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Amidst the monumental success of Slack — A Business Communication Platform — there has been another customer communication platform winning the admiration of wall street investors & venture capitalists. It's Front...
Before Any Further Ado, Let's Introduce Front?
The Front is similar to Slack for email. Or, in other words, a shared Inbox App.
The Front is a revolutionary solution that merges a company's social media profiles, texts, emails, and other messages into One Shared Inbox that the entire organization can manage.
With Front, we want you to receive all your company's incoming feeds in our app and collaborate in real-time on these requests, Co-founder and CEO Mathilde Collin told TechCrunch. It's a bit like an online receptionist.
Inside Front: The Story of One of World's Hottest Startup
The startup story of Front is such that every aspiring entrepreneur would envy it.
In less than half a decade, Front scaled its workforce to 100+ Professionals, Acquired Over 400 Users, and Raised $80 From funding.
Email is a staple for smooth workflow management, regardless of the industry. However, email had never been reimagined since it first busted the scenes in the 90s.
Mathilde Collin and his team came up with Front to change that and lock horns with established players such as Google's Gmail and Microsoft's Outlook.
Today, Front's is powering 6,500+ Businesses Across the Globe, and 200+ Million People.
The Front has raised $138 Million From Firms and Investors worldwide.
A Quick Glance At The History of Front
In 2013, Front was founded in Paris by CEO Mathilde Collin and CTO Laurent Perrin.
They moved to San Francisco a year later and launched with the support of Y Combinator.
The year 2016 was the most significant milestone in Front's successful journey, as it raised $10 million through Series A Funding.
Two years later, Front raised $66 million via Series B Funding and set up their office in Paris. In the same year, they acquired Meetingbird, a Calendar Startup.
In 2020, Front raised $559 million through Series C Funding from executives in renowned software companies such as Zoom, Qualtrics, Okta, and Atlassian.
Let's Hop Onto Front's Greatest Pitch Deck That Raised Millions
Here, we're going to review Front's elevator funding deck.
The presentation is highly impactful, with problem and solution slides stealing the show. It does a fine job in presenting a holistic company overview.
The competitive landscape is engaging, and not to mention, ending with a simple yet meaningful contact us slide.
Let's dig into these crucial slides and see what inspiration you can gain from here.
Slide 1: About Front as Customer Communication Platform
No company introduction slide in the pitch deck can get as gripping and persuading as this.
The slide tells what the company does and its fundamental details, such as when it was founded, and provides a glimpse of its valuable clients.
A well-represented graph on the left-hand side sheds light on Front's Consistent Growth.
And Front wraps up the slide with the mission statement on the bottom ride-hand side.
The Red-and-White Theme coordinates with the color scheme of Front's Logo.
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Slide 2: What Solutions Are Provided by Front
Just by having one glance at the solution slide of Front, one can immediately DEDUCE how well the information is laid out.
Although this slide contains more text than a regular solution slide, the details are easy to understand, as the company hasn't added any technical jargon.
The enlarged icons go seamlessly with their respective solution to make the text visually- interpretative.
And, the image within the circular shape on the right side is the perfect icing on the cake.
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Slide 3: Competitive Landscape of Major Players Existing
In this slide, Front compares itself with significant players in the industry in terms of crucial factors such as Customer-Focused, Business-Ready, and Message Experience by the user.
The visual presentation of the competitive landscape in the Front pitch deck shows why it is cut above the rest.
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Slide 4: Multiple Inboxes Management
This slide exhibits the impressive start of Front with multiple inbox management.
There is a red-and-white bar graph explaining how well the Front platform manages multiple Inboxes.
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Slide 5: Constant Growth of Front
This slide depicts that the concept of shared Inbox by Front is already gaining traction with a classic bar graph that showcases Monthly Recurring Revenue has soared to 5.4 times over the past twelve months.
Note: Monthly Recurring Revenue, aka MRR, is a predictable tool that determines the revenue generated from all subscriptions over a specific month.
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Slide 6: Addressing Acquisition Channels of Front Platform
This slide caters to details about Front's different channels to expand its user base.
The Front has divided its customer acquisition channels into three board categories.
First is Organic Growth, from where it bagged its 70% of leads in 2015.
Second is the Impressive Sales with 28% post-demo conversions.
Last is Effective Marketing Initiatives such as content playbooks.
As a note, Front mentions that it has identified potential initiatives to bring new customers, emphasizing these.
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Slide 7: Determine Impressive Capital Efficiency of Front Platform
Front rends a masterstroke with a critical capital efficiency slide.
The slide defines the amount Front has spent over the last 18 months to reach the mark of $1.44MM in ARR.
This slide throws light on the amount left from the previous seed funding rounds.
The Front also says it is spending approx. $90k monthly.
However, the biggest takeaway for investors in this slide is that Front will become a profitable firm in the next five years.
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Slide 8: Key People Involved in Front Team
If the angel investors and VCs don't fully trust your people and their expertise, they won't be able to trust your company to translate their investment into good profits.
So, How Do You Gain the Confidence of Investors?
A team side that introduces the key people involved in the functioning of Front, such as Sales Head, CEO, CTO, and Customer Success Head.
And, this is what Front has done in this slide. It has gone the extra mile in mentioning the previous experience of their key people (for instance, their Customer Success Head is the Former Head of Upsells), including their professional headshots.
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Slide 9: Addressing Financial Projections of the Front Platform
The Front's financial projections slide format is intelligently drafted to provide prospective investors with everything they need to understand a company's financials at a glance.
Front put forth all the important numbers in this slide, such as the expenditure, revenue, and headcount.
ARR or Annual Recurring Revenue is a metric used by SaaS-based companies to determine the expected revenue based on their yearly subscriptions.
The audience can have a ballpark idea of the company's financial projections by looking at the detailed graph.
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Slide 10: The Capital Funding Scenario of Front
We wrap it with the capital funding scenario slide.
This slide showcases the POSITIVE transition from Series Seed Funding to Series A Funding.
Like, Front managed to acquire funds from Approx. $3.1 million through Series Seed Funding in 2014 and now $10M from Series A Funding.
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