ClickFuel Inc., a Boston-based provider of Internet marketing services to small and mid-sized businesses, announced it has raised $2.5 million in a Series A financing, led by Baird Venture Partners.
ClickFuel was founded in 2008 and is led by former Monster Worldwide senior executive Steve Pogorzelski, CEO of ClickFuel. Prior to joining ClickFuel, Pogorzelski spent over ten years at Monster Worldwide, parent company of Monster.com, including stints as EVP-Sales, President of Monster North America and Group President, International. The company was started by the former co-founder of AuctionPal, Colby West.
Pogorzelski has assembled a team of several other former executives from Monster Worldwide, including Brian Farrey, former President of Monster Technologies, Rob Hayes, former VP Finance Global Sales, David Lynch, former Director of Sales, and most recently Denise Cautela, former Senior Director of Marketing, Emerging Markets.
Leveraging their experience at Monster Worldwide in servicing the SMB segment, the ClickFuel team has developed a suite of solutions to help SMBs build an online presence and reach more potential customers via the Web.
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June 25th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Umm, what do they actually do?
June 26th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Let me get this straight: Baird gave $2.5m to the folks that feel asleep at Monster’s wheel because they have a great idea to start a *web design shop*? This is like 1995. Deja vu all over again…
June 26th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
“… the ClickFuel team has developed a suite of solutions to help SMBs (small/medium businesses) build an online presence and reach more potential customers via the Web” — seems pretty clear to me.
This is a great team, and Steve is an excellent leader. I suspect ClickFuel will be a successful venture.
June 26th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
@Jackson
Shows you know nothing. Steve Pog was an excellent leader at Monster. Things started to get worse once he left. Monster just sucks as an organization.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Congrats Steve et al…hope you take employers from Monster one after another!