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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Founders | Joe Gustafson |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Greg Flynn, President and CEO Joe Gustafson, Founder & Chairman |
| Website | www.brainshark.com |
Brainshark was a privately held technology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts that provided a sales enablement platform and product suite. Bigtincan acquired Brainshark in August 2021.
Brainshark provided Web-based applications and products, delivered via software as a service (SaaS), to help companies improve sales effectiveness and productivity. The company offered a sales enablement platform and product suite. [1]
The company's core product was Brainshark, a sales enablement platform that helped organizations create content used for sales training, onboarding, and coaching. [2]
Brainshark launched its coaching platform in February 2016 [3]
In October 2011, Brainshark released SlideShark, [4] a mobile app for the Apple iPad [5] and Apple iPhone [6] that lets users properly display PowerPoint presentations on iOS devices. [7] [8] [9] [10]
Brainshark (often stylized as BRAINSHARK) was used in a wide range of industries, including insurance, [11] healthcare, [12] financial services, [13] technology, [14] non-profit, [15] and others for training, [16] sales and marketing, [17] channel, [18] and corporate communications. [12]
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only. Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for about $14 million three months after it appeared. This was Microsoft's first significant acquisition, and Microsoft set up a new business unit for PowerPoint in Silicon Valley where Forethought had been located.
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