Forest Admin raises $7 million to help you build admin panels

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
French startup Forest Admin has raised a $7 million Series A round from Notion Capital and Runa Capital
The company lets you build back end admin panel so that your team can track and manipulate data from a single interface. Forest Admin
integrates with your database and third-party services you might already use, such as Stripe, Intercom, Zendesk, Google Analytics,
Mailchimp, etc
This way, you can centralize all your data. After that, Forest Admin lets you build dashboards with your most important metrics
You can explore your data and create segments
And finally, you can create workflows for a user or a segment, such as generating an invoice, issuing a refund, exporting data to a CSV file
and more. Given that Forest Admin handles sensitive customer data, you want to make sure that your data is safe
While Forest Admin is a software-as-a-service startup, it doesn&t pull your data from your servers
The company asks you to install a plugin on your server so that Forest Admin can communicate with your servers directly. You can create an
IP whitelist and put the Forest plugin behind a VPN if you want to make sure that it doesn&t create any vulnerability
Similarly, Forest Admin lets you manage user permissions to make sure that employees can only view what they need to view. So far, Forest
Admin has managed to attract 2,000 customers
The startup now has 20 employees
The company works with customers across different verticals, such as fintech, mobility and online retail. With today funding round, Forest
Admin wants to work with more APIs, such as GraphQL, integrate with more third-party SaaS tools and optimize admin panels for mobile use.