successfully graduated? As a co-managing director, I’m responsible for pulling together the program, recruiting companies, raising funds and generally supporting our startups and our mentors, and making sure that the companies that participate get as much value as humanly possible out of the time that they’re a part of Scratchpad. So these are companies that are going to tend to be immediately preceding an investment round, which we would call a seed round, and they have a product, they have some done customer discovery, and they’re basically looking to build on the early traction they have as they move forward.

So Scratchpad Accelerator is a seed accelerator which looks to work with companies, that as Rich just said, are scalable and investment-oriented at the latest stages before they start to scale into their growth. Yury: Jason, the first question, can you tell us more about Scratchpad Accelerator and what your role is there? He has a teaching and research interests related to the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship. He’s also an active contributor to and consultant for entrepreneurial companies throughout Maine. He loves working with startups, with a focus on developing the business side of new ventures. He is on the advisory board of a number of scalable businesses in Maine and is on the board of UpStart Maine, which is building a community that fuels entrepreneurship in the Bangor region. He is an associate professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Maine, and also co-owner of CoVort, Bangor’s coworking space. Rich: Our guest today is the co-managing director of Scratchpad Accelerator, a seed accelerator running multiple programs each year for scalable investment-oriented companies. In this episode, we talk to Jason Harkins about Scratchpad Accelerator’s role in helping Maine business scale up, and quickly! If so, then Scratchpad Accelerator may be for you! Scratchpad’ workspace instantly connected to Salesforce, including: spreadsheets, task managers, chat, deal collaboration, sales notes, and pipeline management.Looking to grow your Maine-based business? Are you scalable and looking for investment? Ready for your seed round? These organizations have adopted Scratchpad Scratchpad has been used by tens of thousands of salespeople and thousands of companies including Algolia, Allstate, Chilipiper, Ironclad, Pitchbook, Quora, Sendoso, Segment, Talkdesk, Twilio, Udemy, Upwork, Vanta, Vidyard, and more.

#Scratchpad company software

Led by Pouyan Salehi, CEO and co-founder, Scratchpad provides a Revenue Team Workspace software platform for managing sales pipeline, taking and sharing notes, working their to-dos, forecasting with their managers, making handoffs between teams easier, and collaborating with their revenue teams effectively.

#Scratchpad company series

Scratchpad, Inc., a San Mateo, California – based revenue team workspace company, secured a $33m Series B funding round, bringing total funding to $49m.Įxisting investor David Sacks’s Craft Ventures led the preemptive round with continued participation from Accel.