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Optimizely is a firm that makes customer experience optimization software for companies. The Optimizely platform technology provides businesses with the ability to conduct A/B testing, multivariate testing and personalization that may be used for making data-driven decisions. Their offering includes a testing product for websites (both desktop and mobile), as well as a testing solution for iOS apps. ==History== Headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Optimizely was founded in 2010 by Dan Siroker and Pete Koomen, both formerly of Google. Dan Siroker was a product manager for Google Chrome who also served as the Director of Analytics for the Obama campaign. Pete Koomen was the product manager for Google's App Engine. Optimizely completed the Y Combinator program in the winter of 2010. In November 2010, Optimizely closed a $1.2 million funding round from angel investors. The company became cash flow positive in 2011. In May 2012, Optimizely announced that it has raised new funding from Battery Ventures, Google Ventures, and InterWest Partners. In April 2013, Optimizely raised $28 million in Series A round funding. The round was led by Benchmark, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and Optimizely's existing investors Battery Ventures, InterWest Partners, and Google Ventures. Benchmark's Peter Fenton whose past investments include Yelp and Twitter joined Optimizely's board of directors. As part of a larger international expansion plan, Optimizely announced in April 2013 the launch of their platform in nine additional languages Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. In April 2014, the San Francisco Business Times ranked Optimizely as the #1 place to work among medium-sized companies (101-500 employees). On April 17, Optimizely held its first Opticon user conference, where they announced the launch of their new mobile app A/B testing software. In May 2014, Optimizely raised $57 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Benchmark and Bain Capital Ventures. As part of the round, Scott Weiss general partner at Andreessen Horowitz joined Optimizely's board of directors. In October 2015, released their second product for mobile and website personalization. Also in October, Optimizely raised $58 million in Series C funding, led by Index Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Citi Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Danhua Capital, Pharus Capital Management, Salesforce Ventures and Tenaya Capital. As part of the round, Ilya Fushman of Index Ventures joined Optimizely's board of directors. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Optimizely」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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