Type Private Area served Worldwide Headquarters Boston Number of employees 800 Chief revenue officer Jairo Romero | Industry Computer software Website acquia.com CEO Thomas Erickson (2009–) Chief people officer Heather Hartford | |
Key people Tom Erickson (CEO)
Dries Buytaert (CTO)
Tim Bertrand
Preston Bradford
Chris Stone
Heather Hartford Founded 2007, Andover, Massachusetts, United States Founders Jay Batson, Dries Buytaert Profiles | ||
The acquia story
Acquia is a software-as-a-service company co-founded by Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson to provide enterprise products, services, and technical support for open-source web content management platform Drupal.
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The company is venture capital backed, having received $173.5 million in eight rounds. The most recent Series G round of funding raised $55 million in September 2015, led by Centerview Capital. Other investors include Amazon, New Enterprise Associates, Investor Grown Capital, and North Bridge Venture Partners. In February 2015 Acquia announced it had surpassed $100 million in revenue for 2014, up 46 percent from 2013.
In 2013, Acquia was named the Fastest Growing Private Technology Company in North America by Deloitte and remained in the Deloitte's Fastest 500 the next year. On August 21, 2012, Acquia was named #8 on the Inc. (magazine) 500 list for 2012, the #1 software company and #8 company in Boston. On August 22, 2013, Inc. (magazine) 500 fastest growing private companies list, Acquia was ranked #8 in Software and overall #109 in the list.
Acquia has received industry recognition, including being identified as a Leader by the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management and a Strong Performer in the 2015 Forrester Wave for Web Content Management Systems.