charles
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$20M
1 round on record
Latest round
$20M
Venture round · Jul 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Accel, Activant Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
51 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
13/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2022 | $20M | — | TechCrunch |
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Accel 
Activant Capital 
CoCo Finance 
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Overview
charles is a Berlin software company founded in 2020 that runs commerce and marketing over messaging apps. Its platform connects WhatsApp to shop and customer relationship systems so brands can sell and support conversationally at scale. The company serves European retail and consumer brands.
News
Start-up Charles: So soll Einkaufen per WhatsApp funktionieren
Das Start-up Charles hat 20 Millionen Dollar Risikokapital bekommen. Die Gründer wollen Chat-Apps als Verkaufskanal zum Durchbruch verhelfen.
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Charles nabs $20M to bring conversational commerce to WhatsApp
Charles pitches itself as a full, end-to-end product spanning backend and interface, connecting APIs from messaging services with popular e-commerce and CRM
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Charles: Einkaufen über Whatsapp soll für größere Warenkörbe sorgen
Ein innovatives Einkaufserlebnis über Chat-Apps will die Conversational-Commerce-Lösung Charles bieten.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at charles over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
85/100
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
47/100
Stable
Open positions
2
1 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
109 days
faster than 11% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
100% ▲
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Berlin
Berlin
Germany
HQ
Berlin
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Early Careers
Financials
Total raised
$20M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | $20M | Details |