Unicorns 71/229 – Domo
Domo
Founder / s: Josh James
Key people: Josh James (Founder & CEO), Chris Harrington (President & Board of Directors), Daren Thayne (CTO), Heather Zynczak (CMO), Bruce Felt (CFO) and Matt Belkin (Chief Strategic Solutions Officer)
Number of employees: 501 – 1k
To do your job well, you need the right information at the right time. Unfortunately, that information lives in an ever-increasing mess of disconnected spreadsheets, systems, databases and applications. Domo solves that problem by bringing their business and its data together in One intuitive platform. Domo lets you see all the information you care about about one place to make better decisions.
With over 1,000 customers and ~ $ 450M in funding, Domo is helping organizations-from SMB to enterprise-amount improvement the way their business is managed
Domo’s founding team consists of some of the most sought after talents in the industry with experience that includ es Amazon, American Express, Ancestry.com, eBay, Endeca, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, MLB.com, Omniture, salesforce.com and SAP The
History
Domo, Inc. was founded in 2010 by Josh James, who also co-founded the web analytics software company Omniture in 1996, which he took public in 2006. In 2009, three years after taking the company public, James sold Omniture to Adobe Systems Inc. for $ 1.8 billion. In October 2010, by Peter, James started Shacho, Inc. Two months later, as one of its first moves, Shacho purchased Lindon-based Corda Technologies to jump start the data visualization component of the product. At The time, Corda had grown to about $ 10 million in annual revenue. James changed Shacho’s name to Domo, which means thanks in Japanese.
