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Yammer

Yammer is an enterprise social network that enables employees to collaborate across departments, geographies and business applications.

North America, United States TechCrunch50 -2008 2008 Winner

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Founded Date

2008

Industries
Social Networking and Collaboration Web Education, Recruitment and Job
Operating Status

Acquired

Website

www.yammer.com

Founders

Adam Pisoni Founder

News About Yammer

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Enterprise

Microsoft ditches Yammer brand and goes all-in on Viva Engage

Paul Sawers

Microsoft has confirmed that it’s finally killing off Yammer, the enterprise social network it procured more than a decade ago for $1.2 billion. Yammer was initially created out of San Francisco back in 2008, with co-founder David Sacks formally launching the startup at a TechCrunch startup event. The company went on to raise north of […]

Enterprise

Microsoft launches Viva, its new take on the old intranet

Frederic Lardinois

Microsoft today launched Viva, a new “employee experience platform,” or, in non-marketing terms, its new take on the intranet sites most large companies tend to offer their employees. This includes standard features like access to internal communications built on integrations with SharePoint, Yammer and other Microsoft tools. In addition, Viva also offers access to team […]

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Enterprise

Mode raises $33M to supercharge its analytics platform for data scientists

Ingrid Lunden

Data science is the name of the game these days for companies that want to improve their decision making by tapping the information they are already amassing in their apps and other systems. And today, a startup called Mode Analytics, which has built a platform incorporating machine learning, business intelligence and big data analytics to […]

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Enterprise

Emergence’s Jason Green thinks some of the tech backlash is justified, but the B2B opportunities still outweigh the challenges

Ingrid Lunden

Jason Green, co-founder and partner at Emergence, is one of the leading VCs investing in enterprise startups at the moment. But even with the focus on B2B, many of their companies have become household names — Zoom, Yammer, Box and Salesforce among them. Now, we’re all living in a climate where everything has been turned […]

TC

Ade Ajao, Maryanna Saenko, Charles Hudson, Ulili Onovakpuri and Melissa Bradley are coming to Disrupt

Connie Loizos

At TechCrunch Disrupt, our Startup Battlefield event is the centerpiece of the event, the true heart of this signature program. There’s good reason we take it so seriously. Over the years, the Startup Battlefield competition has helped launch dozens of nascent startups that have grown into game-changing brands, including Cloudflare, Dropbox, Vurb, Mint, GetAround, Fitbit, […]

Startups

72 hours left to apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2020

Neesha A. Tambe

Get featured in front of the largest TechCrunch Disrupt audience in history. The opportunity clock is ticking, and you have just 72 hours left for a chance to compete head-to-head against top startups from around the world at Disrupt 2020. Beat the deadline — apply to compete in Startup Battlefield before June 19 at 11:59 […]

Enterprise

And that’s really it for Google+

Frederic Lardinois

Last year, Google launched the beta of Currents, which was essentially a rebrand of Google+ for G Suite users, since Google+ for consumers went to meet its maker in April 2019. While Google+ was meant to be an all-purpose social network, the idea behind Currents is more akin to what Microsoft is doing with Yammer […]

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Startups

Compete in Startup Battlefield and Launch at Disrupt SF 2020

Neesha A. Tambe

Early-stage founders: Don’t miss your chance to follow in the footsteps of tech giants. We know COVID-19 has created challenges for startup founders, but fear not. