Connectbeam

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Connectbeam
Company type Private
Industry Enterprise social software
FoundedDecember 2005
Headquarters Mountain View, California
Key people
Puneet Gupta
Sanjeev Sisodiya
Products Social network
Social bookmarking
Website Connectbeam.com

Connectbeam, a company based in Mountain View, California, provided enterprise social software. The company provided two core services: social bookmarking and aggregation of links and metadata for content from other social software applications. The company's stated goal was to establish the enterprise social network by integrating employees' user-generated content.[ citation needed ]

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Connectbeam was founded by Puneet Gupta [1] in December 2005. Gabriel Venture Partners lead a Series A round of $3.5 million for the company in July 2007. [2] Connectbeam sells into the global enterprise market, and has been recognized for innovation by Gartner, [3] InformationWeek, [4] eContent [5] and KMWorld. [6]

In July 2011, the Connectbeam website was removed. [7] [8] [ clarification needed ]

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References

  1. Connectbeam | Management Team
  2. Connectbeam Lands $3.5 Million Series A
  3. Connectbeam Recognized as 'Cool Vendor' in 2007 Gartner Report
  4. Five Enterprise 2.0 Startups to Watch
  5. 2008-2009 EContent 100 List
  6. KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2008
  7. "Connectbeam May be Disconnected". 29 July 2011.
  8. Corfield, Gareth. "Cisco to face trial over Leadfactors IP theft claim". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2023-09-04.