Akeneo
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Genre | Product information management |
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Founded | 2013 |
Founders | Frédéric de Gombert, Benoit Jacquemont, Nicolas Dupont and Yoav Kutner |
Headquarters | Nantes (France) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Number of employees | 120+ |
Subsidiaries | Germany - USA - Israel - UK |
Website |
akeneo |
Akeneo is a French company created in 2013 in Nantes[1] by a Franco-American team (including Yoav Kutner - co-founder and former CTO of Magento) and based in Nantes, Boston and Düsseldorf. Akeneo is specialized in open source product information management, also known as PIM.[2] Akeneo develops the software Akeneo PIM.[3] Available under the open source license 3.0,[4] the first public beta of Akeneo PIM was released in September 2013.[5][6]
Name's origin
Akeneo comes from the Greek word akene, like the achenes' fruits that contains all the fruits' information and spread them along the winds.
History
- January 2013: Creation of Akeneo, by Frédéric de Gombert, Benoit Jacquemont, Nicolas Dupont and Yoav Kutner.
- September 2013: Release of the Beta version 1.0.0.
- August 2013: Fund raising of €350,000.[7]
- September 2014: Fund raising of $2.3 Million[8][9]
- January 2016: Akeneo opened 2 subsidiaries, one in Düsseldorf (Germany)[10] and one in Boston (USA)
- January 2016: Frédéric de Gombert, co-founder and CEO, wins the prize La Tribune-BNP Paribas Jeune entrepreneur with Akeneo PIM.[11]
- February 2016: Akeneo becomes co-founder and partner of the Open Source School created by the group Smile and the school EPSI.[12]
- April 2016: Roy Rubin, former CEO & co-founder of Magento join the Advisory Board of Akeneo
- March 2017: Fund raising of $13 Million[13][14]
- January 2018: Acquisition of the israeli startup Sigmento [15]
Products
Akeneo PIM
Akeneo PIM is an open source PIM software (Product information management) build under license OSL 3.0 and written in PHP.
See below the version board:[16]
Note that the names of CE releases are based on Bugs Bunny episodes, and EE releases on vegetals that have akenes.
Release date | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition |
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September 2013 | 1.0.0-beta1 "A Wild Hare" | - |
March 2014 | 1.0.0 "Hare we go" | - |
April 2014 | 1.1.0 "Rabbit Punch" | - |
August 2014 | 1.2.0 "Acrobatty Bunny" | 1.0.0 "Dandelion" |
February 2015 | 1.3.0 "Hare Force" | 1.3.0 "Strawberry" |
September 2015 | 1.4.0 "Rhapsody Rabbit" | 1.4.0 "Samara" |
March 2016 | 1.5.0 "Fresh Hare" | 1.5.0 "Sunflower" |
September 2016 | 1.6.0 "Wackiki Wabbit" | 1.6.0 "Tulip tree" |
March 2017 | 1.7.0 "The Old Grey Hare" | 1.7.0 "Artichoke" |
September 2017 | 2.0.0 "Rebel Rabbit" | 2.0.0 "Hazel" |
January 2018 | 2.1.0 "Prest-O Change-O" | 2.1.0 "Walnut" |
April 2018 | 2.2.0 "Bonanza Bunny" | 2.2.0 "Chestnut" |
Notes and references
References
- ↑ "Open-source IT start-up Akeneo raises $2.4m from Alven Capital". 2014-09-23.
- ↑ "Agence Dn'D - Premier partenaire Gold d'Akeneo PIM | Agence DnD". Agence Dn'D. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ↑ "StrikeTru Announces Market America | SHOP.COM goes Live with Akeneo Product Information Management (PIM) Solution to Speed up Product Releases on its eCommerce Websites". PRWeb. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
- ↑ "Choosing a Good PIM Solution Based on Six Key Features". IT Consultis. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
- ↑ "Il était une fois un PIM !". Buy The Way (in French). Retrieved 2016-02-05.
- ↑ "PIM systems: the ultimate strategic tool to make the most out of your digital business [5 Reading tips]". Handelskraft – The E-Commerce and Online Marketing Blog - PIM systems: the ultimate strategic tool to make the most out of your digital business [5 Reading tips] (in German). 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ↑ "CrunchBase".
- ↑ "Akeneo Raises $2.3 Million To Replace Excel For Catalog Management". 2014-09-23.
- ↑ "Akeneo raises $2.4 Million for its Open Source Marketing Operations tool". 2014-09-30.
- ↑ 2002-2016, PresseBox (c). "Tobias Schlotter wechselt zu Akeneo - Akeneo - Pressemitteilung". www.pressebox.de (in German). Retrieved 2016-02-15.
- ↑ "PLTJE 2016 : Nantes et sa région ont choisi leurs lauréats". La Tribune (in French). Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ↑ "Open Source School : la première école spécialisée dans l'informatique open source". Programmez!. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ↑ "SiliconRepublic".
- ↑ "LeJournalDesEntreprises".
- ↑ "Times Of Israel".
- ↑ "Github".