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RelPro Partners with Lendovative Technologies

Sales Intelligence vendor RelPro announced a partnership with Lendovative Technologies, “a provider and developer of niche lending technologies for financial institutions.”  The partnership enhances both companies’ ability to assist financial institutions that serve businesses across the United States.

The two firms made a go-to-market announcement with no technical integration.  Ostensibly, it is a two-way referral partnership “consistent with us developing relationships in the Banking and Financial Services ecosystem,” explained RelPro CEO Martin Wise to GZ Consulting.  Lendovative reached out to RelPro due to its “established and growing position in the Banking industry.” 

“Their platform helps banks to grow their commercial business, and the next question from their customers is ‘how can I find new SMB companies and executives to call on to grow my business?’ and that’s where RelPro fits in,” continued Wise.  “Equally, RelPro’s smaller banking clients are always interested in learning about new technology platforms that will help them grow their business.”

“The two-way referral partnership is consistent with us developing relationships in the Banking and Financial Services ecosystem – this is an efficient way for us to grow our business with smaller banks, and it leverages RelPro’s strong positioning in the banking industry (RelPro is used by half of the Top 50 banks in the US),” concluded Wise.

“By delivering deeper insights on small- to medium-sized companies and their decision-makers, we are helping financial services professionals identify more potential clients who need access to capital,” noted Lauren Meyers, RelPro’s VP of Partnerships & Customer Success.  “This partnership with Lendovative enables us to accelerate the prospecting initiatives of lenders while providing them with a solution to help businesses navigate their cash flow needs in unique and innovative ways.”

RelPro has long specialized in financial services and developed a sales intelligence platform for the space.  Its business datasets include seven million US companies, 150 million contacts, UCC filings (liens), PPP (pandemic loans) intelligence, and SBA loan data.  This summer, it added Commercial Real Estate intelligence and financial services intent data to its platform.

Lendovative offers the BB-360 lending collateral tracking platform for commercial lending.  BB-360 connects businesses to financial institutions, helping maximize access to short-term capital and collateralizing accounts receivable, inventory, and other assets.

“Loan growth is a key strategic goal for our financial institution clients, and that starts with actionable business intelligence,” noted Patrick True, President at Lendovative. “I have worked with similar service providers for more than thirty years, and no one is better at helping develop quality leads for commercial lending than RelPro.  The synergies that exist between our two companies are powerful, and will help Lendovative Technologies achieve its mission of connecting financial institution clients to more businesses across the U.S.”

RelPro integrates and presents company and contact intelligence from 17 vendors.

RelPro Adds CRE and Intent Data

RelPro has limited the topical scope of its intent data to banking use cases.

Sales Intelligence vendor RelPro, which focuses on the financial services sector, added banking services intent data and Commercial Real Estate (CRE) title and mortgage intelligence to its platform.  Both datasets are available as premium offerings.

The intent data, sourced from Zoominfo, contains 66 signals related to financial research and products.  RelPro has removed the noise from thousands of non-relevant topics by limiting the topics to standard commercial banking services.

Intent Data search results include signal score and spikes across a date range.

Users may screen against the intent topics, spike period (last week to past three months), audience strength, signal score, minimum spikes in the date range, and standard firmographics.  Audience strength and minimum spikes ensure that the research is broadly based and sustained, avoiding spurious spikes created by a single employee doing heavy research on a topic for a day or two.

Audience strength is an intent distribution score containing the volume of searches on a topic across a company’s IP addresses.  Other variables include the number of IPs at a company, the number of days investigating a topic of interest, how many times they viewed the page, and company size.

The minimum score lets banking professionals dial up or down the precision.  Intent data falls along a bell curve, with sixty being a twenty percent increase in topical activity.  Sixty, the lowest signal score for screening and presentation, is a relatively low threshold, particularly if the search is being performed across multiple weeks or months.

An intent tab lets Relationship Managers view an account’s spiking topics and each topic’s signal score, audience strength, and spikes in date range, helping them determine which financial products may be of interest to the account.  If there are multiple signal spikes over a date range, the signal score is the average of the spike scores.

