28. trumpet: sales software to help customer relationships sing

trumpet creates ‘digital sales rooms’ that centralise the buyer journey within one, collaborative workspace.

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Founders: Nick Telson, Rory Sadler, and Andrew Webster 
Year founded: 2021
Website: sendtrumpet.com

Sales teams today need to organise reams of information to keep clients up-to-date. They may have to send hundreds of emails, PDFs, or links to demo recordings, web pages, and calendars. Keeping track, not to mention presenting this professionally, is near impossible.

trumpet’s founding team has come up with a novel solution to the issue. It is attempting to centralise the whole sales cycle into collaborative, digital sales rooms called ‘Pods’. 

Rather than a shared Dropbox, both parties can instead log into personalised microsites via the trumpet platform. Picture it: all of your calendar events, videos, use cases, business documents, contracts, product information, accessible through a single, editable link.

Telson and Webster are no strangers to the Startups 100. Together, they set up the hospitality booking platform DesignMyNight, which featured in our 2014 Index, and successfully scaled it to an eight-figure exit in 2017. 

This time round, however, their tech expertise is complemented by specialist Rory Sadler, who was sales lead at behavioural analytics platform, Hotjar. Over a coffee in 2020, the trio came up with the idea for trumpet, and it instantly gained traction.

Thanks to an early marketing push to educate their audience on Pods (remember folks, if you call yourself trumpet, you’re going to have toot that horn in every press image) trumpet’s roster of clients already includes Oyster, PayFit, Employment Hero, and CrossBeam. Last year, the platform also secured £4.9m in a seed funding round. 

There is no reason why digital sales rooms couldn’t also become customer meeting rooms, onboarding workshops, and even brainstorming sessions. trumpet’s tune could be played across not just the entire sales pipeline, but all B2B communications.

They won’t blow their own, so we’ll do it for them; we’re certain trumpet will be one of the fastest growing UK startups in 2025. Now, play us out…

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