Qwilr secures $7.25m to help businesses win more customers from anywhere.

AirTree Ventures leads the Series A round, with Skip Capital and Typeform founder Robert Muñoz joining returning investors to help accelerate Qwilr’s global expansion.

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May 4, 2020 — Qwilr, the document design and automation tool, has secured $7.25m in a Series A funding round from AirTree Ventures, Skip Capital, Typeform co-founder Robert Muñoz and other investors. The new funding will help Qwilr accelerate expansion into the US and Europe, and evolve the product to make customer communication even more seamless.

Previous investors Point Nine Capital, Right Click Capital, and Macdoch Ventures also re-invested in the round.

Qwilr makes it easy to create beautiful, intelligent and interactive sales documents, like proposals, quotes and pitches. As companies everywhere shift to remote working, sales teams are finding that PDFs and Powerpoints lack the collaboration, automation, interactivity and customer intelligence they need. Qwilr integrates with essential business tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and Xero, to automate essential business tasks for efficiency, from creating new proposals to updating CRMs. In-depth analytics give sales reps insight on how and when prospects are interacting with your documents.“Quite simply, Qwilr helps companies stand out from the crowd and win more business” said Qwilr co-founder and CEO Dylan Baskind.

“While incredible innovation in enterprise software is enabling teams to collaborate remotely, customer communication — the lifeblood of any business — is still stuck in the stone age. Qwilr makes it quick and easy to create bold, visually-striking and interactive documents that drive consistency, efficiency and increased close rates for every sales team. It’s more important than ever that customer communication moves from the 1980s into the 2020s” said Qwilr co-founder and COO Mark Tanner.

Born in Sydney, Qwilr previously raised $2 million to build a fast-growing SaaS business akin to other modern document startups like Airtable and Notion. Thousands of companies from more than 60 countries now use Qwilr.

At a time when many economies and businesses are contracting, the new investment round will enable Qwilr to accelerate growth through more engineering and product talent in Australia, and expand its customer facing teams in Europe and the US.

“It boggles my mind that sales and marketing reps still send PDFs to potential customers. The traditional business document suite is antiquated, clunky and lacking basic functionality, which should be table stakes in the age of the cloud and is even more imperative in a remote working economy. Having seen how much customers love the product, we are confident Qwilr’s smart, connected and beautiful documents will revolutionise the way businesses communicate. We are delighted to be backing such a strong company led by Dylan and Mark, and excited to support them build the documents of the future.”
John Henderson, Partner at Airtree Ventures

“The passion that Dylan and Mark have for transforming the way we communicate is inspiring. Just as Airtable is reinventing the spreadsheet, Qwilr is creating an entirely new form of communication without the inhibitions and obstacles older formats have.."
Kim Jackson, Founder at Skip Capital

John Henderson (AirTree), Dylan Baskind (Qwilr), Mark Tanner (Qwilr), Elicia McDonald (AirTree)

About Qwilr

Qwilr is reimagining the way you communicate with clients.

We help anyone create beautiful, intuitive sales and marketing documents that look impressive and integrate seamlessly with your business. Our mission is to build the most effective way to communicate on the web — simply, creatively and efficiently. We believe in building the leading platform for you to represent your best professional self — and we’re committed to making complex design and technology simple and enjoyable to use. Whether it’s creating a seamless proposal to win the job you want, or making a report reflecting on the work you’ve done, Qwilr has world-class templates to bring the web to life for your business.

Qwilr was founded and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

For more information, visit qwilr.com.

About AirTree

AirTree is a venture capital fund with a mission to help the most game-changing Australian and Kiwi technology entrepreneurs achieve their vision. As one of the largest VC funds in the region with over half a billion dollars under management, AirTree aims to back startups from the earliest moments in their first funding round, often pre-revenue, and has the firepower to continue supporting successful companies over multiple, subsequent rounds.

AirTree’s 2014 and 2016 vintage funds are both performing in the top quartile of US VCs. They include early investments in break-out companies such as Prospa, Secure Code Warrior, Pet Circle, Canva, Athena, Brighte, Joyous, Drone Deploy, Thematic, Transcelestial, Expert360 and A Cloud Guru.
With the largest and most experienced venture team in the region, AirTree offers founders much more than just money with their suite of value-add services including recruitment, expertise, connections and advocacy.