The RelPro company Intent Tab details spiking topics, audience strength, frequency of spikes, and the last signal date.

A last signal date indicates the last time the topic spiked, while the spikes in date range indicate the frequency of spikes over the date range.  These fields help determine the recency and frequency of interest, particularly if low signal thresholds or a long search period have been selected.

RelPro added eight million CRE loans to its platform, helping financial services companies target companies and assess risk.  Mortgage fields include property type, lender, loan amount, assessed value, execution, and maturity dates.

CRE Title Records in a RelPro company profile.

Users can view mortgage data and screen against it in Build-a-List.  Along with CRE data, RelPro provides UCC (US liens), PPP and PPS loans (pandemic), and 7A and 504 (Small Business Administration) loans.

RelPro did not disclose the source of its CRE mortgage data.

RelPro claims that 50% of the top US banks license its service.

RelPro Loan and Lien Screening variables.

RelPro – IBISWorld Partnership

Sales Intelligence vendor RelPro announced a partnership with well-regarded industry research vendor IBISWorld to deliver an integrated solution for commercial banks.  The joint offering, delivered via the RelPro platform, assists with meeting preparation, due diligence, and industry research.  Ten commercial banks have already deployed the integrated solution, including three of the top five.

RelPro serves business development and relationship management professionals in Financial Services (banking, insurance, wealth management, private equity) and Professional Services (legal, and advisory).  RelPro users are often industry generalists who serve SMBs across many industries.  IBISWorld provides broad industry research across sectors along with economic and environmental changes.

RelPro is a traditional sales intelligence service with company and executive content sourced from seventeen partners.  Data partners include ZoomInfo, Dun & Bradstreet, BoardEx, GuideStar, Crunchbase, and HG Insights.  RelPro users build prospecting lists, perform account planning, identify additional contacts at key accounts, and, with the IBISWorld partnership, research industries based upon each company’s industry codes.

IBISWorld industry intelligence is linked by industry codes to company profiles in RelPro.

“RelPro has always been a client-driven solution, focused on the needs of business development and relationship management professionals in financial services and professional services, so when our clients asked us to integrate with a new intelligence source we listened!” said RelPro CEO Martin Wise, “The value of industry insights has been so evident as our users have pivoted and navigated through the shifting economic landscape, preparing for meetings with prospects and clients.  We are thrilled to be partnering with IBISWorld and delivering our combined capabilities to mutual clients.”

RelPro said that the partnered solution is consistent with its mission “to deliver valuable insights and time-saving efficiencies to business development and relationship management professionals” across banking and professional services.

The partnership began a year ago when a top five commercial bank requested an integrated solution.  The firms polished the integration over the past year, with the announcement synced to the April launch of My IBISWorld for Banking.

My IBISWorld for Banking includes tailored industry tools, data, and analysis to support banking professionals throughout the entire credit process.  Expanded content includes enhanced financial ratios, localized statistics “to understand concentration and major market data,” role-based views, risk snapshots that highlight industry risks and trends, and targeted meeting prep questions.

“Recently, we’ve seen a shift towards banking professionals working more closely with other functions, creating cross-department synergies in this newly-remote world.  We’ve also seen a great need for hyper-local data so banks can better serve small businesses during these unprecedented times. My IBISWorld for Banking fosters this cross-departmental work and helps banks support their customers.”

Carmen McKinney, Chief Operations Officer and Head of Customer Success at IBISWorld

“Being a part of our clients’ workflows has been a continuous goal for us at IBISWorld,” said Jason Falkowitz, SVP, IBISWorld Industry Research Division.  “From the launch of our My IBISWorld for Banking platform and our robust API offering to our new partnership with RelPro, we are committed to offering world-class industry information in client-led formats. Combining IBISWorld’s industry intelligence with RelPro’s focus on targeting companies and decision-makers, mutual clients will be best positioned to win and retain commercial relationships.”

IBISWorld content is delivered within the RelPro solution, with single sign-on supported.  The partners initially focused on their set of joint customers with contracts written on separate paper.  There is no surcharge for the cross-product authorization and functionality.

