Qlik
| Public (NASDAQ: QLIK) | |
| Industry | Business Intelligence, Business Discovery, Business Analysis, Software Company |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Radnor, Pennsylvania |
Key people |
Lars Björk, CEO Tim MacCarrick, CFO Les Bonney, CSO Anthony Deighton, CTO/SVP Products Diane Adams, Chief People Officer Rick Jackson, CMO |
| Products | QlikView, Qlik Sense, Expressor, NPrinting |
Number of employees | 2,500 (October, 2015) |
| Website | http://qlik.com |
Qlik is a software company based in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Qlik is the provider of QlikView and Qlik Sense, business intelligence & visualization software.
History
Qlik (previously known as QlikTech) was founded in Lund, Sweden in 1993 as a software company in business intelligence (BI).[1] Its PC-based desktop tool was called QuikView. "Quik" stood for "Quality, Understanding, Interaction, Knowledge." Initially the software was sold only in Sweden.[2]
Måns Hultman became CEO in 2000 and Lars Björk became CFO. The company grew from 35 employees in 1999 to 70 in 2003. In 2003, Qlik raised $12.5 million in capital.[3] In 2005, the single-user desktop tool was replaced with a server-based web tool. In 2004, Accel and Jerusalem Venture Partners, an Israeli venture capital fund founded by Erel Margalit, invested in Qlik, turning it into an international software house.[4] Qlik established partnerships with Intel and HP, and incorporated charts and colors in their UI. Qlik customers include DB Schenker, Dendrite, Ericsson, and the Swedish Post.
In 2007, Lars Björk became Qlik’s CEO. The company claims a user base of 34,000 customers in 100 countries.[5] The company held an initial public offering in July 2010.
As of April 2011, the company had a market capitalization over $2 billion.[6]
In 2013, the company opened an office in Western Australia.[7]