Freespee
Overview
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| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
Type of site | B2B solutions marketing |
| Available in | English + others |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Area served | Europe, North America |
| Employees | 50+ |
| Website | www.freespee.com |
| Alexa rank |
 291,281 (April 2014)[1] |
| Launched | 2009 |
| Current status | Active |
Freespee is a UK multinational technology company headquartered in London United Kingdom that develops, licenses, supports and sells a Software-as-a-Service platform for online e-commerce companies.
The Freespee software allows users to monitor every voice or text event that occurs across calls, sms, chat, app messaging, and forms on the users desktop website, mobile website or mobile app. Using the real-time event data of the customers conversations the Freespee platform offers a range of features to personalise the customer experience.
The Freespee platform integrates with over 50 third-party software solutions from vendors such as Salesforce, Adobe, Google, Criteo, Marin software and Optimizely
History
Freespee was founded by Carl Holmquist and Tobias Lindgren in 2009 to develop a platform that could track website call and text events and trigger outcomes based on the data.
Before Freespee, Carl Holmquist launched cloud services for the Nordic Next Gen telco, IP-Only, and consulted for Ascade.com, Swisscom, Belgacom, Telenor, Allstream, One, and Telecom New Zealand. Carl and Tobias are also investor/advisors for 46elks, a cloud based communications platform for third party web and application developers.
Funding
Freespee is funded by venture capital companies Sunstone Capital,[2] Inventure [3] and Ventech.
In November 2016, Freespee raised a further $9.25 million of series B funding led by French venture capital firm Ventech, bringing the total to $16 million.[4]
Awards
In November 2014, Freespee was named 14th fastest growing Swedish startup at Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 [5]
In April 2015, Freespee was named the fastest growing Swedish startup at the Stockholm Tech5 Event [6]
References
- ↑ "Freespee.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ↑ "Freespee Raises Further €3.3 Million For Its Mobile Click-To-Call Advertising And Analytics Service". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Inventure invests in Freespee". Inventure Oy. Retrieved January 23, 2011.
- ↑ O'Hear, Steve. "Freespee secures €9.25M Series B to help companies manage conversations with customers". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
- ↑ "Deloitte Sweden Technology Fast 50 2014 | Deloitte Sverige". Deloitte Sweden. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
- ↑ Wright, Mic (2015-04-15). "Freespee Named Sweden's Fastest-Growing Startup". The Next Web. Retrieved 2016-11-07.