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Freshworks Funding Round

Freshworks closed a $100 million venture capital round on 8/1/2018. Backers included Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital and CapitalG.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Freshworks
Announced On
8/1/2018
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$100,000,000
Round
Undisclosed
Investors

Accel Partners (Lead Investor) (Sameer Gandhi)

Sequoia Capital (Lead Investor) (Mohit Bhatnagar)

CapitalG

Proceeds Purpose
The cash infusion will be used to further expand Freshworks' worldwide expansion as well as continued investment in its integrated SaaS platform.

Company Information

Company Status
Publicly-held
Industry
Enterprise IT
Mailing Address
2950 S. Delaware St. 201
San Mateo, CA 94403
USA
Phone
(650) 513-0514
Website
www.freshworks.com
Email Address
[email protected]
Overview
Let's face it. Most people hate the software they use at work. Business software is clunky, expensive, hard to setup and frustrating to use. Countless hours are wasted trying to customize these solutions and they often require expensive professional services to get everything to work.
Profile
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Social Media
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YouTube
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Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Girish Mathrubootham
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Chief Information Officer
Prasad Ramakrishnan
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Chief Information Officer
Shivanath Somanathan
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Chief Marketing Officer
David Thompson
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Chief Technical Officer
Shan Krishnasamy
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General Manager
Sreelesh Pillai
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Vice President
Anand Venkatraman
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VP - Engineering
STS Prasad
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VP - General Counsel
Henock Gessesse
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VP - Human Resources
Suman Gopalan
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VP - Operations
Arun Mani
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VP - Product Management
Prakash Ramamurthy
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VP - Sales
Bobby Jaffari
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VP - Sales
Sidharth Malik
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VP - Sales
Sukumar Ramachandran
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