Coupa Raises $12 Million To Help Companies Spend Smarter

Coupa, the developer of a cloud spend
management (CSM) platform, has raised $12 million in Series D funding
led by Mohr Davidow Ventures with
El Dorado Ventures, BlueRun Ventures and Battery Ventures participating. This brings Coupa’s total funding to $27 million.
Coupa’s software suite allows companies of any size to maintain
better control over costs by keeping tabs on purchases, suppliers,
existing contracts etc. and automatically looking for ways to spend
budgets in a cost-saving manner. The web-based e-procurement program
also helps streamline communication between all employees and executives
over financial and business matters. It’s sort of like an Amazon.com
(for procurement) meets Mint.com (for personal finance) to help
companies manage their finances, purchases and inventory.
Other features include the ability to tweet from the platform,
automated expense report scoring, expense line notifications that thank
employees for “being frugal” when the expense is well below the category
average (and warn them when those expenses “seem a little high”),
integration to Salesforce.com, Google Maps and more.
Coupa’s customers include Michaels Stores, Pandora, Williams Sonoma,
and others. And overall active users on the platform grew eight-fold in
2010, says the company.