Segment (company)

Segment
Private
Industry Computer Software
Founders Peter Reinhardt, Calvin French-Owen, Ilya Volodarsky, Ian Storm Taylor
Headquarters San Francisco, California, US
Area served
 Worldwide
Number of employees
 51 to 200
Website www.segment.com

Segment is an Internet software company based in San Francisco, California. The company is a platform for collecting customer data and sending it to analytics, marketing, and data warehousing services. Segment provides an API that collects and routes customer data to over 160 different tools and database services.

History

Segment was founded in 2011 by MIT students Peter Reinhardt, Calvin French-Owen, Ilya Volodarsky, and RISD student Ian Storm Taylor, as a startup company from the American seed accelerator Y Combinator. The founders originally started out working on an edtech product that would tell professors when students were confused during class.

The company has raised a total of $44.6 million.[1] The latest Series B funding was led by Thrive Capital, with existing investors Accel Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Jon Winkelried, former president of Goldman Sachs, participating.[2]

Awards and recognitions

In 2015, Forbes named Segment one of the five hottest cloud-based marketing startups,[3] and they placed the founding team on their 30 Under 30 list for enterprise tech.[4] The company was included in the 2016 Wealthfront Career Launching Companies list.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Gina Hall (9 October 2015). "Y Combinator graduate Segment raises $27 million to double employment, improve its product - Silicon Valley Business Journal". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
  2. ↑ "Segment Raises $27 Million For Its "One API To Rule Them All"". TechCrunch. AOL. 9 October 2015.
  3. ↑ http://www.forbes.com (2015-10-18). "The Hottest Cloud-based Marketing Startups of 2015". forbes.com. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  4. ↑ http://www.forbes.com (2015-01-05). "Enterprise Tech 30 Under 30". forbes.com. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  5. ↑ https://wealthfront.com (2015-10-06). "The 2016 Wealthfront Career-Launching Companies List". wealthfront.com. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
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