Whalesync, a Seattle startup providing no-code help to firms to sync their knowledge between software program purposes, raised $1.8 million.
The startup is led by CEO Curtis Fonger and co-founder Matthew Busel. Fonger beforehand based Appetas, a Seattle startup that helped restaurant homeowners create customizable web sites with integration to supply companies like OpenTable and GrubHub.
Appetas was purchased by Google in 2014, the place Fonger labored as an engineer for six years.
Busel beforehand labored as a product supervisor at MakeSpace, then was a software program advisor at Thylacine Capital. Earlier than that, he based Referralboard, a Slack integration that permit customers earn factors by referring workers to their managers.
The duo met throughout Y Combinator’s founder matching platform, turning into the primary startup whose founders graduated YC’s accelerator after assembly by the networking program.
Whalesync sells a no-code instrument that lets companies sync their knowledge throughout completely different software program apps, permitting companies to handle all of their inputs from a single spreadsheet.
Massive enterprises are presently utilizing processes like ETL (extract, switch, load) and reverse-ETL pipelines to maneuver knowledge out and in of information warehouses, Busel advised Startup.
“We’ve realized from these greatest practices and created novel expertise to simplify the setup course of and produce the ability of information syncing to SMBs, who’re presently utilizing automation instruments to ship knowledge between purposes,” he stated in an e mail.
Busel declined to share income figures however stated the corporate has already signed up “tons of of shoppers.” A few of its early use circumstances embody Alchemy’s Dapp Retailer, which makes use of Whalesync’s tech to sync its Airtable and Webflow, in addition to powering Webflow’s occasions calendar.
Whalesync will compete with giant file syncing firms like Zapier, in addition to HubSpot, which acquired the info synchronization platform PieSync in 2019.
The pre-seed funding comes from YC, Ascend, Liquid2, Soma, and others.