Last deal

$23M

Amount

Venture - Series Unknown

Stage

12.06.2000

Date

1

all rounds

$23M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Plumtree Software develops and sells software products for deploying web applications.

Industry

Sector :

Subsector :

founded date

01.01.1996

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

Plumtree Software's Enterprise Web Suite combines portal, content management, collaboration, integration, and search technologies. Their Corporate Portal supports applications and virtual community workspaces, while the Collaboration Server enables web-based collaboration. The Content Server allows for the publication and management of web content, and the Search Server indexes and searches all accessible content. The Studio Server provides tools for portal managers to create application components without coding. Plumtree Software also offers web services integration technologies, development and administration tools, and deployment and support services. They market and sell their products globally through various channels. Plumtree Software's solutions are used by over 21 million users worldwide, including customers like Airbus, Mazda, Pratt & Whitney, and the U.S. Navy.
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1

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type

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1

Glenn Kelman

Kirill Sheynkman
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Kirill Sheynkman is the Senior Managing Director of RTP Ventures. Kirill is focused on developing all aspects of the firm's investment strategy in the United States, building the firm's investment team, and creating a portfolio of Cloud, SaaS, Big Data, and Enterprise Infrastructure companies. Kirill, is a 20-year software industry veteran, who has spent 10 of those years as a CEO of software startups. He is a three-time founder of venture-backed enterprise software companies, including an early relational OLAP vendor acquired by IBM in 1995 and Plumtree Software (NASDAQ: PLUM), the creator of the corporate portal market, acquired by BEA/Oracle in 2005. Kirill's companies were twice backed by Sequoia Capital where he was also an Entrepreneur in Residence. Kirill also held sales, product management, and business development positions at Oracle and Microsoft. Kirill holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.

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Employee Profiles
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