Twenty has raised two small funding rounds representing $5 million in total with around 50 different investors, including Mathilde Collin (Front founder), Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot founder), Pierre Burgy and Aurélien Georget (Strapi founders), and Sergei Anikin (former CEO/CTO at Pipedrive). The company is also backed by Runa Capital, Y Combinator and Automattic.
“People often don’t understand why Salesforce is so big, so powerful,” Malfait said. Salesforce, as a platform, is a flexible data model, a programming language called Apex to execute code on Salesforce’s servers and a front-end customization framework.
“So when you have these three bricks you can store data, do logic on the back end, and display the result as you like,” Malfait said. “It means that you can do everything. And that’s what we want to enable in the long term.”