Workboard
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Industry | Active Strategy Management |
Founded | February 11, 2013[1] |
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Headquarters | 460 Seaport Court Suite 102, Redwood City, California, USA[2] |
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Products | Workboard App |
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Workboard, Inc. provides SaaS solutions for Active Strategy Management software and is based in Redwood City, California. It was founded in 2013[1] by Deidre Paknad and Daryoush Paknad.
History
Deidre Paknad has a history of founding companies before Workboard, including PSS Systems[3] which was acquired by IBM in 2010.[4] After working at IBM she thought of the idea for Workboard after dealing with inefficiency in her tenure there.[5][6] Starting at their founding in 2013 Paknad and co-founder Daryoush Paknad, focused on "VQ", Velocity Quotient, that they define as the speed at which an organization is able to accomplish a goal.[7] In 2014 Workboard secured US$2,750,000 (equivalent to $2,842,775 in 2017) in seed money from several venture capital firms including: Opus Capital, Granite Ventures, Crosslink Capital.[8] It announced a US$9,300,000 Series A round in December 2017 led by Floodgate and Microsoft Ventures.[9] Arjun Chopra and Priya Sapraisad joined the board.[9] Hundreds of organizations use Workboard including: IBM, Liberty Mutual and Samsung.
See also
References
- 1 2 "WORKBOARD, INC". OpenCorporates. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ↑ "Statement of Information". Business Filings. Secretary of State of California. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ↑ S&P Global Market Intelligence (2016). "Deidre Paknad: Executive Profile". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
- ↑ Dunn, Laura (27 March 2015). "Women in Business: Deidre Paknad, CEO and Co-Founder, Workboard". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ↑ Paknad, Deidre. "Our Story". Workboard. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ↑ Stengel, Geri (6 April 2016). "The Killer App: Pairing Technology With People". Forbes. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
- ↑ Kosinski, Matthew (17 December 2015). "How to Measure Your Organization's 'Velocity'". Recruiter. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ↑ Avellana, Nicel Jane (26 February 2014). "Workboard gets $2.75M in Series A round". Venture Capital Post. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- 1 2 Soper, Taylor (13 December 2017). "Microsoft Ventures invests in SaaS 'Active Strategy Management' startup Workboard, Workboard". Geek Wire. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
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