Type Private Area served Worldwide Website www.segment.com | Industry Computer Software Number of employees 51 to 200 | |
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Headquarters San Francisco, California, US Founders Calvin French-Owen, Peter Reinhardt, Ilya Volodarsky, Ian Storm Taylor | ||
Segment is an Internet software company based in San Francisco, California. The company is a platform for collecting customer data and sending it to analytics, marketing, and data warehousing services. Segment provides an API that collects and routes customer data to over 160 different tools and database services.
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History
Segment was founded in 2011 by MIT students Peter Reinhardt, Calvin French-Owen, Ilya Volodarsky, and RISD student Ian Storm Taylor, as a startup company from the American seed accelerator Y Combinator. The founders originally started out working on an edtech product that would tell professors when students were confused during class.
The company has raised a total of $44.6 million. The latest Series B funding was led by Thrive Capital, with existing investors Accel Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Jon Winkelried, former president of Goldman Sachs, participating.
Awards and recognitions
In 2015, Forbes named Segment one of the five hottest cloud-based marketing startups, and they placed the founding team on their 30 Under 30 list for enterprise tech. The company was included in the 2016 Wealthfront Career Launching Companies list.