Unicorns 87/229 – Sprinklr

Unicorns 87/229 – Sprinklr


Sprinklr

Founder / s: Ragy Thomas
Key people: Ragy Thomas (Founder & Chief Executive Officer), Chris Lynch (CFO), Murali Swaminathan (EVP, Client Success and Engineering), Eric Marterella (Regional Sales Director – USA, East) and Pavitar Singh (VP of Product Development)
Number of employees: 501 – 1k

Sprinklr is the most complete enterprise social media management technology in the world, purpose-built for large companies to drive business outcomes and manage customer experiences across all touch points. Called “the most powerful technology in the market” by Forrester, Sprinklr’s integrated integrated social Experience management software powers more than four billion social connections across 77 countries. Headquartered in New York City with almost 700 places global, Sprinklr is revolutionizing customer engagement for almost 800 of Fortune’s top enterprise brands, including IHG, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Virgin America, and partners like Accenture, Havas, and Razorfish.

Corporate history

Sprinklr was founded in 2009. Originally self-funded by CEO and founder Ragy Thomas, the company has raised more than $ 239 million in financing from Battery Ventures, Intel Capital, and Iconiq Capital and is valued at over $ 1.8 billion.

Sprinkl ro jo organism to more than 200 employees and hundreds of customers before change to make acquisitions in 2014.

  • In March 2014, Sprinklr acquired Dachis Group As the part of the acquisition, Jeffrey Dachis, co-founder of the world’s largest digital agency Razorfish, joined Sprinklr as Chief Evangelist.
  • In August 2014, Sprinklr acquired TBG Digital To augment its paid social advertising capability. TBG Digital was a pioneer in the social advertising space and at the time of acquisition oversaw more than $ 100 million in annual paid advertising for its clients.
  • In September 2014, Sprinklr acquired Branderati Adding a parties advocacy suite to its capabilities.

As of mid 2016, Sprinklr has more than 1100 employees and 1000 customers.

As of mid 2016, Sprinklr has offices in 10 countries, located across North & South America, Europe and Asia.