Contactually, a DC-based relationship management platform for service-oriented professionals, today announced an $8 million Series A led by Rally Ventures and Grotech Ventures with participation from Correlation Ventures and prior investors including Point Nine Capital, Middleland Capital, Bull City Venture Partners, as well as real estate influencer Tom Ferry. Founded in 2011, Contactually has raised $12 million in funding to date and prior investors include 500 Startups, Boston Seed, Bull City Venture Partners, and the SaaS Syndicate on AngelList.

Contactually enables thousands of customers generate more business, ranging from individual professionals up through 2,000 seat enterprises and beyond. Their core values include a focus on relationships first, embodied by this statement from CEO and co-founder Zvi Band: “The most successful businesses in the world will be built upon personal, authentic relationships with their clients and partners.”

“Contactually helps teams generate more business from their existing networks by aggregating data from email, calendars, spreadsheets, and more, through surfacing key fading relationships,” said Band in a statement released on their website. “Initially, we saw a gap where business contact managers weren’t servicing this need. The most important thing for a professional is to quickly identify who they need to talk to, when they need to talk to them, and what they need to say. That’s been our thesis from day one.”

“We’re impressed by the superior execution of the innovative ideas by Zvi and team, and the traction so far with customers is remarkable,” said Don Rainey, general partner at Grotech Ventures. “We’re excited to partner with another unfolding DC success story.”

Contactually will be using the funding to continue ramping up the sales, marketing, and engineering teams in order to continue their growth. The company plans to continue building out the relationship management and engagement platform, and expand their offering to mobile platforms.

“Most CRM platforms, such as Salesforce and SugarCRM, focus primarily on tracking a sales funnel, selling to transactional sales teams,” said Tom Ferry, who joined the round. “Contactually has focused elsewhere, primarily on the professional services market, where follow-ups are key and the most prominent way of tracking relationships are in spreadsheets.”

Bull City Venture Partners is led by Jason Caplain and David Jones and is based in the Triangle.