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The seed round was led by Felicis Ventures’ Sundeep Peechu and IA Ventures’ Jesse Beyroutey Buffalo, NY, Nov 16th, 2020 — As COVID-19 continues to accelerate the need for digital operations, the e-commerce and sales management company KYKLO is announcing a $8.5 million seed round to continue to bring electrical...

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc., a leader in the Americas industrial automation market has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with distributor digitalization experts KYKLO to provide close support for their Americas distributor channel. Under the agreement, Vernon Hills, Illinois based Mitsubishi Electric Automation will promote KYKLO digital services to its...

KYKLO and Festo, a global leader in the pneumatic and electrical automation industry, have jointly developed a plan to drive improved customer service through Festo’s North American distributor channel. The agreement calls for KYKLO to provide enhanced offerings to Festo’s extensive network of knowledge-based technical distributors. This effort will give...

Pausing from a series of excitingly busy days (weeks, months and, even years), we realized KYKLO is another year older. We have reached a milestone; five years of KYKLO. We could insert any number of old cliches: Time passes quickly when you’re having a good time… It seems like only...

It’s the end of a tough day. Lately it seems like every day sets a new worlds record for issues. Your head barely touches the pillow before you drift off into deep slumber. In what seems like 10 minutes, your tumultuous dreams include an eerie sound from outer space. The...

Are you doing mid-year reviews? As we roll into mid-summer, many distributors are in the process of doing mid-year reviews with their teams. Under even the best of circumstances, distribution experts recommend periodic reviews of team performance. In these tumultuous times, the practice is even more important. Our friend Frank...

Open for business… What a feeling. After nearly four months, and what seemed like an eternity, New York is finally opening some doors. While the march to normalcy isn’t moving forward as most of us would like, we are starting to feel the progress. With this in mind, now might...

Like you, we’ve been on the phone a lot lately. The conversation usually goes something like this: Me: Thanks for taking my call. How have you been? Corona-crud free; I hope. Client: Doing well. No virus, but sure getting tired of the same old quarantine routine. Me: No kidding! Aside...

In a murky ocean of talking head doom and gloom, ITR's, Brian Beaulieu shown like a light. AHTD meetings are always a great time for valuable networking sandwiched between world class presentations. Under normal circumstances, we would be sipping a coffee, tea, beer or wine at one of those networking...

First and foremost, we here at KYKLO hope you and yours are staying safe during this uncertain time. Over the last weeks, your inbox has been flooded with strategies on how to work from home. But, KYKLO would rather pose a different question: What should you be doing? Our answer...

The Coronavirus has impacted our daily lives at home and in the workplace. Government and companies are placing severe limitations on our ability to do our jobs. Restrictions tied to meetings have canceled some of our favorite industry events, and reports have come in that even customers are hesitant to...

Champion has a lot of connotations. George Foreman, before he started hawking grills on TV, was the Boxing Heavy Weight Champion of the World. The Kansas City Chiefs are the reigning Champions of the National Football League. On a lesser note, the late great, “Pretty Boy” Bobby AKA Bobby “The...

Allow us to be about the hundredth person to welcome you to the New Year, 2020. Instead of an idle greeting, let’s take just three minutes for serious rumination. January is a time for thoughtful contemplation, planning and perhaps a resolution or two. Most are led to the practice on...

Most of you don’t realize this, but KYKLO and Santa Claus have a special relationship. Yep, the Red Suited Jolly One is our pal. We aren’t at liberty to go into all the details, but Santa probably leads up one of the most unique distribution businesses on the planet. Everyone...

Supplier salespeople can steer business your way. It’s a fact, our suppliers come in contact with customers, potential customers, and prospects every day. In a millisecond these people decide if they are going to push business your way or towards someone down the street. When they bring you an opportunity,...

Imagine the KYKLO story as an award winning movie. Some might describe the plot as “customer finds a website, customer loves information, customer buys products.” While in the simplest terms all this is true, there’s a whole lot more going on. The webshop gets lots of attention, but KYKLO is...

We didn’t get the calendar mixed up. And, no it’s not the launch of a New Year on the Mayan Calendar or even the Thai Calendar. But this month marks a New Year milestone for those of us at KYKLO. It was just twelve months ago that KYKO signed our...

Davis Controls selected KYKLO as our partner in moving toward distributor digitalization. I thought it appropriate to share my thoughts, impressions and ultimately my appreciation of their work. I originally met the KYKLO Founders during a brief encounter at the Association for High Technology Distribution (AHTD) Spring Meeting in 2018...

KYKLO NAMED A 2019“COOL VENDOR” IN DIGITAL COMMERCEBY GARTNERVendors Selected for the Cool Vendor Report Are Interesting, New and InnovativeBangkok, Thailand and New York City, New York June 5, 2019 KYKLO The distributor-focused ecommerce and content provider, today announced that it has been named a “Cool...

January’s gone and 2019 seems to be racing forward… New Year’s resolutions seem to come and go but there is still plenty of time to evaluate that list of goals. Are your goals important to your business’ long term profitability and growth? Are they strategic or just a litany of miscellaneous stuff...

Make no mistake, customers are thinking and behaving differently today than just a couple years ago. When I was a rookie sales guy, the primary source of product information for my customers was their favorite salesperson. Introducing customers to new products, providing catalogs for additional product data searches and demonstrations...

Article first published on Electrical Trends and accessible athttp://www.electricaltrends.com/2018/05/revenue-generation-content-key-takeaways-from-b2b-online-conference.htmlE-Commerce continues to be a heavily discussed issue within the electrical industry with distributors, in aggregate, investing millions of dollars and manufacturers redesigning sites, investing to build, manage and enhance product content and considering the alternative channels that eCommerce is creating...

KYKLO ENTERS THE NORTH AMERICAN MARKET BY ATTENDING ASSOCIATION FOR HIGH TECH DISTRIBUTION (AHTD) MEETING AT CORONADO ISLAND CALIFORNIA. CORONADO, California— KYKLO, a company dedicated to bringing distributors of automation, electrical and mechanical products to the world of full digitalization, officially launched their North American presence by participating in...

Business for Business (B4B) is a new definition of what we would call a successful company in the B2B environment.Why successful? In B2B we define a business as one that operates in one direction, so it supplies a product, solution or service to another business, but with only a...