Could Front rescue our love/hate relationship with email?
Front co-founders Mathilde Collin and Laurent Perrin
Email can be the bane of our existence especially when it comes to work email. A new app called Front allows you to make more sense of the emails that are streaming into your company’s email inboxes. Whenever you receive an email to your group email accounts, like sales@, jobs@, contact@ or support@ email addresses, Front will work as the front desk of your company and help you coordinate your responses. When an email comes through, it will appear in your team member’s Front accounts. From there you can comment or assign the email to someone else, helping to manage your tasks.
Front sounds like the perfect, user-friendly solution to address your productivity issues, but like all good things, it comes at a cost. While there’s no cost involved for two users managing one shared inbox (includes email or Twitter which Front refers to as inboxes), you’ll have to pay for more accounts. To get up to five inboxes, the price is $29 a month (this includes three users, with additional users costing $9 extra a month per user). For unlimited shared inboxes you will pay $99 (this includes five users with additional users costing $19 extra a month per user).
Front came out of the French start-up studio, eFounders. Its co-founders Mathilde Collin and Laurent Perrin have relocated to San Francisco, while the rest of the team remains in France.
The startup just raised $3.1 million with investments coming from SoftTech VC, VC firms BOLDStart, Point Nine Capital and Caffeinated Capital. There is also a long list of angel investors including Kevin Hale and Aaron Harris from Y Combinator, Kissmetrics’ Hiten Shah, Echosign’s Jason Lemkin, Slow Ventures’ Dave Morin, Geoff Ralston, Jeff Bonforte and Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, among others.
The company is experiencing some amazing growth currently. Over the last three months, their average revenue growth has been between 10 and 15 percent per week.
There are many products that are constantly being launched that help with email productivity. Could Front be just another one to add to the list? Front differs in that it allows you to tackle email from a multiplayer perspective. It also has an initial free tier, which many rival products lack. For companies who receive a lot of email, there could be an opportunity for Front to become an indispensable tool.
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