Press Releases

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Appirio Secures $10 Million in Series C Funding from GGV Capital and Sequoia Capital

Appirio and the Cloud Computing Market Continue to Grow and Attract Investment in a Tough Economy

SAN MATEO, CA.—February 25, 2009—Today Appirio (www.appirio.com), a leading on-demand products and professional services company, today announced that it has secured $10 million in Series C financing from GGV Capital and Sequoia Capital, which will be used to further invest in product development, go-to-market strategies and services to help businesses confidently move to cloud computing. Appirio also plans to use the money to invest in and expand strategic partnerships. Today’s funding follows a Series B investment of $5.6 million led by Sequoia Capital in July 2008. In total, Appirio has raised $16.7 million in funding.

Appirio Expands Operations in Japan, Helps Lead Japan Post Cloud Computing Implementation

Experienced Appirio Team Already Engaged with Largest International Force.com Implementation

TOKYO AND SAN MATEO, CA.—February 25, 2009—Appirio, a products and professional services company accelerating the adoption of on-demand in the enterprise, announced its first international expansion into Japan. As part of this expansion, Appirio announced that it will be working closely with salesforce.com to lead the Force.com platform implementation at Japan Post Network Co., Ltd. Japan Post Network Co., Ltd. offers postal, banking and life insurance services and is the largest employer in Japan, serving over 50 million individual customers and employing over 100,000 people. It is also the largest Force.com cloud computing platform implementation in the world.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Appirio Referral Management Solution Connects Social Networks with Business Applications to Encourage, Manage and Measure Word-of-Mouth Referrals

Appirio Allows Enterprises To Extend Their Sales, Marketing and Recruiting Programs to More Than 150 Million Members on Facebook
SAN MATEO, CA.—February 2, 2009—Today Appirio (www.appirio.com), a leading on-demand products and professional services company, introduced the Appirio Referral Management Solution to help businesses take advantage of existing social networks like Facebook to recruit new employees, raise awareness of new offerings and create closer relationships with customers. The new Appirio solution connects today's fastest-growing social network, Facebook, with over 150 million users, and salesforce.com's industry-leading CRM and Force.com platform to give companies a more systematic way to encourage, manage and measure word-of-mouth referrals.
 
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