Customer Service Platform Zendesk Signs Up Evernote As Its 25,000th Business

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Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
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Zendesk says that it closed out 2012 by crossing the 25,000-customer milestone. It’s a big-name company, too — note-taking app Evernote announced that it will be using Zendesk to deliver customer service.

“When we develop Evernote, we strive for ease-of-use, scalability and availability across multiple platforms,” said Vice President of Customer Satisfaction Philip Dean in a press release. “We expect the same from our customer service provider, and we found that in Zendesk.”

Back in June, Zendesk announced that it hit the 20,000-customer mark, so the company has added another 5,000 in the past six months. It sounds like Zendesk is growing at a pretty steady pace (it also took about six months to get from 15,000 to 20,000 customers), but it’s come a long way since it was launched in 2008. It took about two-and-a-half years to get its first 5,000 customers.

CEO Mikkel Svane said that through those businesses, Zendesk is delivering customer service to 100 million consumers in more than 140 countries. The company also recently raised a $60 million round led by Redpoint Ventures, with plans (but no definite timeline) for an IPO.


Company: Evernote
Website: evernote.com
Launch Date: 2004
Funding: $251M

Evernote allows users to capture, organize, and find information across multiple platforms. Users can take notes, clip webpages, snap photos using their mobile phones, create to-dos, and record audio. All data is synchronized with the Evernote web service and made available to clients on Windows, Mac, Web, and mobile devices. Additionally, the Evernote web service performs image recognition on all incoming notes, making printed or handwritten text found within images searchable.

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