Akeneo
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| Genre | Product information management |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Frédéric de Gombert, Benoit Jacquemont, Nicolas Dupont and Yoav Kutner |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Frédéric de Gombert, CEO |
Number of employees | 200+ |
| Website | akeneo |
Akeneo is a technology company that develops product information management (PIM) and product data intelligence software to improve customer experience.[1][2] The company was founded in 2013 by Frédéric de Gombert, Benoit Jacquemont, Nicolas Dupont and Yoav Kutner. Akeneo is headquartered in Nantes, France and has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Israel and Australia with more than 200 employees.[3][4] It has worked with customers including Shop.com, Fossil, Midland Scientific, Air Liquide and Auchan.[5]
Name's origin
Akeneo comes from the Greek word akene, like the achenes' fruits that contains all the fruits' information and spread them along the winds.
History
- January 2013: Creation of Akeneo, by Frédéric de Gombert, Benoit Jacquemont, Nicolas Dupont and Yoav Kutner.
- September 2013: Release of the Beta version 1.0.0.
- August 2013: Fund raising of €350,000.[6]
- September 2014: Fund raising of $2.3 Million[7][8]
- January 2016: Akeneo opened 2 subsidiaries, one in Düsseldorf (Germany)[9] and one in Boston (USA)
- January 2016: Frédéric de Gombert, co-founder and CEO, wins the prize La Tribune-BNP Paribas Jeune entrepreneur with Akeneo PIM.[10]
- February 2016: Akeneo becomes co-founder and partner of the Open Source School created by the group Smile and the school EPSI.[11]
- April 2016: Roy Rubin, former CEO & co-founder of Magento join the Advisory Board of Akeneo
- March 2017: Fund raising of $13 Million[12][13]
- January 2018: Acquisition of the Israeli startup Sigmento [14]
- December 2018: Salesforce Ventures invests on Akeneo [15]
- September 2019: Fund raising of $46 Million
Products
Akeneo's products include two versions of its open-source PIM software: a free community edition (CE) as well as an enterprise software as a service (SaaS) edition (EE). More than 70,000 companies use the free community edition (CE) version.[5] Akeneo PIM open source software is built under license OSL 3.0 and written in PHP. In addition, the company launched additional modules for onboarding product information from suppliers, the Akeneo Onboarder, content syndication and AI-based curation of product content capabilities.[16][17]
Versions
Note that the names of CE releases are based on Bugs Bunny episodes, and EE releases on vegetals that have akenes.
| Release date | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition |
|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | 1.0.0-beta1 "A Wild Hare" | - |
| March 2014 | 1.0.0 "Hare we go" | - |
| April 2014 | 1.1.0 "Rabbit Punch" | - |
| August 2014 | 1.2.0 "Acrobatty Bunny" | 1.0.0 "Dandelion" |
| February 2015 | 1.3.0 "Hare Force" | 1.3.0 "Strawberry" |
| September 2015 | 1.4.0 "Rhapsody Rabbit" | 1.4.0 "Samara" |
| March 2016 | 1.5.0 "Fresh Hare" | 1.5.0 "Sunflower" |
| September 2016 | 1.6.0 "Wackiki Wabbit" | 1.6.0 "Tulip tree" |
| March 2017 | 1.7.0 "The Old Grey Hare" | 1.7.0 "Artichoke" |
| September 2017 | 2.0.0 "Rebel Rabbit" | 2.0.0 "Hazel" |
| January 2018 | 2.1.0 "Prest-O Change-O" | 2.1.0 "Walnut" |
| April 2018 | 2.2.0 "Bonanza Bunny" | 2.2.0 "Chestnut" |
| June 2018 | 2.3.0 "What’s up Doc?" | 2.3.0 "Lychee" |
| February 2019 | 3.0.0 "Super-Rabbit" | 3.0.0 "Rose" |
| April 2019 | 3.1.0 "Slick Hare" | 3.1.0 "Lettuce" |
| June 2019 | 3.2.0 "Rabbit Transit" | 3.2.0 "Edelweiss" |
| February 2020 | 4.0.0 "Hare Tonic" | 4.0.0 "Daisy" |
References
- ^ Maffei, Lucia (12 September 2020). "European software firm Akeneo to grow Boston headcount with $46M round". Boston Business Journal.
- ^ Marius, Stéphanie (6 February 2020). "La plateforme de gestion de l'expérience produit Akeneo lance sa nouvelle version". Ecommerce (in French).
- ^ Stoler, Tofi (18 January 2018). "France's Akeneo Acquires Israel-based E-Commerce Data Automation Startup Sigmento". Calcalist.
- ^ Sermondadaz, Sarah (21 September 2015). "Les 100 du digital retail : Akeneo, solution open-source de diffusion des catalogues produits". L'Usine Digitale (in French).
- ^ a b Dillet, Romain (12 September 2019). "Akeneo raises $46 million for its product information management service". TechCrunch.
- ^ "CrunchBase".
- ^ "Akeneo Raises $2.3 Million To Replace Excel For Catalog Management". 2014-09-23.
- ^ "Akeneo raises $2.4 Million for its Open Source Marketing Operations tool". 2014-09-30.
- ^ 2002-2016, PresseBox (c). "Tobias Schlotter wechselt zu Akeneo - Akeneo - Pressemitteilung". www.pressebox.de (in German). Retrieved 2016-02-15.
{{cite web}}:|last=has numeric name (help) - ^ "PLTJE 2016 : Nantes et sa région ont choisi leurs lauréats". La Tribune (in French). Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ^ "Open Source School : la première école spécialisée dans l'informatique open source". Programmez!. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ^ "SiliconRepublic".
- ^ "LeJournalDesEntreprises". Archived from the original on 2017-03-23.
- ^ "Times Of Israel".
- ^ Akeneo. "Product Information Management Provider Akeneo Secures Strategic Funding Amid Growing U.S. Expansion". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
- ^ "Agence Dn'D - Premier partenaire Gold d'Akeneo PIM | Agence DnD". Agence Dn'D. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ^ "StrikeTru Announces Market America | SHOP.COM goes Live with Akeneo Product Information Management (PIM) Solution to Speed up Product Releases on its eCommerce Websites". PRWeb. Retrieved 2016-01-05.