While a partner at a VC firm, Nicolas Sharp took on the project of finding customer relationship management (CRM) software for the firm. The process, he says, was “a nightmare,” leading him to build a CRM platform that could meet his — and his company’s — needs.
“I became a developer by night and a VC by day,” Sharp told TechCrunch via email. “After a few months, I left the venture world to continue the project.”
“The project” morphed into Attio, a CRM platform that combines a performant data model with the collaboration capabilities typically found in no-code software. Founded in 2019, Attio caught on quickly, according to Sharp — crossing the $1 million annual recurring revenue mark in December 2022.
Attio has more than 2,000 customers in over 100 countries today. And it’s raising capital, just this morning announcing that it secured $23.5 million in a Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures wit...
