dreams · Jan 3, 2017
Dream Chasers: Collaborating Around the Globe
Last updated: July 22, 2026
Green Shoots Capital, a financial firm with 30 salespeople and 40 fund managers serving thousands of clients across Switzerland, New Zealand, the UK, Hong Kong, and Dubai, uses Quire to keep everyone and everything in one central place. Filters let each person focus on their own group of clients, so a globally scattered team collaborates without losing track.
This is what a genuinely distributed team looks like. Gallup found that 60% of remote-capable employees would leave a job that stripped away their flexibility, so a firm spread across five countries lives or dies by how well it coordinates online.
With 30 sales people, 40 fund managers and thousands of clients across the globe, Quire’s simplicity and flexibility allow Green Shoots Capital to keep everyone and everything in one central place.
Collaborating with different people from different countries can be tedious - but not for us at Green Shoots Capital.
We are a Switzerland-based financial company that sells financial products. Three months ago, we found ourselves spending hours each day to figure out who is doing what and what has been updated.
Given that we have about 30 team members (all under 50 by the way) from countries including Switzerland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Dubai working with 40 fund managers and thousands of clients, the company needed a tool to bring all our team, communication and data into one central place.
“We are a multi-dimensional team. Everything has to fit in a simple system that lets us collaborate easily despite distance. Quire is perfect.”
-- Sebastian Schaefer
Founder of Green Shoots Capital
The biggest challenge my team and I had before using Quire was being able to easily refer to our clients’ data and keep track of everything that is going on. “We did not want to use a CRM system that comes with too much things and too much complexity,” said Sebastian, founder of Green Shoots Capital. “It simply will not help our team to do what we are supposed to do.”
Now in Quire, we have every colleague as a project and in each project, each client that the colleague is responsible for as a task that includes the client’s profile in its description. If we ever need to focus on a specific group of clients, we just add tags (eg. 10 different tags for 10 different products) and filter by them.
For example, my colleague is working with a client - a top Swiss bank - and she had a meeting to show them a fund product. When I wanted to know how it went and give some suggestions, I simply posted a comment which was nicely time stamped, and so right after being notified of it, she could check it out.
For us, Quire keeps communication between different people from different countries easy, and everything else organized and ready within our reach, in ways it never was before!
“Quire has done a great job for us. It really works for us and is updating everything super quickly and whenever I want to check something, it is there.”
-- Sebastian Schaefer
Founder of Green Shoots Capital
The detail that makes it work is filtering. With thousands of clients and dozens of people, nobody needs to see everything. Each salesperson and fund manager narrows the shared workspace down to their own book of clients, so the view stays relevant without fragmenting the data. The firm keeps one source of truth, and every person gets a focused slice of it, which is exactly the balance a global operation needs to strike.
How does Green Shoots Capital use Quire?
A globally distributed financial firm, in one view.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does Green Shoots Capital use Quire?
Each colleague is set up as a project, with every client they handle listed as a task that includes the client's profile in its description.
What problem did Green Shoots Capital face before Quire?
With 30 salespeople, 40 fund managers, and thousands of clients across five countries, the team spent hours a day just tracking who was doing what.
How does the team focus on a specific group of clients in Quire?
They add tags for each product line and filter by them to pull up just the clients they need.
How does Quire help the team collaborate across countries?
Teammates post time-stamped comments with suggestions after client meetings, and the colleague is notified right away.
