Tylr Mobile: Connected Mobile Work for the Enterprise

The way we work on the go is broken.  We’ve got these incredible computers in our pockets with dozens of mobile apps. The ones we actually use aren’t fit for the enterprise. The ones built for the enterprise aren’t fit to use. Each app is a complete silo. So where do we go? Back to email, which is a terrible place to try and get any work done.  And the entire organization suffers as a result. There’s got to be a better way.

That’s what we’re building at Tylr Mobile... an enterprise-ready mobile work platform connecting familiar tools for managing your mobile work with all the relevant information in your business systems.

We’re starting with the role that experiences the pain of mobile work more than most-- the salesperson.  Check out WorkinBox, a mobile inbox for salespeople that connects email and salesforce.com. You can sign up for the beta here.

Interested in joining a team passionable about changing how people work? Email jobs@tylrmobile.com... we’re hiring mobile developers!

Leadership Team

Ryan Nichols, CEO - Four-time entrepreneur, passionate about improving how people work. Led user growth at Podio (sold to Citrix), product at Appirio (Sequoia-backed cloud startup), and client services at an analytics startup. Background doing strategy at SAP, product at Intuit, consulting at McKinsey, and an MBA at Stanford. (LinkedIn)

Marlin Scott, CTO - Mobile architect and platform builder. Led mobile apps at Appirio. Co-founder and CTO of Kailea Networks (issued patent #8032620). Co-founder of Riscorian Networking. BS in Computer Science from University of California, Davis. (LinkedIn)

Kirk Crenshaw, CMO - Serial growth hacker for the enterprise. Led demand gen at Appirio and DemandBase, co-founder RevCatalyst, background in sales and business development. BS in Finance and Marketing from University of California, Berkeley. (LinkedIn)

Matthew Beebe, Design & UX - User-focused software designer. Product design work at IDEO, WebOS, the Rockmelt mobile browser, and Reputation.com. Appointed to the Kleiner Perkins "Design Council." Graduate work at Institute of Design. (LinkedIn)

Press and News

Cracking this enterprise mobility nut is Tylr Mobile. This San Mateo, California based startup has brought hope to disconnected sales road warriors. They’ve launched WorkinBox, a new mobile email inbox for salespeople connected to salesforce.com (now the market leading CRM).
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The first iPhone app WorkinBox is a mobile inbox for salespeople, and neatly integrates with email and Salesforce customer relationship management system. In future, the company will also plug in your calendar (personal and professional) and marketing automation tools, but CEO Ryan Nichols views email as an “untapped starting point.”
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Salespeople can sort their inbox by opportunity size, and access the information and files they need to resolve customer questions. They can turn messages into actionable tasks, and update salesforce.com as they work. It is designed to help bring value to sales organizations that spend $12 billion a year on CRM systems that don’t get used, especially on the go.
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In particular, because the iOS email app organizes messages in chronological order, important messages from or about clients are often buried under irrelevant work messages or spam. Salespeople find themselves jumping back and forth between a mobile CRM app and their email inbox to figure out what's up with a particular client -- not a great workflow when you're on the road. Tylr Mobile aims to fix that with a new app called WorkinBox., which debuts on Wednesday at DEMO Mobile.
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I was given a sneak preview of the product and I have to say it’s user experience is exquisite.
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Tylr Mobile today announced WorkinBox, a new mobile email inbox for salespeople connected to salesforce.com. WorkinBox is launching in beta at DEMO Mobile 2013, an event highlighting the best new mobile technologies based on design, innovation and market potential.
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The Alchemist Group is a new, venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage enterprise startups. Backers include Cisco Systems, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Khosla Ventures, SAP Ventures and US Venture Partners. The group has its roots out of the Harvard Club in San Francisco and targets technical co-founders and students from Ivy League and other high-caliber universities.
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We have different needs than guys in a garage building a social game,” said Ryan Nichols, founder of Tylr Mobile, a startup targeting sales professionals that raised $500,000 last month.
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About half of Tylr's investment comes in a convertible note from Citrix, which generally invests about $250,000 to start, and the other half comes from the Alchemist Accelerator in Palo Alto, Calif., with individual angels from SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.com contributing, he said.
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Citrix's most recent investment, Tylr Mobile, which raised $500,000, will organize and filter information for people through a specific "tile" or lens, starting with email, according to Chief Executive Ryan Nichols. Mr. Nichols' previous company, Podio, which made a social corporate workspace, was acquired by Citrix in April, and Mr. Nichols quickly started work on Tylr Mobile.
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Tylr Mobile is a startup in stealth mode that’s building a better way for business users to work on a smartphone or tablet device. Two accelerators have selected it, and it has received investments from individuals at companies such as SAP, Salesforce.com, and Oracle. In just over a month since the founders began working on the product full time, Tylr has pulled in $500,000 in seed funding. It is set to launch its first product in the first quarter of 2013.
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