Acquia

Acquia
Private
Industry Computer software
Founded 2007[1]
Founder Dries Buytaert
Jay Batson
Headquarters Burlington, Massachusetts[2], U.S.
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Tom Erickson (CEO)
Dries Buytaert (CTO)
Products Acquia Cloud
Acquia Cloud Site Factory
Acquia Lift
Acquia Insight
Mollom
Revenue Over $100 million (February 2015)
Number of employees
 600 (February 2015)
Website acquia.com

Acquia is a software-as-a-service company co-founded by Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson to provide enterprise products, services, and technical support for open-source web content management platform Drupal. It is financed by venture capital, receiving $118.5 million in six rounds.[3]

Growth

In 2013, Acquia was named the Fastest Growing Private Technology Company in North America by Deloitte[4] and remained in the Deloitte's Fastest 500 the next year.[5] In a May 2013 press release, the company stated that it has over 3,800 enterprise customers; that its hosting services handle over 2.5 billion HTTP requests per month; and that year over year revenue grew 108 percent between 2012 and 2013.[6] On August 21, 2012, Acquia was named #8 on the Inc. (magazine) 500 list for 2012, the #1 software company and #8 company in Boston.[7] On August 22, 2013, Inc. (magazine) 500 fastest growing private companies list, Acquia was ranked #8 in Software and overall #109 in the list.[8][9][10][11]

On May 27, 2014, the company announced closing a $50M Series F funding round, bringing the total investments to $118.6 million. The cash influx will be used to build out sales and marketing, including adding more channel partners.[12] In August 2014, Amazon made an undisclosed investment in Acquia, which the company plans to use to continue to build its platform for both commerce and content.[13]

Acquia surpassed $100 million in revenue for 2014, up 46 percent from 2013[14]

Market Presence

Acquia has received industry recognition, including being identified as a Leader the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management[15] and a Strong Performer in the 2015 Forrester Wave for Web Content Management Systems.[16]

Products

Its chief products[17] are:

Competitors

Acquia primarily competes in the multichannel ecommerce and web content management markets, against companies like Adobe Marketing Cloud and Sitecore.

References

  1. ↑ "Acquia raises $7M for Drupal platform". venturebeat.com. 2007-12-20. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
  2. ↑ "Contact Us". acquia.com. Archived from the original on 22 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
  3. ↑ "Acquia Lands $30 Million Series E To Scale Out Its Enterprise Drupal Development Platform". boston.com. 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
  4. ↑ "Technology Fast 500™ 2013 Ranking". deloitte.com. 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  5. ↑ Harris, David. "28 Mass. firms make Deloitte 500 fastest-growing companies list". bizjournals.com.
  6. ↑ "Acquia Revenue More than Doubles as its Open Source Solutions Soar". acquia.com. 2011-04-26. Retrieved 2011-04-27.
  7. ↑ "America's 10 Fastest Growing Private Companies". inc.com. 2011-04-21.
  8. ↑ "Acquia 8th Fastest-Growing Private Software Company on 2013 Inc. 500". MarketWatch. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  9. ↑ "Companies on the Inc.5000 include Sparc and Telogis". Inc.com. 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  10. ↑ "The 2013 Inc. 5000 List - BlueSquare Resolutions through iSirona". Inc.com. 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  11. ↑ "8th Fastest-Growing Private Software Company on 2013 Inc. 500". Acquia. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  12. ↑ Darrow, Barb (27 May 2014). "Acquia scores $50M in Series F funding". Gigaom.com. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  13. ↑ Duryee, Tricia. "Amazon makes an undisclosed investment in cloud services company Acquia". www.geekwire.com. Geek Wire. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  14. ↑ "IPO-bound Acquia reaches $100M annual revenue".
  15. ↑ "Gartner Magic Quadrant for WCM".
  16. ↑ "Forrester Wave for Web Content Management Systems".
  17. ↑ "Products & Services". acquia.com. Archived from the original on 22 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-26.

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