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Applause (software company)

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Number of employees
  
301 FTE

Headquarters
  
Framingham

Founded
  
August 2007

Type of business
  
Private

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Industry
  
Software Testing Crowdsourcing Software Quality Assurance

Key people
  
Doron Reuveni, CEO and Co-founder Thom Kenney, CTO Chris Malone, CFO Roy Solomon, VP Product Management and Co-Founder Tom Bonos, Senior VP Global Sales John Montgomery, Senior VP, Operations Rahul Shah, Senior VP Global Delivery & Customer Service Jan Wolter, General Manager, Applause EU Michael Weinberg, VP & General Manager, Applause Israel

Website
  
http://www.applause.com/

Founders
  
Roy Solomon, Doron Reuveni

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Applause App Quality, Inc. is a venture-funded company that tests software and conducts usability feedback research.

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The company's headquarters are located in Framingham, Massachusetts. It has additional U.S. locations in San Mateo, California and Seattle, Washington. Its European headquarters are located in Berlin, and it has additional offices in Poland and Israel.

History and Acquisitions

The company was originally incorporated under the name uTest in August 2007 by founders Doron Reuveni and Roy Solomon with $2.3M in seed funding from Mesco Ltd. and the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation (MTDC).

  • August 2012: The company acquired an SDK, Apphance, and staff from Polish company Polidea
  • January 2014: The company closed a $43 million Series E round of funding, led by Goldman Sachs, bringing its current funding to more than $80 million.
  • May 2014: The company changed its name to Applause concurrent with the acquisition of German testing company Testhub, which became Applause's European headquarters.
  • September 2016: The company closed a $35 million Series F round of funding, led by Credit Suisse with investment also from strategic partner Accenture, bringing its current funding to more than $115 million.

    • Applause subsequently repurposed the uTest brand as a community of professional testers. Growing to more than 250,000 testers, uTest relaunched as a brand of Applause App. Quality, Inc. in 2015 with an updated site as a social network for software testers.

    Product

    Applause provides testing services, usability feedback and research. Notable customers include Google, Fox Broadcasting, eBay, Concur and Runkeeper.

    References

    Applause (software company) Wikipedia
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