Tech Company Financing Transactions

Algolia Funding Round

On 6/9/2017, Algolia announced $53 million in Series B investment from Accel Partners, Alven Capital Partners and private investors.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
6/9/2017
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$53,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Accel Partners (Lead Investor) (Philippe Botteri)

Alven Capital Partners

private investors (Clark Valberg)

private investors (Des Traynor)

private investors (Jyoti Bansal)

Point Nine Capital

SaaStr Fund (Jason Lemkin)

Storm Ventures (Jason Lemkin)

Proceeds Purpose
With today's funding round, Algolia is going to open another office in London after Paris, San Francisco, New York City and Atlanta. And of course, the company wants to get new customers, build new features and maybe one day become the Stripe of search.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Enterprise IT
Mailing Address
301 Howard St. 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Email Address
Overview
Algolia's Search API makes it easy to deliver a great search experience in your apps & websites. Algolia Search provides hosted full-text, numerical, faceted and geolocalized search.
Profile
Algolia LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Algolia Company Twitter Account
Company News
Algolia News
Facebook
Algolia on Facebook
YouTube
Algolia on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Bernadette Nixon
  Bernadette Nixon LinkedIn Profile  Bernadette Nixon Twitter Account  Bernadette Nixon News  Bernadette Nixon on Facebook
Chief Financial Officer
Carlton Baab
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Chief Technical Officer
Julien Lemoine
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VP - Bus. Development
Piyush Patel
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VP - Customer Service
James Schattin
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VP - Engineering
Sylvain Utard
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VP - General Counsel
Adanech Getachew
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VP - Human Resources
Kristie Rodenbush
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VP - Product Management
Bharat Guruprakash
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VP - Sales
Michelle Adams
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VP - Sales
Gaëtan Gachet
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