RelPro company profile screen showing links to IBISWorld Research on primary NAICS / SIC Codes.

Last year, RelPro released a similar solution with Vertical IQ.  Both Vertical IQ and IBISWorld provide industry profiles and economic data, with Vertical IQs content written in plain English for cross-industry generalists, while IBISWorld offers a more formal format.

“RelPro now integrates with the two leading independent sources of industry research,” Wise told GZ Consulting.  “It is for clients to decide which of these two solutions best meets their needs, and RelPro can deliver an integrated and time-saving user experience to either / both sources. This new partnership announcement is consistent with RelPro’s mission to deliver valuable insights and time-saving efficiencies to business development and relationship management professionals in banking and other financial and professional services sectors.” RelPro revenues (bookings) grew 40% in 2020, and the company expects that growth in 2021 will be at least that much

RelPro – Introhive Partnership

Sales Intelligence vendors RelPro and Introhive announced a partnership to deliver extended relationship insights and workflow integrations to joint customers in the Professional and Financial Services sectors.  The combined solution is immediately available to joint customers.

RelPro integrates content from seventeen data sources to deliver sales insights and contacts across 7 million companies.  Introhive adds relationship insights, data automation, and data cleansing tools.  The partnership helps “clients achieve greater sales efficiency and productivity” during the pandemic and recession.

“Our clients use RelPro to identify new prospects and ensure the contact information they have for those prospects is accurate and reliable.  Being able to map relationships that may already exist within their organization boosts the productivity of their business development professionals and increases referral traffic and collaboration.  With Introhive’s advanced relationship intelligence automation technology and data automation capabilities combined with our rich data coverage and quality, our clients can marry two best-in-class solutions to support and enrich their business development activities with little to no disruption of their day-to-day.”

RelPro CEO Martin Wise

Introhive boosts CRM adoption through automated contact data enrichment and uploads.  Introhive claims that it uncovers 350 additional contacts per user.  “The AI engine then maps these contacts to identify relationships across prospects and customer accounts.”  By reducing research and data maintenance overhead, sales and business professionals can focus their activities on prospects and clients, therefore driving customer satisfaction and the bottom line.

“With Introhive, users gain back roughly an average of 12 hours per week that would otherwise be spent on data entry or preparing for meetings.  Our Pre-Meeting Digest removes the burden of gathering information to ensure prospect or customer-facing professionals are equipped with everything they need before meetings, while Post-Meeting Reports allow for notes, tasks, and activities to be added to CRM directly from the user’s email inbox.  When we add RelPro’s database with our relationship mapping and productivity tools, customers can begin uncovering contacts and opportunities that were previously hidden.”

Introhive CEO Jody Glidden

Several months ago, RelPro released an integration with Vertical IQ to deliver industry intelligence to joint customers.  This partnership is bearing fruit as the companies have been providing referrals to each other in the financial services space.  Of course, integration partnerships also improve the stickiness of both solutions.

RelPro’s revenue is up a bit during the first half of 2020, and Wise is confident about H2.  Their business slowed less due to the pandemic than due to banks focusing on PPP processing for about eight weeks.  The banking business has since recovered as they look to provide “on the couch business development” to relationship managers and business development professionals across all segments of the banking industry.

Showing agility, the firm loaded the SBA PPP loan data into their platform and made it screenable.  Bankers and advisors can search the 660k companies who received loans in excess of $150,000.  The new dataset provides additional banking relationship data that complements UCC (liens) loan data already available through their service.

Introhive has over 240 employees with offices in the US, Canada, the UK, and India.  The firm supports over 100,000 global users.  Introhive was founded in 2012 with an initial focus on the accounting market.  It has taken an industry-by-industry approach and now supports global systems integrators, law firms, finance, commercial real estate, and, most recently, technology firms.

Introhive placed tenth on Deloitte’s Fast 50 with revenue growth of 1,700 percent over four years.

