Appirio

History

• In 2006, Appirio was founded by Chris Barbin, Narinder Singh, Glenn Weinstein, and Mike O’Brien.
• In 2007, Appirio established its headquarters in Salesforce.com’s Startup Incubator in San Mateo, California.
• In 2012, Appirio moved its headquarters to San Francisco, California.
• In August 2015, Appirio announced that the Indianapolis Office would be named company headquarters.
• In early 2008, Appirio secured a Series A investment of $1.1 million from Salesforce.com and angel investors. Then, the firm secured $5.6 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital in July 2008.
• A Series C round came in February 2009 with a $10 million funding from Sequoia Capital

• A Series D funding round for $60 million followed in March 2012, led by private equity firm General Atlantic.
• In October 2009, Appirio's Chief Architect, Jason Ouellette released a book titled Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud, released under Addison-Wesley Professional.
• In April 2010, Appirio was named "OnDemand Company of the Year" by AlwaysOn, selected as a "Best Place to Work in the Bay Area" by the San Francisco Business Times, and listed in Gartner's "Who's Who in Cloud Computing/SaaS Integration".
• In July, 2010, Appirio was featured in The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations, a technology novel written by Vinnie Mirchandani.
• In March 2011, Appirio acquired Infowelders, a Salesforce consultancy based in Louisville, KY.
• In December 2011, Appirio acquired Saaspoint, a provider of cloud consulting services in Europe.
• In November 2012, it went on to acquire Knowledge Infusion, a human resources and talent management advisory and consulting services firm.
• In September 2013, Appirio acquired Topcoder, a community of 500,000 developers, engineers and designers that find and collaborate on software development assignments ranging from applications and websites, to back-end corporate systems. CloudSpokes, Appirio's competing platform with 75,000 users, was merged into Topcoder in January 2014.

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