Pipedrive
Type of site
Private
Founded2010
HeadquartersTallinn, Estonia and New York City, United States
OwnerVista Equity Partners
Founder(s)Timo Rein
Urmas Purde
Ragnar Sass
Martin Henk
Martin Tajur
Key peopleDominic Allon (CEO), Agur Jõgi (CTO), Peter Harris (COO), Shaun Shirazian, (CPO), Laurence Capone (CFO), Tanya Channing (CPCO), Heidrun Luyt (CMO)
IndustrySoftware as a Service
Cloud computing
ServicesSales management
Customer relationship management
Lead generation and management
Marketing automation
Real-time progress tracking
Mobile enterprise
Employees1,000 (2022)
URLwww.pipedrive.com

Pipedrive is a cloud-based software as a service company. It is the developer of the web application and mobile app Pipedrive, a sales customer relationship management (CRM) tool. The company has more than 1,000 employees in its eight offices across Europe (Tallinn, Tartu, Lisbon, London, Prague, Dublin, Riga and Berlin) and two offices in the US (New York and Florida). Its CRM is used by over 100,000 customers around the world.[1][2] In 2020, Pipedrive became the fifth Estonian-founded unicorn.[3]

History

Pipedrive was founded on June 21, 2010 by Timo Rein, Urmas Purde, Ragnar Sass, Martin Tajur, and Martin Henk. In 2011, Pipedrive joined AngelPad.[4] It was the only European startup of the 15 teams the accelerator hosted.[5] By 2019, Pipedrive raised a total of $91.2 million in venture funding from Atomico, Bessemer Venture Partners, Paua Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners and others.[6][7][8][9][10] In 2019, Financial Times included Pipedrive in the FT 1000, a list of Europe's fastest-growing companies.[11] On November 14, 2020, Pipedrive received a majority investment from investment firm Vista Equity Partners and reached the unicorn status.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Pipedrive – a startup factory to breed unicorns". Invest in Estonia. 2021-01-08. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  2. ↑ "About Pipedrive". Pipedrive.com.
  3. ↑ Hankewitz, Sten (2020-11-12). "Estonian-founded Pipedrive sells majority to an investment firm, becomes a unicorn". Estonian World. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  4. ↑ "Estonia's PipeDrive de-cloaks at AngelPad demo day". TechCrunch.com. Retrieved Oct 18, 2011.
  5. ↑ "TechCrunch". TechCrunch.com. 18 October 2011. Retrieved Oct 18, 2011.
  6. ↑ Rooney, Ben (18 September 2013). "Estonia's Pipedrive Pulls in $2.4 Million Round". Wall Street Journal. WSJ.com. Retrieved Sep 18, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Pipedrive, a CRM platform to help SMBs sell more, closes $17M Series B led by Atomico". Techcrunch. 18 January 2017. Retrieved Apr 17, 2017.
  8. ↑ "These Startup Founders Got Funded By Getting Naked And Walking On Hot Coals With Investors". Forbes.com. Retrieved Sep 18, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Pipedrive lands $9M to help small biz keep track of sales". VentureBeat.com. 14 May 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Cloud-Based Sales Software Pipedrive Closes $9 Million Series A". TechCrunch.com. 14 May 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  11. ↑ Smith, Ian (2019-03-01). "The FT 1000: third annual list of Europe's fastest-growing companies". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  12. ↑ "Sales CRM Pipedrive takes majority investment from Vista Equity Partners to reach unicorn status". TechCrunch. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
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