Segment (company)
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| 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 |
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Segment is an Internet software company based in San Francisco, California. Segment is a single 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, as well as database services.
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.
History
Segment's 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] The company was included in the 2016 Wealthfront Career Launching Companies list.[4] In 2015, Forbes named the founding team of Segment on their 30 Under 30 list for enterprise tech.[5]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Segment Raises $27 Million For Its "One API To Rule Them All"". TechCrunch. AOL. 9 October 2015.
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com (2015-10-18). "The Hottest Cloud-based Marketing Startups of 2015". forbes.com. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ https://wealthfront.com (2015-10-06). "The 2016 Wealthfront Career-Launching Companies List". wealthfront.com. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com (2015-01-05). "Enterprise Tech 30 Under 30". forbes.com. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
