Glider
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Glider was a Portland-based startup founded in 2012 out of the TechStars Seattle accelerator. It built a SaaS product that brought structure and clarity to negotiating and signing sales and business contracts — replacing massive reply-all email threads and sprawling Excel trackers with a deal-flow dashboard for approvals, signatures and bottleneck reporting. The company raised $1.4 million in seed funding from True Ventures and TechStars, launched at Disrupt NY 2013, and was acquired by Dallas sales-software firm FPX in April 2014.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Glider is founded in Portland out of the TechStars Seattle accelerator with SaaS for contract and deal workflow.
- Product launch
Glider launches at Disrupt NY 2013 Startup Battlefield with contract approval, tracking and digital-signature SaaS.
- Acquisition
Dallas-based sales software company FPX acquires Glider, about a year after its Disrupt launch.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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