Mark Schopmeyer spent two weeks working until 2 a.m. to pay a 30-person sales team. CaptivateIQ grew from that expensive spreadsheet lesson into software that links the sales plan to the paycheck.
Varicent turns territories, quotas, commissions, and seller data into one governed revenue system. The payoff is control over complexity; the bill includes software, implementation, and the organizational discipline to make the model work.
Akoonu is a Salesforce-native revenue intelligence company that helps B2B sales teams inspect their pipeline and build trustworthy forecasts without sending data to an external platform. Its RevWorks suite - covering pipeline reviews, forecasting, deal reviews, quota management, scenario modeling and an AI assistant called Oonu - runs 100% inside Salesforce, installs in under an hour, and positions itself as enterprise-grade forecasting without the enterprise price tag. Founded by serial entrepreneur Jeff Freund and based in Livingston, Montana, the company raised an $8M Series A in 2017 and counts enterprises like Honeywell, Thales and Avery Dennison among its customers.