Lemonado, a Sweden-founded no-code platform that permits anybody to construct customized enterprise apps with ease, has raised €1.2 million in seed funding. Lemonado, co-founded by early Trustly staff members, is the go-to instrument for non-developers who wish to construct enterprise software program to automate their work and streamline enterprise processes. Lemonado’s largest market is at the moment the US.
The funding can be used to drive worldwide product-led development by increasing Lemonado’s technological improvement, service providing, and group engagement groups. It will embody extra senior builders, in addition to development hackers and content material entrepreneurs.
The spherical was led by Nordic enterprise capital agency node.vc with participation from Alexander Aghassipour, co-founder of Zendesk and companion at Nordic Makers. Chris Albinsson, node.vc companion and co-founder, can be becoming a member of the Lemonado board.
node.vc companion Chris Albinsson, commented: “We see large potential in Lemonado and align with their mission to automate arduous duties and construct what they want, shaping the trendy office by giving staff easy-to-use instruments that make work easier and extra collaborative. Investing within the enabling of smarter work is considered one of Node’s predominant funding theses and Lemonado is an excellent instance of this with excessive influence potential. We additionally just like the staff’s product-led development strategy, which we’re already seeing early proof-points of.”
Nordic Makers companion and Zendesk co-founder Alexander Aghassipour, added: “With my very own deep understanding of software program, Lemonado’s imaginative and prescient for the way forward for work is each compelling and thrilling. There are parallels between their founding journey and my very own with Zendesk – seeing the issue first-hand and getting on with constructing the answer. Nordic Makers is happy to assist Albert, Daniel, and Rikard on their journey.”
Lemonado is designed for non-developers and companies that work with information however lack the price range or expertise to rent improvement groups or write their very own code. Realising that the usual software program suite of spreadsheets and powerpoint will finally be enhanced by AI-native software program and brokers, Lemonado goals to speed up this shift by providing subsequent technology instruments, freed from builders, that use AI to automate tedious elements of contemporary workflows corresponding to information visualisation and dealing with.
Lemonado generates apps with wealthy UIs and spectacular dataset integrations; customers can robotically relate and sync information throughout a number of sources corresponding to Hubspot, Postgres, and Google Sheets. The platform allows reside information, in portions as excessive as thousands and thousands of entries, to be computed on a continuing foundation – one thing distinctive to Lemonado. The platform employs a ‘constructing block’ mechanism, offering customers with simply implementable ‘out the field’ functionalities.
Present prospects embody The Octopus Membership, WorkTripp, and Planhat. The corporate was based out of a earlier enterprise, Passbuy, which scaled to have over 100,000 customers however in the end didn’t develop quick sufficient to succeed. Taking these classes on board, founding staff Albert Lundberg (CEO), Rikard Javelind, and Daniel Angelhoff (each builders – and early core Trustly staff) constructed Lemonado in response to points they skilled first-hand.
Albert, a product supervisor, personally witnessed the sluggish and inefficient processes related to dealing with massive information units, turning into aware of simply how a lot repetitive work may very well be automated if given the fitting instruments. Whereas Rikard and Daniel had skilled calls for on their time growing as builders working inside quickly scaling organisations.
Lemonado co-founder and CEO Albert Lundberg, stated: “Standard methods of working with information are outdated and cumbersome. We’re within the decade of information, we should incorporate extra automation so as to keep and improve productiveness. Lemonado exists to offer people who find themselves the closest to the issue the instruments to resolve that very concern. We’re right here to empower folks to construct the answer, freed from code and the necessity for a developer, utilizing firm information to automate work. Lemonado is probably the most versatile instrument in its area. It’s been actually thrilling to see our customers begin their tasks with small use instances and broaden them in methods we had by no means imagined. Thanks to our buyers, node.vc, Nordic Makers, Antler, and angels, for supporting our imaginative and prescient to assist folks work sooner and smarter.”
