, a payments and software startup focused on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by ���a newish VC firm founded by former execs.
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Existing backers , and , also participated in the financing, which brings the company���s since its early-2017 inception to $130 million. This round comes just nine months (to the day) since SpotOn raised $40 million in co-led by Dragoneer and Franklin Templeton.
San Francisco-based SpotOn is taking on the likes of Square in the payments space. But says it ���goes way beyond��� traditional payment processing and point-of-sale (POS) software. Its platform also gives SMBs the ability to run their businesses ���from building a brand to taking payments and everything in-between.��� It incorporates tools that include things such as custom website development, scheduling software, marketing, appointment scheduling, review management, analytics and digital loyalty.
To put it simply, according to SpotOn President , SpotOn aims to give SMBs the ability to accept payments ���coupled with meaningful, integrated software to meet their specific needs and operate more efficiently.���
���Unlike other offerings, we build our own product offerings and have straight-forward pricing coupled with face-to-face service,��� Horsley added.
Growth
The company says its new funding follows a year in which it saw revenue increase ���by over 150 percent.��� Also, SpotOn doubled its employee count to 850 over the past year. So far in 2020, it���s added over 5,000 clients with a focus on the food and beverage industry. Horsley said the company expects to add 30,000 clients this year. Currently, SpotOn has ���tens of thousands of clients,��� and is more than doubling year over year, he added.
For 01 Advisors managing partner and co-founder (and former Twitter CEO) , SpotOn is a rare company that can build both ���great��� products and ���great��� sales teams.
The company plans to use its new capital to invest in product development with an emphasis on targeting specific verticals. It���s especially focused on its restaurant solution, having recently tripled the development team working on improving upon that product.
SpotOn is currently ���aggressively hiring.��� Besides its San Francisco headquarters, the company has ���expanding��� product, technology and operations teams in Chicago, Detroit and Denver, as well as newly opened offices in Mexico City, Mexico, and Krakow, Poland.
It���s been a busy week for 01 Advisors. The firm also put money into New York City-based , which provides enterprise-grade IT services to SMBs and has just raised a $14.5 million Series B round.
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