Screenshot of DocLanding new homepage, doclanding.com
Since DocLanding made Silicon Prairie News’ headlines in September 2008 with its launch at the DEMO conference, we hadn’t heard too much about them in recent years. Earlier this month, however, the online document management provider fired up its Twitter account again and gave a preview of what came this week. “Watch for big news from DocLanding,” @doclanding tweeted on April 7.
The big news, as summarized with another tweet, came on April 15: “DocLanding relaunch! everything new – CEO, website, pricing; www.doclanding.com.” And in a follow up tweet, “a new round of growth capital.”
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Here are those items, one by one:
- CEO: Timothy Campbell, most recently with HighJump Software, joined DocLanding as CEO. Prior to HighJump, Cambell served as president of Symyx Software — during his tenure, Symyx grew to more than $100 million and successfully acquired and integrated MDL Information Systems — and CEO of Steelwedge Software, Industri-Matematik International and ePIT systems.
- Website: View new logo and layout at doclanding.com
- Pricing: View new pricing at doclanding.com
- Round of funding: In an email interview, Campbell told us DocLanding “closed the first tranche of $500,000 and will complete the round over the coming months.” DocLanding’s total amount raised to date, Campbell said, is just over $3 million.
With a web-based app that competes with Dropbox, which recently announced very impressive user and user acitivty numbers, and Box.net, DocLanding is gearing up to make a run at the market. Campbell said that DocLanding currently has more than 3,000 paid subscribers representing both individuals and enterprise (16 clients). DocLanding has more than 10,000 registered users, and that number is growing rapidly.
“Given our proven platform and referenceable customers,” Campbell said, “[DocLanding will] use the proceeds from the financing to take the company to market investing in marketing and sales, invest in continued feature development and customer service.”
The startup has less than 10 employees, and in addition to Campbell (left, photo courtesy of Campbell), co-founder Tu Nguyen serves on its management team as chief technology officer.
In the release, Campbell said he’s looking forward to using his extensive experience in leading technology companies to build on DocLanding’s success and take it to the next level. “DocLanding’s innovative solutions have proven themselves a hit with customers and opened a world of opportunity in this huge market,” Campbell said.
To learn more about this announcement and view a list of DocLanding’s key features, see the release: “DocLanding Announces Equity Investment and Appoints Industry Veteran CEO – Timothy Campbell“
