Appirio
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| Company type | Cloud computing |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | San Mateo, California (2006) |
| Defunct | March 2021 |
| Fate | Acquired by Wipro (2016) |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Number of locations | Indianapolis, Indiana London, United Kingdom Dublin, Ireland Jaipur, India Tokyo, Japan Espoo, Finland Stockholm, Sweden Sydney, Australia Porto, Portugal |
Key people | Chris Barbin Narinder Singh Glenn Weinstein Mike O'Brien |
| Parent | Wipro |
Appirio, a Wipro company, was an information technology consulting company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana (United States) that offered technology and professional services to companies wishing to adopt public cloud applications.[1] This included Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service technologies like Salesforce.com, and Google Apps.[2] Appirio ran as a serverless company, utilizing only public cloud solutions and no in-house datacenter.[3]
On 20 October 2016, Appirio announced that they would be acquired by Wipro, an Indian information technology services corporation based in Bangalore, India, for $500 million.[4][5] On 31 March 2021, the Appirio brand was retired by Wipro and merged into its Salesforce practice.[6]
- In 2006, Appirio was founded by Chris Barbin (former Borland Software CIO), Narinder Singh, Glenn Weinstein, and Mike O’Brien.[7]
- In 2007, Appirio established its headquarters in Salesforce.com's Startup Incubator in San Mateo, California.[8]
- In 2012, Appirio moved its headquarters to San Francisco, California.[9]
- In August 2015, Appirio announced that the Indianapolis Office would be named company headquarters.[10]
- In early 2008, Appirio secured a Series A investment of $1.1 million from Salesforce.com and angel investors. Then, the firm secured $5.6 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital in July 2008.[11]
- A Series C round came in February 2009 with a $10 million funding from Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital.[12]
- A Series D funding round for $60 million followed in March 2012, led by private equity firm General Atlantic.[13]
- In October 2009, Appirio's Chief Architect, Jason Ouellette[14] released a book titled Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud, released under Addison-Wesley Professional.[15]
- In April 2010, Appirio was named "OnDemand Company of the Year" by AlwaysOn, selected as a "Best Place to Work in the Bay Area" by the San Francisco Business Times, and listed in Gartner's "Who's Who in Cloud Computing/SaaS Integration".[16][17][18]
- In July, 2010, Appirio was featured in The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations, a technology novel written by Vinnie Mirchandani.[19]
- In March 2011, Appirio acquired Infowelders, a Salesforce consultancy based in Louisville, KY.[20]
- In December 2011, Appirio acquired Saaspoint, a provider of cloud consulting services in Europe.[21]
- In November 2012, it went on to acquire Knowledge Infusion, a human resources and talent management advisory and consulting services firm.[22]
- In September 2013, Appirio acquired Topcoder, a community of 500,000 developers, engineers and designers that find and collaborate on software development assignments ranging from applications and websites, to back-end corporate systems. CloudSpokes, Appirio's competing platform with 75,000 users, was merged into Topcoder in January 2014.
Locations
- Indianapolis, IN
- Minato, Tokyo, Japan
- London, UK
- Dublin, Ireland
- Sydney, Australia
- Espoo, Finland
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Porto, Portugal
- Pune, Bangalore, India
- Greater Noida, India
- Hyderabad, India
- Jaipur, India