Clubhouse, the
collaborative home for modern software teams, today announced $25 million in
Series B funding, bringing the total raised to $39 million. The round was led
by Greylock Partners with participation from existing investors Battery
Ventures and Lerer Hippeau. Clubhouse will use the new funding to accelerate
its product innovation and scale the team as it looks to surpass the one
million user milestone next year.
"Building great software is the basis of
competition for more businesses in more industries than ever before," said
Sarah Guo, general partner at Greylock and Clubhouse board member. "Yet the
aging tools used to organize software development often make the process
harder, not easier. With their blazingly fast, simple yet powerful software
project management, Clubhouse is reinvigorating a huge but long-stagnant market.
They've demonstrated both scalability and developer love that we believe has
enormous potential. We're thrilled to partner with the entire team as they grow
and provide companies with a better, collaborative home for software teams."
"The hard truth is that we haven't seen a
modern vendor emerge in the last decade in the project management software
space - despite huge changes in the overall software-development
process," said Neeraj Agrawal, general partner at Battery and Clubhouse board
member. "We think Clubhouse is the new market entrant that can really shake up
the sector. We have been extremely impressed with the company's rock-solid
team, innovative mindset and revenue traction to date, and we have high hopes
for continued growth."
Software project management tools are either
too simple and do not scale as teams grow, or they are overly complex to the
point where the only choice is to adopt multiple tools such as Atlassian's Jira
and Trello. These complex project management tools create silo effects that
minimize collaboration and visibility between engineering teams and the rest of
the organization.
"We recently moved off multiple project
management tools to all lock arms in Clubhouse," said Christine Spang,
co-founder and CTO of Nylas. "With Clubhouse, we are able to track issues and
collaborate successfully across departments. The team works faster and with
less friction because managers and execs can trust the latest information is in
Clubhouse without interrupting the team."
From day one, Clubhouse's philosophy has been
to deliver products and features that are fast and enjoyable so teams can focus
on what matters - working together to create quality software their customers
love. Clubhouse is the first and only software project management platform that
successfully bridges collaboration across high-growth businesses. The platform
provides the perfect balance of simplicity and structure so product and
engineering teams can effectively plan, collaborate and manage their work
across the entire organization and it scales as their teams grow, without
friction and bloat to slow them down.
"Clubhouse is built by engineers for
engineers," said James Turnbull, VP of Engineering at Glitch. "The workflow of
the tool fits perfectly - we were able to get set up in less than 15
minutes. It makes my life easier and doesn't get in the way and allows me to
focus on my team and my goals."
"Clubhouse is redefining how quality software
is created," said Kurt Schrader, co-founder and CEO of Clubhouse. "We're
continuing to invest in building a faster and more powerful platform that will
power modern software teams and their collaborators to do their best work,
while being a joy to use."