Website keynote.com Founded 1 January 1995 | Area served Worldwide Founder Umang Gupta Type of business Private | |
Founders James Barrick and Andy Popell Subsidiaries Keynote SIGOS GmbH, Vividence Corp, Velogic, Keynote Canada, Keynote Europe Limited | ||
Keynote Systems is a US-based Internet company that specializes in developing and marketing software as a service technology solutions to measure, test, improve, from the end user perspective, the performance of websites, online content, applications, and services across browsers, networks, and mobile devices. Keynote provides independent testing, measurement and monitoring of mobile content, applications, and services on real devices across multiple mobile operator networks around the world.
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Headquartered in San Mateo, California, and employing ~300 people, the company went public on NASDAQ on September 24, 1999.
The company's Internet and mobile monitoring products and services run its proprietary software that measure online business performance from the viewpoint of a geographically dispersed user base utilizing a network of over 3,000 strategically located measurement and testing computers and mobile devices in over 275 locations around the world.
Keynote’s delivers its solutions in the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model. The company claims over 2,800 corporate customers representing top Internet and mobile companies including American Express, BP, Caterpillar, Disney, eBay, E*TRADE, Expedia, Microsoft, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone.
Milestones
Keynote secures $4.7 million in equity financing
Keynotes named 13th fastest growing North American tech company
Keynote acquires Xaffire’s Insight Service Suite
Keynote’s Voice Perspective Service named one of the top 25 innovations of 2007 by VoIP News
Keynote launches Web Site Performance index for 2008 Olympics Keynotes introduces KITE (Keynote Internet Testing Environment)
Keynote launches MITE (Mobile Internet Testing Environment) – desktop based mobile testing
Keynote Systems wins Gold Mobile Star Award for mobile application testing
Keynote MITE wins Jolt Product Excellence Award Keynote Systems earns ‘On Fire’ ratings from Forrester Keynote releases Transaction Perspective 9.0 – support for monitoring interactive Flash and Silverlight Web Applications
Acquisitions
In the last 15 years Keynote Systems has grown organically and through a series of acquisitions. Its growth strategy has included mergers and acquisitions. The company has acquired 14 companies since May 2000.