Vertical IQ – RelPro Partnership for Industry Intelligence

Vertical IQ Call Prep Questions in RelPro

RelPro and Vertical IQ partnered to deliver company and industry intelligence in each other’s products.  Both companies serve financial services firms and the Relationship Management (RM) function at banks, with many customers requesting an integrated solution.  Joint customers have access to both programs via bi-directional authorization and accreditation at the user level.

“This is a partnership both companies’ customers have been clamoring for. So we listened to what the market was telling us and worked to bring the concept to fruition.  It was a natural fit.”

RelPro CEO Martin Wise

Vertical IQ provides a set of over 500 plain-English industry overviews designed for financial services firms that are broadly applicable to RMs, business development, and sales reps, particularly professionals that support many industries.  The profiles provide a high-level understanding of industries, including industry norms, structure, trends, pain points, call prep questions, forecasts, and news.

RelPro is a traditional sales intelligence service with company and executive content sourced from sixteen partners.  Data partners include Zoominfo, Dun & Bradstreet, BoardEx, GuideStar, Crunchbase, and HG Insights.  Rel Pro users build prospecting lists, perform account planning, identify additional contacts at key accounts, and, with the Vertical IQ partnership, research industries based upon each company’s industry codes.  A new Industry tab displays Vertical IQ’s Industry Overview, Trends & Industry News, Competition, and Call Preparation content.  

Instead of providing the full Vertical IQ report, RelPro chose to publish the most valuable sections from Vertical IQ and combine them with industry-specific intelligence from its database, including Competitors and Top Companies.  Should a user wish to dive deeper into an industry, the RM simply clicks a button and is taken to the full industry profile in Vertical IQ.

The Vertical IQ integration is a bit simpler.  Users can click on a “find companies in RelPro” button located in the industry dashboard.  The user is taken seamlessly to RelPro to perform a peer search.  The industry codes are pre-populated, and the user can include additional sizing and geographic variables for defining a territory.  Users may also plot company lists on a map, a useful tool for field sales rep planning.

Users do not need to log into both offerings.  A handshake between the firms ensures that jointly registered users receive access to both platforms.

There is a clear logic to this partnership.  RelPro and Vertical IQ allow Relationship Managers to rapidly context switch, perform client due diligence, ask intelligent questions, and conduct business development.  The combined services deliver customer and industry insights within the RM’s workflow, helping them better serve customers and their banking objectives.

The partners initially focused on their set of joint customers with contracts written on separate paper.  There is no surcharge for the cross-product authorization and functionality.

RelPro offers four industry subjects to the combined RelPro / Vertical IQ industry tab.

Vertical IQ has also stepped up during the pandemic to assist business decision making. Their editors are publishing a set of free coronavirus related profiles at the industry-level, allowing RMs, sales reps, and risk decision makers (supply, credit) to properly evaluate industry-specific risks.

“Rather than learning about industries in bits and pieces or from unreliable sources, we knew it was important for people to get information from an experienced industry intelligence partner written for those that advise small  and medium-sized businesses. That was the impetus for delivering this intelligence and making it free of charge.”

Bill Walker, Vertical IQ EVP of Research

A freemium approach during the current health and economic crisis makes a great deal of sense. It provides free resources to small businesses and distressed sectors that can assist with decision making, while providing a free taste of their content to professional and financial services firms. The content set should result in both future sales and brand equity.

RelPro Adds Crunchbase Intelligence

The New RelPro Finance tab includes a stock chart, funding data, IPO intelligence, finance news, and investors.
The New RelPro Finance tab includes a stock chart, funding data, IPO intelligence, finance news, and investors.

Relationship Intelligence vendor RelPro added Crunchbase funding, firmographics, and news content to its service, providing customers with greater insights on fast growing small and mid-size companies.  RelPro focuses on B2B business development across marketing, sales, relationship management, and research.

“RelPro users are looking for smarter, more efficient ways to build relationships with fast-growing companies,” said RelPro CEO Martin Wise. “By adding Crunchbase data to the RelPro platform our customers will save time, they will gain additional analytics to identify new company prospects, and they will benefit from new research insights to help them develop informed relationships and turn those prospects into clients.”

