Not Yet Graduated from JFDI, Collabspot Already Grabs Seed Funding

JFDI’s demo day for its 2013 batch of startups it still a week away, but already one of the seven startups has some good news. Collabspot, the sales email platform, has agreed upon a management buy-in worth S$100,000 (US$79,000) by Laurent Gasser, co-founder at Revevol.

Collabspot is the first of JFDI’s newest soon-to-be-graduates to secure seed funding. The platform combines Gmail with customer relations management (CRM) tools like HighRise.

There’s a synergy between Collabspot and Mr. Gasser’s area, which is reselling Google Apps for enterprises. Gasser will now sit on Collabspot’s board. Founder Jeremi Joslin says in today’s announcement:

Laurent generously gave his time to Collabspot as a mentor through the JFDI.Asia accelerator program. It was immediately apparent that his experience as the first non-American to be trained to provide Google Apps solutions, even before they were launched, could give us a huge boost as we scale up worldwide. Laurent and I found ourselves working well together and it’s now a huge honour that he has agreed to join me to help lead the business in an executive role.

Gassler points out that Collabspot “approaches break-even on its fixed costs” and adds that it already has great traction.