InsideView

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InsideView is a Software as a service company based in San Francisco, California, with a development office in Hyderabad, India.

1 Operations
2 History
3 Venture capital funding
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Operations

InsideView's platform aggregates information about companies, executives, and related events (news, blogs, SEC filings, job listings, social network data) for approximately 700,000 North American companies. This information comes from a variety of structured and unstructured content sources such as Reuters, Dun & Bradstreet, Zoominfo, Hoover's, Jigsaw Data, SimplyHired, LinkedIn, and Facebook. InsideView also parses news and information from approximately 25,000 Web-based news publications and blogs.

InsideView's core product, SalesView, is available as a stand-alone Web application as well as integrated with CRM vendors like salesforce.com and SugarCRM.

[edit] History

InsideView was founded in 2005 by Umberto Milletti, a former executive and co-founder at DigitalThink, an early Web-based corporate training company.

InsideView acquired competitor TrueAdvantage in November, 2007.

InsideView launched a new product, SalesView, in March, 2008.

[edit] Venture capital funding

In June 2007, the company raised $7.4 million in Series A funding, in a round led by Emergence Capital Partners, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley that specializes in software-as-a-service funding.

[edit] External links

[edit] References

MySpace Mind-Set Finally Shows Up at the Office
New York Times story on InsideView and other software companies in the "social networks for business" space, April 9, 2008

Enter the socialprise
ZDNet blog post by Phil Wainewright, March 18, 2008

Enter the socialprise

InsideView Secures $7.4 Million in Series A Funding
American Venture Magazine, June 5, 2007

InsideView Secures $7.4 Million in Series A Funding

InsideView acquires TrueAdvantage, to boost online market intelligence
VentureBeat blog post on InsideView's acquisition of rival TrueAdvantage, November 26, 2007