Epicbrief, a Helsinki-based startup, has recently raised €1 million in a pre-seed funding round. The round was led by Dutch VC firm Curiosity and included Finnish investor Superhero Capital. The startup’s platform uses AI to help sales professionals automate administrative tasks, integrate with meeting software and CRM systems, summarize sales conversations in an easy-to-understand manner, and make data-driven decisions to boost productivity, improve collaboration, and enhance sales performance. With the €1 million in pre-seed funding, Epicbrief plans to further develop and enhance their AI-powered platform. Their goal is to streamline the sales process and automate administrative tasks across the entire sales workflow.
For the past 20 years, sales teams have faced persistent challenges. On average, 70% of their time is spent on administrative tasks, most sales teams are under 50% in quota attainment, and most sales reps have less than 2 years in tenure, resulting in high turnover rates. The current economic downturn has only increased expectations for both sales reps and their managers.
To tackle these recurring challenges and ease the stress imposed on sales teams, Miro Putkonen, Pyry Takala, and Anton Dobrzhanskiy founded Epicbrief. With its AI-powered solution, Epicbrief aims to automate many of the administrative tasks sales reps face daily. Sales teams can use the advanced technology to transform sales conversations into clear, objective summaries within seconds, enabling them to focus on more strategic tasks and increasing overall productivity. The platform’s easy-to-understand summaries also promote better communication and collaboration among team members and stakeholders.
Epicbrief’s integration into various video conferencing tools and CRM systems allows automatic filling in CRM fields. This feature enables sales professionals to track, analyze, and use data from meetings to make informed decisions that lead to success.
Miro Putkonen, the CEO of Epicbrief, says, “We believe that AI presents a massive opportunity to completely transform the work of sales professionals. By automating administrative tasks, we’re enabling them to focus on what really matters: building relationships, closing deals, and achieving their quotas.
As a start, we focus on automating sales call summaries and action plans and provide easy-to-use tools for collaboration and communication to make sales organizations more productive and make better-informed decisions. In the long term, we’re looking to expand towards automation across the whole sales workflow. We’re grateful for the support of our early users and investors and excited to continue developing our platform to make the human work in sales easier, more meaningful, and more valuable.”
Epicbrief’s platform is currently being used by an exclusive group of top-performing sales professionals who have been selected to participate in the beta program. The startup aims to optimize its platform continuously based on user feedback and rapidly expand its user base in the upcoming months.
Curiosity, a Dutch venture capital fund focused on seed-stage investments in AI startups in Northern Europe, led the funding round. Superhero Capital from Finland and an angel investor also participated.
“We are incredibly excited to join forces with Epicbrief on their mission to redefine the sales workflow,” says Herman Kienhuis, Managing Partner at Curiosity. “Their founders’ deep understanding of sales challenges, combined with the groundbreaking potential of new generative AI technologies, positions them well to support sales teams in transforming their work and boosting their performance.”
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