Pipedrive
Pipedrive is a multinational cloud-based software as a service company founded in Estonia. It is the developer of the web application and mobile app Pipedrive, a sales customer relationship management (CRM) tool. The company is headquartered in New York, and has more than 800 employees in eight offices across Europe (Tallinn, Tartu, Lisbon, London, Prague, Dublin, Riga and Berlin) and two offices in the US (New York and Florida). Its CRM is used by over 100,000 customers around the world. In 2020, Pipedrive became the fifth Estonian-founded unicorn.
History
Pipedrive was founded on June 21, 2010, by Timo Rein, Urmas Purde, Ragnar Sass, Martin Tajur, and Martin Henk. In 2011, Pipedrive joined AngelPad. It was the only European startup of the 15 teams the accelerator hosted. By 2019, Pipedrive raised a total of $91.2 million in venture funding from Atomico, Bessemer Venture Partners, Paua Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and others. In 2019, Financial Times included Pipedrive in the FT 1000, a list of Europe's fastest-growing companies. On November 14, 2020, Pipedrive received a majority investment from investment firm Vista Equity Partners and reached unicorn status.