Capillary Technologies

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Capillary Technologies
Company type Privately Held
Industry
  • Marketing technology
  • Loyalty marketing
Founded Bangalore, India (August 2008 (2008-08)) [1]
Headquarters
Singapore
Number of locations
14 Offices [2]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Aneesh Reddy (CEO)
Anant Choubey (COO)
Rohan Mahadar (CPO)
Piyush Kumar (CTO)
ProductsIntelligent Loyalty Platform
Brands
  • Capillary
  • Brierley
RevenueIncrease2.svg₹164.2 crore (US$20 million) (FY22) [3]
Decrease2.svg₹−22.2 crore (US$−2.7 million) (FY22) [3]
Number of employees
400 (2023) [2]
Subsidiaries Capillary Technologies India Private Limited (India); Capillary Solutions FZ-LLC (Dubai); Capillary Technologies Singapore PTE. LTD; Brierley+Partners
Website capillarytech.com
brierley.com

Capillary Technologies is an international SaaS technology company. Capillary's primary product is its cloud-based customer loyalty/customer engagement and e-commerce platform, Intelligent Loyalty. Capillary also offers loyalty and other marketing consulting services.

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Capillary Technologies was founded in Bangalore in 2008. Today, Capillary is headquartered in Singapore and operates in several countries.

History

Capillary Technologies was founded in August 2008 by Aneesh Reddy, [4] Krishna Mehra, and Ajay Modani and initially headquartered in Bangalore, India. [5] [1] [6] Reddy, Mehra, and Modani were each alumnus at ITC Limited, Microsoft Research, and Danieli, respectively. [1]

In 2013, Capillary Technologies was used as a case study for "reverse innovation" published in Harvard Business Review. [7]

In December 2016, Rajan Anandan, who at the time was Google's Vice President for Southeast Asia and India, joined Capillary's Board of Directors. [8] [9]

Co-founder Aneesh Reddy operated as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Capillary Technologies until 2022. [10] In September 2022, Capillary Technologies announced that Sameer Garde would take over as the company's CEO and Reddy would transition to managing director. [11] Garde resigned as CEO in March 2024 "due to personal reasons," and Reddy returned to the company's role as CEO. [12]

Expansion

Capillary Technologies operated primarily in India and in new or emerging markets in less-developed countries. In 2011, Capillary began looking toward established markets in more developed nations. [7]

International growth

The company began expanding operations into China in July 2016 [13] and, in September 2019, Capillary partnered with Veda Holding, a Saudi investment holding company, to expand to Saudi Arabia. [14] To operate in the country, Capillary formed a Saudi-specific entity called Capillary Arabia. [14] [15] [16]

United States and Europe

Capillary Technologies began expanding into the U.S. and European markets in 2021. That same year, Capillary acquired Persuade, a U.S. loyalty platform provider. In March 2023, Capillary Technologies and Texas-based Sabre Corporation announced they had signed an agreement to integrate the Capillary loyalty management solution into its airline and hotel platforms. [17] [18]

This announcement was followed by multiple acquisitions. In April 2023, Capillary acquired Brierley+Partners, a U.S. loyalty agency and loyalty program platform provider, [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] and in June 2023, Capillary announced it had acquired the Digital Connect technology assets of Tenerity, a US-based engagement and rewards platform provider. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]

In May 2023, following Capillary's acquisition of Brierley and shortly before the acquisition of Tenerity's Digital Connect assets, Capillary Technologies raised an additional $45 million in funds. [30] According to Capillary, this new round of funding will primarily help Capillary's plans to grow and expand further in North America and Europe. [31] [32] [33]

Funding

Capillary Technologies has raised multiple rounds of funding from investors since its inception.

Acquisitions

Capillary acquired the e-commerce software platform MartJack in September 2015, supported by a $45 million funding led by Warburg Pincus. [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] In October 2016, Capillary acquired SellerWorx, another e-commerce services and technology company. [57]

In September 2021, Capillary Technologies acquired Persuade, a US-based loyalty firm. [58] In April 2023, Capillary acquired Brierley+Partners (known generally as Brierley), a loyalty agency and platform provider based in Frisco, Texas. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] Then, in June 2023, Capillary acquired the technology assets of Tenerity, a US-based rewards and engagement platform provider. [25] [26] [27]

Intelligent Loyalty Platform

Capillary Technologies' primary product is its cloud-based SaaS platform Intelligent Loyalty. [59] The Intelligent Loyalty platform includes modules with features for loyalty programs, customer engagement, data analytics, etc. [25] [26]

Product development

As of 2020, Capillary Technologies used GitHub as the core for the end-to-end CI/CD architecture of the company's platform. [60]

In 2023, Capillary launched AskAira, an AI-powered research assistant, as part of its loyalty platform. AskAira utilizes OpenAI's generative AI language models. [61] [62]

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