SurveyMonkey, the online survey platform, raised $250 million in equity financing, making the company worth close to $2 billion. The funding will help the company pursue future acquisition purchases and allow existing investors and employees to cash out some of their existing equity, the company said.
Qualtrics, the company that makes sophisticated research simple, announced a couple of days ago that it has partnered with Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital in the two firms’ largest-ever joint investment. Accel and Sequoia will provide a range of services and $70 million to help Qualtrics expand its SaaS product offerings beyond market research and […]
SurveyMonkey is without any doubt the biggest online survey software platform. It is used by millions of individuals and companies. Until 2009, SurveyMonkey was operated by a handful of people. We have covered the acquisition of SurveyMonkey by an investor group led by Spectrum Equity Investors. Since then, SurveyMonkey acquired a number of smaller businesses. […]
Many times we’ve asked ourselves during the last couple of years what happens with QuestionPro. We have covered QuestionPro in the past and realized that it’s one of the top survey software providers on the internet, but in the last couple of years, the design changes done on their presentation site were little and badly […]
Last week, SurveyPirate announced the decommission of their services. SurveyPirate was a free survey software platform in business since 2008. They advertized as “the world’s most user friendly tool. And it is totally free!”. I guess that this “completely free” business model does not work anymore in the current economy.