Talk:Smartsheet/draft

Smartsheet.com, Inc. is a private company that develops and markets the Smartsheet application. As of 20178, it has about 550 more than 760 employees^[1][2] and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington^[3] The company was founded in the summer of 2006, shortly after co-founder Brent Frei sold his prior company, Onyx Software.^[4][5][6] Initially it was funded mostly by Frei.^[4] About a year after its founding, Smartsheet had raised $4 million in funding and had just nine employees.^[5] By early 2012 it had raised $8.2 million in funding over three rounds and hired its first salesperson.^[7][8]

After the Smartsheet software was redesigned in 2010, the company's revenues grew by more than 100 percent each year, for four consecutive years.^[9] It raised $26 million in funding in December 2012^[10][8] and another $35 million in May 2014.^[7] In 2017, the company raised an additional $52.1 million in funding.^[2] That same year, Smartsheet acquired Converse.AI, a Scotland-based company that develops software for creating business automation bots.^[11] It also hosted its first user conference, Engage.^[12]