Media mentions and Press release

September 1, 2014

Could Mobile CRM Solve Field Sales' Biggest Problems?

For many field sales representatives, CRM is a burden. After a long day of selling, they have to enter information from the day's calls and appointments, culled from hastily scribbled notes, into their company's CRM system...

June 27, 2014

Tactile touches up sales software

Imagine spending more than a decade making products that you believed nobody liked using. Chuck Ganapathi, a former senior vice president at Salesforce working on CRM applications, could tell you what it was like: Frustrating...

June 10, 2014

The Ultimate Hackers: Salespeople Go "Rogue"

Outside of tech circles, the word “hacker” conjures up an image of a nerdy kid scheming in his parents’ basement, or someone causing a national security crisis in the latest episode of “Scandal.”...

June 2, 2014

Tactile CEO: Why now's the time for 'bring your own' business app

The momentum behind targeting business apps at employees rather than their employers is building, according to startup Tactile's founder and CEO, Chuck Ganapathi...

March 25, 2014

Salesforce vet launches new app that tackles the enterprise’s dirty little secret

Tactile CEO Chuck Ganapathi, a former Salesforce executive, aims to simplify enterprise software the same way Dropbox and iCloud did for consumer storage...

March 25, 2014

Tactile Raises $11M To Help Workers Sync Their Personal And Professional Data

Tactile, a new enterprise company that wants to help workers bring together all their customer information into one app, has raised $11.2 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and Redpoint Ventures...

April 24, 2017

Tact Takes the Stage at Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience 17 event

Tact, the sales experience platform, today announced it will be presenting at the CX Sales General Session at Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience 17 event on April 25 -27 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Tact will preview the upcoming integration of its conversational AI assistant with Oracle Sales Cloud. In addition, Tact has achieved a Silver level membership within the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

March 13, 2017

Tact Named on the Constellation ShortList™ for Sales Productivity

Tact, the sales experience platform, today announced it was named to the Constellation ShortList for Sales Productivity for Q1 2017. With 52 percent of the Fortune 500 turning over since 2000, success requires a rethink around the core mission and business model of an organization. The companies included on the Constellation ShortList provide the key functionality and requirements for early adopters pursuing digital transformation initiatives...

January 31, 2017

Tact Brings its Conversational AI Assistant to the Slack Enterprise Grid

Tact, the sales experience platform, today announced its AI-powered smart assistant for salespeople is now available in messaging environments like the newly released Slack Enterprise Grid. Sales teams can now access their most critical tools -- Salesforce, LinkedIn, Zendesk and more – through natural touch, text and voice interfaces without ever having to leave the conversation...

December 12, 2016

Tact Secures $15 Million Series B

Tact, the sales experience platform, today announced the close of a new $15 million funding round. Upfront Ventures led the series B, with its managing partner Mark Suster joining the Board. Microsoft Ventures also participated in the new financing round, along with existing investors Kevin Efrusy of Accel Partners and Satish Dharmaraj of Redpoint Ventures. With the new capital, Tact’s total funding now exceeds $30 million.

March 24, 2016

Tactile Wins Gold Stevie® Award for Best Relationship Management Solution

Tactile, the leader in mobile sales productivity, today announced it has won a Gold Stevie® Award for Best Relationship Management Solution (new version) in the tenth annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service. This is the second consecutive year that Tactile has achieved this honor. Other notable Stevie Award winners this year include CallidusCloud, Clearslide, Hubspot, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, SugarCRM and Xactly.

December 1, 2015

WebEx Founder and Cloud Computing Pioneer Subrah Iyar Joins Tactile as Investor and Strategic Board Advisor

Tactile, the company on a mission to make the world a happier place to work, today announced that renowned technology industry veteran Subrah Iyar has been named Board Observer and Strategic Advisor to its Board of Directors. Iyar was the co-founder and CEO of WebEx and led the company to its $3.2 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2007. Tactile also announced that Iyar has made an undisclosed investment in the company to help fuel its...

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