Sailthru is looking to accelerate that growth, by taking on the new funding, increasing headcount and opening new offices in strategic locations.
Sky management, by the way, firmly denies rumours that Sky News' budget or headcount is being cut overall – whether to pay for Stuart Murphy's well-funded Sky entertainment channels, or the breathtakingly costly new Premier League deal.
We doubled our revenue with an EBIT margin of 50%, more than doubled our headcount, established new offices and a New Business Ventures unit," said Rovio CFO Herkko Soininen in a statement.
At the peak of its growth in 2013, Rovio added 300 new employees taking its headcount to 800.
We doubled our revenue with an EBIT margin of 50%, more than doubled our headcount, established new offices and a New Business Ventures unit". said Rovio CFO Herkko Soininen.
The company says it will use the new capital to increase headcount in its R&D team and to grow its "customer success" teams across the U.K., U.S. and France in order to accelerate growth.
New hires are called "headcount" for a reason.
Patagonia also donated $200,000 to NextGen Climate, the nonprofit grassroots campaign group founded by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, and HeadCount, the New York-based nonprofit that registers voters at concerts and musical events.
According to a statement, the company will use the cash to further expand its sales and marketing activity, operational headcount, reach into new industry verticals and add new software integrations.
Beyond the ability to expand its headcount and enter new markets, Klein said the fresh cash would allow his company to attract bigger pools of capital.
