Product Reports Resources Pricing Login Book a demo
COMPANY PROFILE

Future Simple

Explore full profile

Base, a crm and sales tracking software application for small businesses

Chicago, United StatesFounded 2009Marketing
Valuation $100–250M Last recorded · 2015
Headcount <100 Current team size
Total funding $50–100M Disclosed equity funding
Unlock exact values This page shows ranges. Dealroom has the exact numbers for Future Simple and the history behind them.

About Future Simple

FutureSimple Inc. was a company that developed Base, a sales productivity platform. The company was acquired by Zendesk in 2018. Base was designed to provide a modern sales solution with integrated tools for communication, lead scoring, and reporting, primarily targeting small businesses.

The platform offered a suite of features including inbound marketing, sales tracking, management, invoicing, and accounting solutions. The business model was likely a subscription-based Software as a Service (SaaS), where clients would pay a recurring fee for access to the platform.

Source: Dealroom company data

At a glance

Status
Operational
Founded
2009
Headquarters
Chicago, United States
Employees
4
Open positions
None listed
Dealroom signal
67.5/100
Industry
Marketing
Sub-industry
CRM & Sales
Sector
Marketing
Client focus
b2b

Funding history

4 recorded events

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
SERIES COther financing Jul 2015 $30M $120M Hyde Park Angels —
SERIES BOther financing Feb 2014 $15M $60M Hyde Park Angels —
Showing the latest 2 of 4 recorded eventsBook a demo for the full funding history →

Growth signals

Future Simple website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Future Simple is 25K monthly website visits, down 10.7% over the last three months. Future Simple's team declined 20% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits25K 3-month web change-10.7% 1-year team growth-20%
Summary metrics are public; monthly history is available with a demoCompare with peers →

Similar companies

Closest operating peers by Dealroom taxonomy

Company identity and context are open; selected comparison metrics preview what is available on the platform.

Showing 8 of the closest matchesCompare every metric →

Investments and acquisitions

Capital deployed

Recent portfolio relationships for companies that also act as investors or acquirers.

Investors

4 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A4 investors entered at this stage

Team profiled 4 named & role-tagged
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 1 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia Hidden — book a demo alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
1 countries with
team presence
🇫🇷 France100%
1 country shown

Market sentiment

Posts on X, past 7 days

An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Future Simple on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

See Future Simple’s full profile on Dealroom

Request a free trial to see the complete deal history, financials, people graph and growth signals.

Takes under a minute. Already use Dealroom? Log in.