Keepme, the AI-powered sale and marketing platform, created to help operators increase their income, has recently closed its first funding round at $1.7m. The funding will be used to support the continued growth of the organisation and product development.
This announcement comes at a time when despite the challenges of the pandemic, Keepme has managed to continue adding new customers, welcoming Styles Studios Fitness and Atmosphere Health & Fitness Club on board in August alone. Keepme will provide both operators with extensive insights, suggested actions and the tools to drive measurable improvements.. Keepme has also been able to evolve their offering even further over the course of the last few months with the release of v2,including insights and tools for membership sales as well as retention, supporting operators through every step of their customer life cycle.
This recent success over the lockdown period has also seen new editions to the Keepme team with Dan Tagliere and Natasha Foong joining the Keepme board and Amanda Hart joining as Director of Customer Success.
Both Tagliere and Foong join with a wealth of knowledge between them. Tagaliere has spent the last 15 years building a highly successful property and investment business, Macau Land Developments, and has held C-Suite Level positions for the likes of UBS and Marriot International. As the co-founder and managing partner of IncuVest Pte Ltd, Foong has over 30 years’ experience in Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, and Management Including being the founder of Singapore’s first budget airline.
Amanda Hart joins Keepme with over 25 years’ experience in the health & fitness sector having worked for the likes of Fitness First, Soho Gym’s and The Gym Group in various Business Development, Operations and Senior Management roles. She joins Keepme as their newly appointed Director of Customer Success and will be responsible for the implementation and delivery of the platform at customer sites. Along with managing the support function, Amanda will play a key role in working with customers to understand how they use Keepme, and ensuring it meets their ongoing requirements. .
“Despite the challenges of this lockdown period, Keepme has seen some great successes and continued to grow. The investment will allow us to invest in the resources to continue our development that has seen us gain customers in eight countries in the last twelve months,” says Ian Mullane, Founder & CEO of Keepme. “I’d also like to welcome our newest board members Natasha and Dan as well as Amanda to the Keepme team. Between the three of them they have a wealth of invaluable knowledge that will be very valuable for us in this exciting next phase of our development and I look forward to having them on board with us.”
