{"id":6191,"date":"2016-09-21T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T15:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2018-06-06T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T09:56:25","slug":"marketing-technology-business-secures-10m-investment-smedvig-capital-fuel-international-growth-reinforce-leadership-position-call-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=6191","title":{"rendered":"Marketing Technology Business Secures \u00a310m Investment from Smedvig Capital to Fuel International Growth and Reinforce its Leadership Position in Call Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Infinity Tracking Ltd (\u201cInfinity\u201d) www.infinity.co<\/a>, one of the fastest growing marketing technology businesses in the UK, and a market leader in call tracking, today announced that it has secured \u00a310 million of funding from Smedvig Capital.<\/p>\n

Call tracking evolved from the need to identify which online marketing campaign investment delivers real sales. Infinity enables clients to track calls from their website and analyse exactly which marketing activity resulted in which sales and optimises the chance of those sales closing.<\/p>\n

The strength of the market opportunity for Infinity is evidenced by rapidly increasing search and display advertising spend across the world, combined with ever increasing calls to businesses \u2013 US market growing 16% p.a. to 160 billion calls in 2019 \u2013 driven by smart phone usage according to BIA \/ Kelsey. <\/p>\n

Infinity has already established itself as a pioneer in call tracking, supporting marketing, sales and operations across a strong client base in the UK and US. It has excellent agency partnerships, strong technology and broad third party integrations. This investment will facilitate further product innovation and allow the business to continue to build on its drive for customer success.<\/p>\n

Paul Walsh, Infinity\u2019s CEO, previously created one the UK\u2019s fastest growing independent digital agencies and founded Infinity when they couldn\u2019t find a call tracking solution for their own clients. Paul commented: \u201cInfinity has been bootstrapped to date but we have still managed to grow extremely rapidly. This injection of funding will now enable us to invest heavily in our product offering and accelerate our US expansion plans.\u201d <\/p>\n

Warren Newbert recently joined the business as COO with considerable experience of working with high growth, venture backed, technology businesses. Warren commented: \u201cInfinity is already a successful business but the opportunity for growth is limitless and potentially we will look to acquire other technology or people as well as pursuing our ambitious organic plans.\u201d <\/p>\n

Jon Lerner, Managing Director at Smedvig Capital, commented: \u201cWe are excited to be backing Paul, Warren and their team as the business starts to rapidly build on a very solid base in the UK and US. They have a great team, a strong market position and a clear vision of where the business is going. We are very much looking forward to working closely together to build a category leader.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Infinity Tracking Ltd (\u201cInfinity\u201d) www.infinity.co, one of the fastest growing marketing technology businesses in the UK, and a market leader in call tracking, today announced that it has secured \u00a310 million of funding from Smedvig Capital.<\/p>\n

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