Connected Closes $500,000 in Seed Funding

June 29, 2011 - PRLog -- San Francisco, CA. – Connected, a startup providing Social CRM without the work, today announced the close of a $500,000 seed round of financing led by Trinity Ventures. Also participating in the round were 500 Startups, Ignition Partners, as well as angel investors Christopher Michel, Michael Hoydich, and Mark Gray.

Connected plans to use the funding to expand its contact management solution for small businesses as well as focus on user growth. The core of Connected’s offering is a real-time always up-to-date address book of contacts and conversations from across email, social networks, and calendar. By integrating with LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google Calendar, Gmail, Outlook and more, Connected removes the need for any manual data entry in managing your contacts.

With this data, Connected provides an elegant web-based solution to manage relationships with notes and tags, as well as reminders for birthdays, job changes, or to stay in touch.

“Relationships often make the difference between success and failure in your professional life,” said Sachin Rekhi, CEO and Founder. “However, they’re also time-consuming and painful to manage. Our innovation is that we’ve removed all the mundane work associated with maintaining your contacts so you can focus on building, maintaining, and leveraging your most important relationships.”

The company has seen strong traction since its launch in February, with over 7 million contacts under management and a strong conversion rate to its paid subscription.

The Connected service is available at http://www.connectedhq.com as a free 14-day trial, with monthly and annual subscription plans available.

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Connected is Social CRM without the work for professionals and small businesses. Connected integrates seamlessly with email, calendar, and social networks including LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to enable professionals to be more efficient in managing their relationships without the burden of manual data entry. Connected was founded in 2010 and located in San Francisco, CA. Visit Connected at http://connectedhq.com