Taimer to get $1 million.

Taimer, a Jyväskylä, Finland based company providing innovative CRM and business management solutions, announced the closing of $1 million in a pre-seed funding round.

The round was led by Trind VC and included funding from TAO Ventures (Australia), and FiBAN (Finnish Business Angels Network), with participation from several other investing groups and angel investors from the UK, US and Finland. In addition, undisclosed grant funding was also provided by Business Finland, the state owned govenrmental agency.

Reima Linnanvirta will join Taimer as the chairman of the board.

Taimer, founded 2013 by Eero Saarinen and led by CEO Tero Alanen, develped a CRM cloud-based software solutions providing features such as project management, invoicing, time tracking, collaboration, and built-in business intelligence reporting systems. The company has about 400 customers with 6 000+ active users in 8 countries - the customer base includes ​SEK​, ​Fimpec​, Dagmar​, ​Lahdelma & Mahlamaki​, and ​Freshwind​.