PivotLink Secures $13 Million in Funding
Builds Momentum in Retail Analytics
(firmenpresse) - SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/17/12 -- , the leading provider of retail performance management solutions delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), today announced it recently closed an additional $13 million in financing. The funding accelerates PivotLink's strategy to expand its market-leading SaaS analytics offering with a suite of on-demand retail performance management applications.
PivotLink's funding was led by existing investors Trident Capital, Emergence Capital Partners and Starvest Partners, firms that were early investors in Qualys, SuccessFactors and NetSuite. PivotLink added as a new investor from the acquisition of privately-held Acteea, Inc., announced separately this week. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Acteea provides SaaS e-commerce analytics solutions for customer scoring.
The financing, including the Acteea component, was completed in December 2011 and brings PivotLink's total equity raised to $32 million after three previous rounds.
"This funding reflects the tremendous success PivotLink is achieving and the exciting opportunity to help retailers strengthen relationships with increasingly connected consumers by improving business insights," said Bruce Armstrong, president & CEO, PivotLink. "We're very well positioned to accelerate our next stage of growth and extend our market leadership with SaaS retail performance management solutions that are easy to use, highly scalable and deliver business value in a fraction of the time and cost of legacy approaches."
"We are very happy to be PivotLink's newest investor," said Blake Modersitski, managing director of Pelion Venture Partners. "With the company's clear focus on the rapidly growing retail industry segment of SaaS business analytics -- coupled with recent brand-name customer wins and the acquisition of Acteea's e-commerce analytic solution -- we think PivotLink has everything in place to be extremely successful."
Today's announcement builds on PivotLink's momentum:
Customers praised the introduction of , the latest release of PivotLink's market-leading SaaS Business Intelligence (BI) platform. PivotLink 5 features native support for iPad, Android and BlackBerry PlayBook, on-the-fly visualization and streamlined administration.
At the National Retail Federation Convention & Expo this week, PivotLink launched , an application that allows online and omni-channel retailers to improve Customer Lifetime Value, and the , a solution that gives retail marketers a single interface to explore data from any operational, social, mobile or location-based source and improve retail performance.
New customer wins and existing customers that expanded their relationship with PivotLink in 2011 include: Fifth & Pacific Companies (formerly Liz Claiborne), Kelly-Moore Paints, Diamond Resorts International®, Fusion Marketing, Distribution Market Advantage (DMA), Shaklee, and many others, including leading retailers in fitness products, fine jewelry and the nation's largest provider of heavy-duty truck and trailer parts.
PivotLink racked up more industry accolades by being named to the AlwaysOn "Global 250," AlwaysOn "OnDemand Top 100" and JMP Securities' "2011 Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies." PivotLink also saluted customer Timbuk2, winner of Aberdeen Group's "2011 Industry Achievement Award for Business Analytics Excellence in retail analytics."
: PivotLink expanded operations at its San Francisco, California headquarters and its development and services operation in Bellevue, Washington by hiring in engineering, sales, services and marketing and transitioning Acteea employees to PivotLink as a result of the acquisition. The company continues to hire in 2012 to meet its aggressive growth plans.
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Find PivotLink at this week's (booth #158) through January 18, 2012 at the Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center in New York City, NY and the (booth #106) January 19 - 21, 2012 in Salt Lake City, UT.
PivotLink is the leader in on-demand retail performance management applications, serving retail and retail-related customers such as: REI; Fifth & Pacific Companies (formerly Liz Claiborne); Kelly-Moore; Timbuk2; Party City; Car Toys; Rossignol; Shaklee; and Zones. PivotLink's on-demand platform powers roughly 2,000,000 ad hoc reports and dashboards for more than 15,000 PivotLink users each month. PivotLink's award-winning solutions put affordable, secure and easy-to-use analytic tools into the hands of line of business users. PivotLink is a privately held company backed by Trident Capital, Emergence Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Pelion Venture Partners. Visit .
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