Calinda Software provides a dynamic e-mail mapping solution.
Today, corporations are organized in projects with distributed teams, customers and partners. The dominant communication tools remain the e-mail and the telephone. The e-mail allows communicating more and faster, but it creates a significant information overload.
At Calinda Software, we created a technology that dynamically builds maps from e-mails exchanged within a workgroup, regardless of type of e-mail people use, and without installing anything on their computers.
The resulting visual representation simplifies the identification of key information, decision making and capitalization of knowledge.
This solves the main productivity challenge in the knowledge economy.
Calinda finishes 2nd of the SharePoint SocialFest 2010 competition. Microsoft SharePoint Director says we address a very strong pain of customers
on January 29
Today, corporations are organized in projects with distributed teams, customers and partners. The dominant communication tools remain the e-mail and the telephone. The e-mail allows communicating more and faster, but it creates a significant information overload. At Calinda Software, we created a technology that dynamically builds maps from e-mails exchanged within a workgroup, regardless of type of e-mail people use, and without installing anything on their computers. The resulting visual representation simplifies the identification of key information, decision making and capitalization of knowledge. This solves the main productivity challenge in the knowledge economy, with a 10 to 20% gain.
Although the $4.4bn Team Collaboration Software market is growing 10-20% per year [Gartner] and about 100% of large and medium corporations purchased a platform, studies show a poor adoption rate by users of only 20%, while e-mail is used by 99%. Customers see this as a failure of their team collaboration software projects are looking for a better return on investment through an improved adoption rate.
MindUp Enterprise: Sell Software Licences, integration services and yearly maintenance to large companies. THe solution is integrated with the Enterprise collaboration platforms in place (such as Microsoft SharePoint) through connectors. Pricing: $30k-$500k, depending on number of users (50 to several ‘000s)
Distribution : MindUp Enterprise: distribute through software integrators. Sell a bundle with other software as complete solutions (collaboration platform+MindUp), along with integration services provided by resellers and partners (CAP GEMINI, ATOS ORIGIN, etc.).
MindUp Live: Sell monthly online Software service subscriptions to project teams, small companies and consultancies. Pricing €20 per user per month (max 100).
Calinda Software developed the patent-pending and award-winning C2IM technology, to capture, model and visualize collective knowledge on the fly. Using this technology allows to leverage and capitalize the vast amount of knowledge exchanged by e-mail within projects, in an non-intrusive way, regardless of the messaging applications the participants use. Its basic principle is to structure the messages people send to the project team, allow recipients to reply specifically on a given item or paragraph, and insert traceability codes to allow MindUp to retrieve the context and thread structured discussions.
The resulting model of e-mail discussions can be used to improve the performance and reliability of non-deterministic analysis techniques (semantic, syntaxic, statistic, etc.) by using the structure of the analyzed knowledge as a heuristic.
Alex Mermod, 33, Co-founder & CEO: Alex previously was the CTO of Bee Ware ($9m raised with Sofinnova Partners, acquisition and integration of a 20 people competitor), a manager at BMC Software and an Engineer at Sun Microsystems in Palo Alto. He holds a diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Seb Bassompierre, 33, Co-founder & CTO: Seb has many years of experience with the most advanced technologies (Java/J2EE, XML, etc.). He was one of the authors of the industry leading PATROL Visualis and BSM Discovery software products at BMC Software. Seb also taught Java development at the University of Avignon.
Ray Bouchet, 40, Sales Manager: Ray joined Calinda in March 09 after a successful career in selling major software from Computer Associates, Software AG, Microfocus in France. Ray brings his experience in selling to large corporations, his relentless positive energy and his business development skills.
Chris Guyard, 45, Co-founder & Business Angel: Chris brings his experience of business, management and entrepreurship, as well as his business contacts. He is currently the CEO of Bee Ware, which he co-founded and for which he secured more than $9m of VC funding from Sofinnova Partners. As a true Serial Entrepreneur, he previously founded Axians and headed several companies inside the Vinci Group.
Board of advisors: 9 major business figures took a stake in Dec 08 and help the company in its development.
Strong patent on the specific technique used to track and structure e-mail exchanges in a team, regardless of the e-mail people use and without requiring any installation.
Working with our CTO Seb, you will be
responsible for the design and development of the future versions of
our flagship product MindUP for SharePoint. Specifically, we will be
responsible for the development of this product for SharePoint 2010, a
strategic move for Calinda Software. You will have the opportunity to
travel to the USA to meet the SharePoint Development teams at MICROSOFT
and cooperate with them.
I met Alex at Innovate!Europe (produced by Guidewire) in Zaragoza, Spain. Alex is very impressive. He's smart. He understands his business. And he's very assertive. All the good traits for a CEO. Moreover, Calinda is in an interesting space. The company's product is similar to what Xobni, and to some extent Xoopit, is offering. No one has dominated the space to organize email. So, Calinda has a good chance to capture market share.
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Finalist in Summer of Innovation $2,000 to $25,000 Competition
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