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SmarTrak.ai named Cisco Americas DSI Innovation Partner of the Year 2024 Closes multimillion-dollar round led by Granite co-founder Rand Currier Unifies install-base data from 30-40 sources into one prescriptive engine Built by Cisco partners, for Cisco partners Live from Cisco Live 2025 - San Diego SmarTrak.ai named Cisco Americas DSI Innovation Partner of the Year 2024 Closes multimillion-dollar round led by Granite co-founder Rand Currier Unifies install-base data from 30-40 sources into one prescriptive engine Built by Cisco partners, for Cisco partners Live from Cisco Live 2025 - San Diego
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FIG. 1 - The mark. Two tracks, one destination.
Company Profile • AI • SaaS • Quincy, MA

SmarTrak.ai

The AI-native sales engine that reads a Cisco partner's entire install base - and says what to sell next.

Founded 2022 ~14 people Cisco channel Angel-funded
The Scene

It is the last week of the quarter, and somewhere a Cisco partner's account manager has thirty-one browser tabs open. One shows contract expirations. Another shows subscription usage. A third is a spreadsheet a colleague swears is current. The renewal that mattered was in none of them - it lapsed on Tuesday, unnoticed, and walked out the door to a competitor who simply asked first.

This is the problem SmarTrak.ai was built to erase. Not with another dashboard - the account manager already has too many of those - but with an answer. The platform quietly ingests data from thirty to forty sources across Cisco, distributors, partners, and customers, then hands back a single sentence a salesperson can act on: sell this, to them, this week.

SmarTrak calls itself the first AI-native sales engine for the Cisco channel. That phrase does a lot of work. "AI-native" means the intelligence isn't bolted on; it's the point. "Sales engine," not "reporting tool," because reports describe the past and a quarter is closed in the present tense.

At a glance

SmarTrak.ai is a B2B SaaS platform for Cisco channel partners. It unifies fragmented install-base, contract, and subscription data and turns it into prescriptive, next-best-action guidance.

HQ: Quincy, Massachusetts
West Coast: Moraga, California
Legal: SmarTrak.io, LLC

Above: The SmarTrak mark - two parallel tracks, blue and orange, curving up into a single form. Read it as data lines converging into one view.

30-40Data sources unified
2024Cisco Innovation Partner of the Year
~14People on the team
$M+Strategic round, Dec 2024
What It Actually Does

Dashboards report. SmarTrak prescribes.

The install base - every switch, license, service contract, and subscription a customer owns - is the most valuable dataset a Cisco partner has and the hardest to see. It lives in Cisco's systems (CCW-R, Enterprise Agreements, Subscriptions, Lifecycle Advantage), in distributor feeds, in the partner's own CRM, and in the customer's memory. SmarTrak's job is to pull those threads into one map and then reason over it.

STEP 01 / INGEST

Unify

Connect Cisco data sources plus partner and customer uploads. Automatic daily updates keep the install base current.

STEP 02 / REASON

Find the gaps

AI flags overlaps, risks, expiring contracts, and expansion openings - then ranks them by value.

STEP 03 / ACT

Prescribe

Role-specific playbooks tell Sales, CX, and Ops what to sell, when, and how to grow adoption.

"Instead of static dashboards, SmarTrak.ai tells partners what to sell, when to sell it, and how to grow adoption." — SmarTrak.ai product positioning
The Toolkit

Five moving parts, one growth engine

01

SmartMap & SmartBudget

Visualize the install base with product data, lifecycle stages, and contract expirations - and forecast renewals and budgets in real time so no invoice is a surprise.

02

Install Base Intelligence

Surface gaps, overlaps, and risks across accounts. Prioritize high-value prospects and protect the recurring revenue already in place.

03

Lifecycle Recommendations

Role-specific guidance in EA Workspace and SmartCS playbooks, with proactive health and renewal alerts and AI-ranked consumption forecasts.

04

Account Collaboration

One shared workspace for Sales, CX, Ops, and the customer - built to kill the silos where renewals and upsells go to die.

05

API Integrations

Direct connections to Cisco CCW-R, Subscriptions, EA, and Lifecycle Advantage, with automatic daily syncs.

Note: Partners have publicly ranged from top-5 Cisco resellers and national solution providers to regional health networks, universities, and a major food manufacturer. Specific customer names are not disclosed.

The Operators

Built by people who ran the renewals desk

SmarTrak's leadership didn't discover the channel from a pitch deck. They carry more than twenty years each building custom applications for partners - several are alumni of Cisco and MaintenanceNet, where they built the renewals automation the industry now takes for granted. The tool exists because they wanted it and it didn't.

Founder & CEO

20+ years building enterprise applications; focused on recurring-revenue strategy and customer visibility.

Stu Holloway
Co-Founder & COO

20+ years in revenue, operations, and customer success; specializes in subscription sales and channel programs.

Phillip Martin
VP of Product

15+ years automating partner businesses; prior roles at Cisco and MaintenanceNet.

Chris Feeney
VP Sales & Partnerships

SaaS sales leader with a track record scaling revenue inside the Cisco ecosystem.

Jay Pierce
VP Lifecycle & CS

20+ years in customer success and operations; Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

The Money
$M+
Strategic round • December 2024

Led by Rand Currier, co-founder of Granite Telecommunications. The undisclosed multimillion-dollar investment landed alongside new contracts with leading IT resellers - fuel for predictive-analytics work and go-to-market expansion. When a telecom operator who built a multibillion-dollar company writes the check, it's a read on the channel, not just the code.

The Record

A short, busy history

2022

SmarTrak.io, LLC founded to fix fragmented install-base data for Cisco partners.

2024 • NOV

Named Americas DSI Innovation Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit 2024.

2024 • DEC

Announces multimillion-dollar strategic funding led by Rand Currier plus new reseller contracts.

2025 • JUN

Ted Lee interviewed live from Cisco Live 2025 in San Diego on driving real revenue for partners.

2025 • AUG

Featured on Technology Reseller News: "Driving Double-Digit Growth for Cisco Partners and Beyond."

Marginalia

Five things worth knowing

Watch & Listen

Straight from the founder

The Scene, Revisited

Return to that account manager, last week of the quarter. The thirty-one tabs are closed. In their place is a single map: every product, every contract date, every subscription, ranked by what's at risk and what's ripe. The renewal that would have lapsed on Tuesday is flagged in red on Monday. The competitor never gets the chance to ask first.

That is the modest, unglamorous thing SmarTrak.ai does - it makes the invisible install base visible, and then it points. No superlatives required. A fourteen-person company in Quincy took the messiest dataset in the Cisco channel and turned it into a sentence a salesperson can act on. Cisco noticed. An investor who built a telecom noticed. The quarter, quietly, closes differently now.

"Unlock Revenue. Simplify Lifecycle. Accelerate Growth." — SmarTrak.ai
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Sources: smartrak.ai, BusinessWire, Telecom Reseller, Crunchbase, PitchBook, ZoomInfo, Lightwave, Pulse 2.0. Figures such as funding amount are described publicly as "multimillion-dollar" and are approximate.