The new content set provides additional company intelligence, analytics, and filters.  RelPro profiles seven million companies and 150 million business decision makers.  Other content partners include BoardEx, Dun & Bradstreet, ZoomInfo, and HG Data.

The Crunchbase dataset supports new filters include Funding Round and Funding Total Amount.  RelPro also added a new finance tab to company profiles.

“As Crunchbase builds its overall partner network, the combination of our business intelligence with RelPro’s platform will provide value to their clients and increase the reach of Crunchbase’s premium data, getting that valuable information in front of the people who need it most.”


Nealesh Patel, Head of Business Development and Sales for Crunchbase.

RelPro hinted at additional analytics and data partner announcements in 2019.  One feature in development is a “look-a-like” companies list to assist with business development.

RelPro more than doubled its subscription revenues in 2018.

RelPro: Enhanced Firmographics

A new RelPro company concordance provides firmographic variables for screening and account planning.
A new RelPro company concordance provides firmographic variables for screening and account planning.

Sales Intelligence vendor RelPro added a firmographics layer to its contact intelligence screening. Users can now filter against SIC/NAICS codes, Industry Keywords, Public/Private Status, and Web Ranking. According to CEO Martin Wise, the new feature has been “very well received by clients.”

RelPro continues to build out its Chrome extension for on-demand company and people intelligence based upon the current website. Decision maker intelligence includes emails, direct dials, and corporate phones. Chrome extension features include contact send to CRM, follow, open the full profile within RelPro, and follow for weekly email alerts.

“RelPro’s latest firmographic and workflow enhancements represent another step forward in our mission to help clients grow their business and make the most of their precious time by delivering Integrated Relationship Intelligence to accelerate all stages of the B2B business development process (Marketing, Sales, Account Management and Research).  RelPro grew more than 3x last year and we aim to continue the momentum in 2018 with our growing enterprise client base and reputation for being ‘easy to do business with’.”

  • CEO Martin Wise

Wise noted that 2018 development plans are “on track.” This year, the firm is looking to add company and linkage analytics, corporate family trees, and ABM look-a-likes.

RelPro People Concordance, Connectors, and Relationship Intelligence

New features include DotAlign integration, favorite role filtering, and saved articles.
New features include DotAlign integration, favorite role filtering, and saved articles.

Sales intelligence vendor RelPro continues to gain market traction in its second year with 2017 revenues projected at $1.5 million. The firm has grown to fifteen headcount. Growth has been assisted by a mid-90% renewal rate.

According to CEO Martin Wise, the firm launched RelPro in early 2016 but needed some time to round out rough edges and determine positioning and vertical fit. They are on track, however, to grow revenue 3-4X in 2017 and now support 75 corporate clients distributed across financial services (30%), Technology (30%), B2B and Professional Services (30%), and nonprofit (10%). RelPro focuses on “helping people across the business development value chain” including sales, marketing, and account management. They are one of the few to include the analyst function amongst their user personas.

“Time is the scarcest resource for anyone involved in Business Development, whether you’re in Marketing, Sales, Account Management or Research.  RelPro has always been about helping you to quickly find business decision-makers (at companies of any shape or size around the world), learn more about them and keep in touch with them. With our latest enhancements, we have taken another step forward in our mission to save clients’ time through Integrated Relationship Intelligence solutions that leverage the highest quality data available.”

  • RelPro CEO Martin Wise

Over the past year, the firm focused on their people concordance (150 million global business professionals), “integrated relationship intelligence,” alerts, and workflow. 2018 will shift to improved firmographics and company concordance (7M). New features include a people concordance engine, relationship mapping with BoardEx supporting top tier relationships, mobile web support, and a series of integrations.

The people concordance ties together contact profiles from multiple vendors to provide a unified informational view across web news, BoardEx, Dun & Bradstreet, Zoominfo, and DotAlign. Users can also link out to LinkedIn profiles and BoardEx organizational charts. DotAlign performs Outlook mining to identify internal connections to companies along with the number of connections to company contacts. BoardEx and DotAlign functionality require joint subscriptions.

