Workspot, Inc.

Workspot, Inc
Industry Cloud Desktops and VDI
Founded Cupertino, California, USA, 2013
Founders Ty Wang (Vice President) Puneet Chawla (CTO) Amitabh Sinha (CEO)
Headquarters Cupertino, California, USA
Products Workspot
Number of employees
 50-100 [1]
Website workspot.com

Workspot is based in Cupertino, California. It provides Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) software to help enterprise IT departments deliver apps and data to mobile devices. Workspot was recognized by Gartner as a 'Cool Vendor' in endpoint computing for 2014.[2][3][4]

History

Workspot was founded on August 1, 2012 by Ty Wang, Puneet Chawla, and Amitabh Sinha. Amitabh Sinha is the CEO, Puneet Chawla is the CTO, and Ty Wang is the vice-president. Workspot raised seed funding from KPCB,[5] Norwest, and Redpoint.[6][7] Prior to Workspot, Amitabh Sinha was the General Manager of Enterprise Desktops and Applications at Citrix. Puneet Chawla was the first engineer on the VMware View product at VMware. Ty Wang was the VP of Business Development at cloud messaging startup Twilio.

Workspot bought the name workspot from Greg Bryant in April 2013.

Workspot was launched at the Techcrunch Disrupt Event in New York in April 2013.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/workspot
  2. ↑ https://www.gartner.com/doc/2734818
  3. ↑ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/workspot-named-a-2014-cool-vendor-by-gartner-1912881.htm
  4. ↑ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/workspot-named-2014-cool-vendor-200000952.html
  5. ↑ http://www.kpcb.com/companies/workspot
  6. ↑ http://www.pehub.com/2013/04/workspot-raises-1-9m-from-kleiner-norwest-redpoint-others/
  7. ↑ http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2014/05/13/workspot-obtains-4000000-new-financing/
  8. ↑ https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/30/workspot-mobile-enterprise/
  9. ↑ https://venturebeat.com/2014/05/12/workspots-work-anywhere-tech-gives-workers-a-mobile-option/
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