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When the pandemic hit a year ago in March, Denver-based data startup Flatfile found itself in the enviable position of already having a fully remote team. Its 32 employees are scattered across the U.S., the U.K., and Argentina.
Though many companies take advantage of the flexibility that comes with a distributed workforce, Flatfile is investing heavily in its workers, and has the receipts to prove it.
The Flatfile team enjoys a handful of perks aimed at making remote work more enjoyable, including top-of-the-line, ergonomic workstations. Employees who rent space also get a stipend equivalent to the average cost of 150 square feet of real estate in their area. To qualify for the stipend, all they have to do is repurpose a room that s 150 square feet or smaller as a dedicated Flatfile-only home office.
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Flatfile announced Wednesday that it raised $35 million in funding led by Scale Venture Partners.
Flatfile s founders worked together at Envoy and started the software as a side project.
Flatfile helps customers with onboarding customer data, and it has customers like Toast and HubSpot.
While David Boskovic and Eric Crane were working at office software startup Envoy in 2017, they couldn t believe how hard it was to handle and clean up the firm s data.
So, out of that personal frustration they rage designed a side project, which they called Flatfile, that could automatically organize and format data.
Boskovic quit Envoy to focus on the project full-time in December 2018 and the firm just announced a $35 million Series A round on Wednesday led by Scale Venture Partners. The firm s total funding is $42.6 million; it now has a valuation of $185 million. After launching in June, Flatfile has already raked in 300 customers, including To