SilkRoad, Inc.

SilkRoad Technology, Inc. was founded in North Carolina in 2003 by Andrew "Flip" Filipowski with Eprise, and launched at the Human Resource Executive Technology Conference and Expo in Chicago in 2005.[5]

SilkRoad Technology acquired OpenHire, based in Winston-Salem in 2004.[6]

SilkRoad Technology acquired VTN Technologies, Inc., a company known for its Olé Online Learning Environment training software, in 2008,[7] and had raised $54 million in Series C funding by this year.[8] The company also opened offices in Asia and the Pacific Rim.

The company headquarters relocated to Chicago in 2010, but the Boston and Winston-Salem locations are the primary design and development centers.[9]

Investors include Foundation Capital, Azure Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Intel Capital, Keating Capital, and Crosslink Ventures. In May 2012, SilkRoad announced it had secured $35 million financing in a Series C Round.[10][11] In August 2013, SilkRoad secured another $16 million, bringing its total funding to $145 million.[12][13] In May 2015, SilkRoad secured another loan for $7.5 million, bringing its total funding to $152.5 million.[14]

In 2017 SilkRoad Technology, Inc. partnered with Career Builder to expand Career Builder's expanded onboarding offering.

SilkRoad Technology's corporate headquarters are in Chicago with offices in Boston, Jacksonville, Florida, Red Bank, New Jersey, San Francisco, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

SilkRoad Technology operates in facilities around the globe, including [15] Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; London, England; Paris, France; Düsseldorf, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; Singapore; Sydney, Australia; Hong Kong; Shanghai, China; Tokyo, Japan; Osaka, Japan; Taguig, Philippines; and Auckland, New Zealand.[16]

Name	Description
Recruiting (OpenHire)	Recruiting Management and Applicant Tracking System[17]
Onboarding (RedCarpet)	Onboarding and Life Events[18]
Learning (GreenLight)	Learning Management[19][20]
Performance (WingSpan)	Performance Management[21]
HeartBeat	HRIS/HRMS[22]
Point	Social Collaboration and Content Management[23][24]

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