The RelPro Chrome extension provides on demand company intelligence from websites and people intelligence from LinkedIn.
The RelPro Chrome extension provides on demand company intelligence from websites and people intelligence from LinkedIn.

The new Chrome extension displays company information based upon a URL and executive profiles tied to LinkedIn pages. Thus, users can research LinkedIn profiles and lookup emails and direct dial phones. They can also follow contacts in RelPro from the Chrome connector and link from a LinkedIn bio to their RelPro profile. Other features include the quick identification of contacts from a pre-saved list of companies, Favorite Role filters for quickly customizing searches and company executive lists, and saved articles.

The mobile site supports responsive design, providing a form-factor specific user interface. Features include company and people searching, company and people profiles, and executive lists at companies.

Favorite Roles are keyword-based and available for list building and executive list filtering in company profiles.
Favorite Roles are keyword-based and available for list building and executive list filtering in company profiles.

Amongst the new screening filters are searching against company lists and favorite roles. The favorite roles feature is a set of stored expressions that help define specific functional categories. For example, a user can focus on demand generation marketers or individuals in specific research roles and then deploy these roles for standard prospecting or executive filtering from within a company profile. Unfortunately, RelPro does not yet offer standard taxonomic job functions and levels.

RelPro’s most sophisticated integration is with NetSuite where users can synch companies and contacts, enrich records, and review duplicates. For Salesforce, users can export leads individually or as lists. Contact and Account exports are on their roadmap along with duplicate checking logic. RelPro is also working on a Microsoft Dynamics connector.

Contact Insights exported to PDF.
Contact Insights exported to PDF.

Other new features include web news for company and people, saved articles, and exporting profiles as vCards or PDFs.

The 2018 roadmap focuses on additional solutions for enterprise clients including company concordance improvements and company analytics. RelPro is also looking to add corporate family trees, linkage analytics, and ABM look-a-likes.

RelPro is priced at $1,200 per user for 10 users (includes 1,000 profile views and weekly alerts on up to 30 people / companies for each user). The price per user is volume based. It is higher for smaller teams and discounts apply to larger enterprise deployments. If companies are looking for additional email alerts, they are available in packages of 50 profiles for $125 per month. A Tech Search add-on, based on HG Data tech stack intelligence, is extra. The firm also offers Data Services.

RelPro: Adding Tech Search to Relationship Intelligence

RelPro's new Technology Search combines firmographic searching with Product and Vendor fields from HG Data.
RelPro’s new technology search combines firmographic searching with product and vendor fields from HG Data.

RelPro has licensed the HG Data company technology dataset for inclusion in their relationship intelligence database.  The new content will assist sales and marketing teams in prospecting for companies and executives based upon the corporate technology stack.  The dataset covers 100 million contacts across ten million companies.

“RelPro’s mission has always been to leverage data and analytics to help companies generate higher revenue through smarter prospecting and lead generation” said Martin Wise, RelPro CEO, “We are frequently asked by our customers if we can help them shorten their sales cycle. One key contributor to an accelerated sales process is accurate firmographic data which enables the right prospects to be targeted. By partnering with HG Data, we enable our technology customers to access valuable intelligence on installed technologies which connects with RelPro’s sales and marketing intelligence analytics for efficient lead generation and increased conversion rates.”

RelPro provides access to Zoominfo executives, Dun & Bradstreet companies, BoardEx linkage, and the HG technology stack.  Contact profiles include work histories, education, awards, industry associations, memberships, and “relationship intelligence” from news, social media, and the open web.

RelPro supports exporting to CSV and Salesforce, but does not discuss an AppExchange service.

RelPro is at the upper end of the sales intelligence product pricing range.  RelPro begins at $1,200 per user but is limited to 800 profile views and 10 weekly alerts.  The Team edition is priced at $6,000 for five users and provides 30 alerts per user but only 4,500 profile views.   If companies are looking for additional email alerts, they are available in packages of 50 profiles for $125 per month.  Tech searching is extra.

RelPro also offers data enrichment services.