Central Desktop Takes $7 Million

Nice.. and centraldesktop a very useful service.. (we use them quite often)..
Congrats!

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Congrats to the team. They built it up themselves the hard way, with real paying customers.

Greetings from the entire World http://daslive.blogspot.com

Cool..CentralDesktop makes business easy! Kudos to you guys.

37 signals could use some competition. I signed up for Basecamp and did a test run. I was really underwhelmed by what it could do.

Kudos to OpenView for a good investment!

Looks like a SharePoint copy to me.

What? OpenView is using this app themselv? So the CentralDesktop guys can read all their stuff? No wonder they got founded

Congratulations to Central Desktop! EditGrid is proud to be their partner and powering their online spreadsheet feature.

Congrats, Isaac!!

Congrats to Central Desktop. i haven’t try it yest but i will. I use ProjectOffice.net for managing my projects and tasks. It also provides Time management, Expense management, Issues tracking and knowledge sharing through Wikis. Actually it provides all-in-one functionality.
I strongly recommend it, since it is completely FREE of charge.

Good work to the CD guys - the space is certainly hotting up! I’d advise people to also look at http://www.huddle.net - a slightly different spin on the collaboration theme

JotSpot= Google Sites. Isn’t a difficult market with player like Google and Microsoft?

I feel sorry for the investors. You just through away 7M. Yea you got a post on TC now what about the other 1K posts where arrington blindly slobbers over how great google docs is and how seamless the experience is, collaboration space is over. Even 37signals is in big trouble , they just don’t know it yet.

woops *threw* away not through

This is a huge market and the opportunity will only grow as users abandon expensive desktop apps like MS Project in favor of SaaS offerings. Projjex.com in particular is a great new offering in this space.

We have been using CentralDesktop for the last 18 months to collaborate with clients and have been delighted with their service and impressed by how they organize the “honeycomb model” of their workspaces. It works particularly well when you are running several projects in parallel and want to have “firewalls” between them for access: client A cannot see client B’s work, and vice versa. They also do a better job of “contention management” than most which is especially important as you are collaborating closely against a deadline. Nothing can shatter team dynamics faster than the ability to inadvertently over-write someone else’s work.

@anonyjoe I think we are still close to the 1% point on what small team collaboration environments look like. The “small team moving fast” looks very different outside the enterprise rather than inside the enterprise and is much more empowered by a cloud computing model that allows for easy inclusion of suppliers, customers, and partners. In particular CentralDesktop’s pricing model (based on workspace count not user count) allows us to run more than 100 workspaces at a very effective price point. As a happy side effect from their perspective, it makes it viral because we are then willing to use them with everyone we collaborate with, some of whom decide to get their own (or transfer ownership at the end of a project).

Congratulations Isaac and Arnulf!

We too have been very happy users of Central Desktop. And, with the new Security Package (with Single Sign-on for access to other applications) Central Desktop will become a central component of our technology stack. Thanks guys!

CentralDesktop is a great combination of open-ended wiki and structured collaboration tools. I tested the most popular collaboration sites including Basecamp, SocialText, Confluence, and others and CentralDesktop won hands down for providing a novice-user usable collaboration site with advanced functionality (project mgmt with milestone tracking, relational databases, automatic web-form html creation that can be embedded in a page, etc.) that the other sites could duplicate. And I tried my best to give each site a fair shot.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their support of Central Desktop in this comment thread. Its much appreciated. I recognize the names of many of you and have probably spoken with all of you at some time. Thank you.

For all of the naysayers and pessimists out there - my only response is that this isn’t a zero-sum game. Our industry, including many VCs and bloggers, tend to look at business and success only in binary terms.

As @JamesC and @SeanMurphy have already stated, the collaboration industry (particularly in the SMB market) is large, wide, green and still growing. If you don’t see it, nor believe it (and if you listen to what everyone else is saying and writing) then you probably aren’t an entrepreneur (nor a hacker).

Entrepreneurship and business is about odds. Its about overcoming them, in spite of everyone believing that markets are a winner takes all scenario.

My advice when dealing odds and numbers is to make sure that the deck you are working with is stacked in your favor.

Isaac Garcia
Central Desktop

Congrats CD.
After months of searching, and continual disappointment with Basecamp, we were very happy to settle on CD. I have continuously been impressed by their application and look forward to the new features that this $7 mill will help fund.

Thanks for working on something simple and to the point.

Cheers,
SAul

looking forward to try the new stuff that the fund on 7 mill will bring

Congrats to the CD team. They have a great product and are awesome to work with. Google docs is great, google sites has promise, but they aren’t packaged together for enterprise-grade team/project collaboration very well yet. There’s plenty of room for other tools like CD and I have to agree with Isaac, the market is “wide, green, and growing”.

Congratulations CD!

- From the DeskAway
team on the other side of the world