Pipedrive

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Pipedrive
Pipedrive logo.svg
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), Malgosia Plucinska (CCO)
IndustrySoftware as a Service
Cloud computing
ServicesSales management
Customer relationship management
Lead generation and management
Marketing automation
Real-time progress tracking
Mobile enterprise solutions
Employees900 (2021)
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 900 employees in its ten offices across Europe and in the US, and its CRM is used by over 95,000 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 had 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] On14 November 2020, Pipedrive received a majority investment from investment firm Vista Equity Partners and reached the unicorn status.[12]

Awards[]

The company was recognised as the “Best Overall CRM Solution in 2020” by MarTech Breakthrough[13] and “Easiest to Use” CRM by Motley Fool.[14] Since 2018, Pipedrive has been included in the highly competitive Forbes Cloud 100 list, the definitive ranking of the top hundred private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes.[15] In 2021, Pipedrive was named among the best real estate CRM software in the market.[16] In August 2021 the top 5 Recommended CRM Softwares were Pipedrive (Editor's choice 2021), Freshworks CRM, InfoFlo, Monday.com, and HubSpot.[17]

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. Retrieved Oct 18, 2011.
  6. ^ "Estonia's Pipedrive Pulls in $2.4 Million Round". WSJ.com. Retrieved Sep 18, 2013.
  7. ^ "Pipedrive, a CRM platform to help SMBs sell more, closes $17M Series B led by Atomico". Techcrunch. 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. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  10. ^ "Cloud-Based Sales Software Pipedrive Closes $9 Million Series A". TechCrunch.com. 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. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  13. ^ "2020 Winners | MarTech Breakthrough Awards". Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  14. ^ Rayner, Tom (2019-09-06). "Pipedrive CRM Review 2021: Features, Pricing & More". The Blueprint. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  15. ^ "The Cloud 100 2020". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  16. ^ OÜ, Pipedrive Inc / Pipedrive. "Pipedrive Named Best Real Estate CRM Software of 2021". Pipedrive. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  17. ^ "Recommended CRM Software". Pipedrive. Retrieved 2021-08-03.

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