Bregal Sagemount
08 Jan 2025
Today, Scorpion, a leading provider of technology and services helping local businesses thrive, announced a $100 million investment from Bregal Sagemount to expand its technology and customer offerings. This funding reflects the exceptional growth in Scorpion’s business and investor belief in its vision to empower local businesses and the communities they serve.
Through Scorpion’s blend of AI technology and teams of experts, local businesses can improve business performance and marketing capabilities by better understanding their unique market dynamics, competitors, and customers. Scorpion brings everything together making it easy to gain insights at-a-glance and in-depth, and to take action through an all-in-one dashboard. Bringing significant local data and vertical market expertise to customers, Scorpion delivers the tools and services needed to set, measure, and exceed goals.
This funding comes at a time of tremendous growth for Scorpion, as the company makes plans to open a new headquarters in the Salt Lake City area. Scorpion will be bringing a team of executives, award-winning designers, developers, and service professionals to the city to allow for continued expansion of talent and innovation. The company continues to add to its nearly 1,000 employees, bringing increased expertise across a variety of verticals including legal, home service providers, healthcare, and franchises.
Scorpion also expanded its impressive management team, appointing Daniel Street as CEO, Mikel Chertudi as Chief Revenue Officer, Raj Ramanan as Chief Operating Officer, and Azim Nagree as EVP Operations and M&A. Street, a former SVP of Digital for Nexstar, CEO of Loku, Executive at KKR and Management Consultant at Bain and Company, brings decades of extensive experience as a highly regarded technology executive with strategic insights in Local Media, Digital Marketing, and SaaS. Chertudi, former Head of Digital Marketing, Growth & Inside Sales at Adobe, is a digital SaaS expert with more than fifteen years of experience in marketing, product, and sales in B2B and B2C revenue models. Ramanan brings leadership and operational experience from his time spent at McKinsey, Disney, and KKR, and will help Scorpion grow revenue, onboard new customers, and continue to provide world-class service. Nagree, previously Principal of Nagree Consulting and VP of account management at Cision, brings 15 years of experience in growing, scaling and exiting innovative startups. Scorpion Founder Rustin Kretz remains the product visionary and will transition to its Chief Product Officer and Chairman of the Board.
Additionally, Scorpion recently acquired CanIRank, an SEO software company that pioneered AI for customers to quickly secure locally relevant, actionable, SEO insights and recommendations. This acquisition showcases Scorpion’s commitment to accelerating the development of its technology and providing customers with innovative tools.
Daniel Street
CEO - Scorpion
Blair Greenberg
Partner - Bregal Sagemount
Both Greenberg and Smith will be joining Scorpion’s Board of Directors.
Scorpion is the leading provider of technology and services helping local businesses thrive. It helps local service providers understand their unique market dynamics, maximize their marketing efforts, and delight their customers. Scorpion offers SEO, Reviews, Advertising, Email Marketing, Chat and Messaging, Social Media, Websites, Lead Management, Appointment Scheduling, and more. The company brings everything together in a way that is easy to understand and manage, blending AI and teams of real people with vertical expertise to support customers in setting, measuring, and reaching their goals.
Scorpion is Headquartered in the Salt Lake City area, with offices in California, Texas, and New York. For more information, please visit https://www.scorpion.co/about-us/.
ScorpionBregal Sagemount is a growth-focused private capital firm with $4.0 billion of committed capital. The firm provides flexible capital and strategic assistance to market-leading companies in high-growth sectors across a wide variety of transaction situations. Bregal Sagemount invests $40 million to $200 million per transaction into targeted sectors including software, digital infrastructure, healthcare IT / services, business and consumer services, and financial technology / specialty finance. For more information, please visit www.sagemount.com.
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