Bazaarvoice
| Bazaarvoice, Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US0732711082 |
| founding | May 2005 |
| Seat |
Austin United States
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| management | Brett Hurt |
| Number of employees | 780 (January 2012) |
| sales | $ 64.5 million |
| Branch | Software manufacturer |
| Website | www.bazaarvoice.com |
| Status 2011 | |
Bazaarvoice, Inc. is an American software company founded in 2005 by Brett A. Hurt and Brant Barton. The company is headquartered in the Texas city of Austin and has offices in Amsterdam , London , Munich , Paris , Stockholm and Sydney (as of 2012).
The company's shares have been traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange since February 24, 2012 .
Bazaarvoice is active in the field of online marketing and offers its service to other companies as software as a service . It specializes in user-generated content , where customers of online shops can rate and recommend products.
The company is growing very quickly, but has not yet made a profit in its history. (As of March 2012) More than two-thirds of sales are generated in the USA and increased from 22.5 million US dollars in 2009 to 64.5 million US dollars in 2011.
In February 1999, co-founder Brett Hurt founded Coremetrics , a web analytics company that was taken over by IBM in mid-2010 .
In September 2007, two venture capital firms Battery Ventures and Austin Ventures invested $ 9 million in Bazaarvoice. First Round Capital and others had previously made capital available to the company.
The company's acquisition PowerReviews of San Francisco was completed on 12 June 2012 found. The transaction was valued at $ 168.2 million.
According to its own statements, Bazaarvoice had a total of 737 customers at the end of January 2012, 87 of them from the Fortune 500 list.
In 2017, the takeover of the company by Marlin Equity Partners was decided.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f files.shareholder.com: FORM 424B4 (PDF file; 2.0 MB) (February 24, 2012)
- ↑ online.wsj.com : Bazaarvoice IPO Opens Up 33% After Pricing Above Range (2012)
- ↑ IBM : BIBM Advances Analytics with Acquisition of Coremetrics (June 15, 2010)
- ↑ Bazaarvoice Secures Nearly $ 9M in Second Round Funding ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (September 11, 2007)
- ↑ Bazaarvoice, Inc. Completes Acquisition of PowerReviews, Inc. ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (June 12, 2012)
