2 万个理由为小型企业庆祝: Heyo引发 $2 亿A系列
三月 18, 2014 | 由 弥敦道 | 5 评论"＆GT;5 评论
今天，我们很高兴给小企业主 2 百万更多的理由来庆祝.
我们已经提出 $2 从谷亿美元’ 创投LP大力专注于帮助企业主驱动参与, 电子邮件线索, 并通过社会营销销售. 点击查看原因…
我很感激这个令人难以置信的尖锐的思想家，我们对Heyo团队谁都是倡导的小企业的成长和支持世界各地的. 我也感谢许多导师, 顾问, 和朋友谁帮助支持Heyo.
最重要的, 我很感谢我们的客户 – 尤其是那些加入Heyo不知道在电话的另一边的家伙穿着圣诞拳击手, 从他的弗吉尼亚理工大学的宿舍里有些忙乱 3 几年前. 谢谢.
我们正在寻找的工程师, 设计师和营销人员来帮助我们发布的产品在今年晚些时候将重新定义社会化营销的小企业. 它将激发了很多人.
如果您有兴趣加入的团队一起工作在这个项目上与我们, 给我发电子邮件，告诉我为什么: nathan@heyo.com
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Heyo Closes $2M Series A Round with Valleys’ 企业, 唱片
布莱克斯堡, Va., 三月 17, 2014. Heyo, a software as a service (SaaS的) 公司提供社会化营销平台，为小企业寻找捕捉喜欢, 电子邮件, 销售, today announced the closing of its Series A financing, 一 $2 million round from Valleys’ Ventures, LP of Radford, VA. Heyo intends to use the investment proceeds to accelerate its product development initiatives and user growth, 通过允许该公司以增加其租用的开发.
Heyo is unique in providing a simple interface for users to plan social media campaigns that are pre-tested and result in high conversion rates. Heyo’s mission is to better connect users to existing and potential customers and therefore sell more products and services through social networks.
“We are extremely pleased with the results and look forward to selling more bags and engaging with even more customers using Heyo,“艾米说，隆巴德, 营销经理鱼龙混杂设计.
The more users adopt the Heyo platform, the better Heyo serves each user. Heyo monitors campaign success and then recommends the highest converting campaign strategies to other customers. The Heyo platform has the potential to drive success to businesses that previously struggled to get results from social marketing.
“Using Heyo, we added over 1,750 喜欢我们公司的Facebook页面，我们已经增加了 900 一个星期在邮件到我们的数据库中没有付费广告,” said Maggie Henris, 社会媒体经理乔娱乐.
Heyo’s growth is directly correlating to the success it’s helping businesses achieve. The company added 118 在审判日 2013. 这一数字已增加到 2,585%, 以增加审判 3,047 在1月份就. 另外, 客户增长继续加快. Heyo added more customers in February of this year than it added in the entire fourth quarter of last year.
In addition to small businesses, agencies are transitioning from higher priced social marketing solutions and instead using Heyo to manage and launch social campaigns for their clients. “Our clients are valuing our services and wanting to pay us more each month due to the success Heyo is helping us create,” said Patrick Eckstrom, CEO of MySMN Agency, which serves clients ranging from restaurants to lawyers.
Speaking for Valleys’ Ventures, Rob Patzig, 三安首席投资官, LLC, said “Nathan Latka has a clear vision for Heyo and a deep understanding of what small and medium sized businesses need to take advantage of social media. We are excited to be a part of this opportunity and are particularly excited about a product release coming later this year.” Valleys’ 企业, 在这一轮的唯一投资者, joins existing investors in Heyo, including David Cohen of Techstars and Paul Singh of 500 startups.
创始人兼首席执行官森Latka说, “We will continue to obsess over building the most valuable social media marketing tool for small businesses and are focused on achieving this goal. We’re excited to grow our team and will be aggressively hiring the sharpest engineering and marketing minds we can find to prepare for a new product release later this year – one that we think will really excite people.”
如果你很好奇这是什么产品发布可能, Latka说你应该去 Heyo.com 并签署了在主页上试用.
关于Heyo
成立于 2012, Heyo is a Blacksburg, VA的公司，提供了一个社会化营销平台，为小企业寻找捕捉喜欢, 电子邮件, 销售. Heyo is a SaaS company operating under Lujure Media Inc.
欲了解更多信息, 访问 www.heyo.com
关于河谷'VENTURES
山谷’ 企业, LP是一个区域性的创投基金. The fund’s general partner is managed and operated by Third Security, LLC. Third Security is a venture capital firm formed in 1999 管理在公共和私人投资公司. The Third Security team leverages its experience and expertise to guide companies toward category dominance. More information is available at the firm’s website, www.thirdsecurity.com.
