This is us

The FoxBase founders had been friends forever when they took the step into independence. Carsten brought with him many years of experience in IT consulting, while Ben previously worked in strategic marketing in retail. In their day-to-day work, they both stumbled across the same problem over and over again: Buzzwords like Big Data, AI and Omni Channel Commerce were supposed to simplify the purchasing process... well, they should. One important aspect was not solved at all, namely digital advice. Our founders made a decision: They will change that by revolutionizing the shopping process and offering the customer real added value - and voila, this is how the idea behind the Digital Product Selector was born.

The basic idea of individual and digital advice was there from the beginning, but at that time our two CEOs were still focusing on the B2C area. For the idea of radically shortening sales cycles, they were awarded a start-up grant from the Düsseldorf Economic Development Agency and thus landed in the starting position. During a round of table football, they got to know a Henkel employee and found out that their solution is actually urgently needed, especially in the B2B area. “Your solution for our industrial adhesives - can you do that?” Henkel asked at the time. “Of course we can!” No sooner said than done - the two of them threw themselves into work and after the success of the first one, one adhesive selector after the other was developed!

While they were busy working on the Digital Product Selectors for Henkel, the - meanwhile grown - FoxBase team came up with another idea: How about if we no longer develop and set up everything for our business customers on our own, but instead provide them with software that you can work flexibly and independently? The idea led to our current Software as a Service model. If that wasn't a milestone! And with our first pitch at the Ruhr Summit 2017, we made it straight to the grand finale. But much more important: the software got better and better and new customers kept coming.

With every solution you develop, the question arises: How big and real is the problem it is fighting? We wanted to know that early on, so we continued to collect feedback whenever and wherever possible. The statements were clear: “Yes, we need that and why the hell has nobody thought of it before?” Other prizes followed, such as the ChemStartup Award at the Startup-Con. And the Digital Product Selector conquered the chemical, electrical, telecommunications and finally the construction industries with many additional customers. That much should be said: We are far from finished!

The software has become more and more flexible, tons of new features, many new customers from hidden champion SMEs to DAX corporations with a wide variety of use cases - and above all, our legendary team has now grown to over 30 people who dig into it every day. Today we look back proudly, but at the same time we know that we are still a long way from having arrived. Certainly a lot has happened for us in the last five years. We want to continue to grow and be at the forefront in terms of innovation without ever losing sight of the needs of our customers. It's great that you have accompanied our journey to this point - or that you will accompany us! To the next milestones! GoFoxBase!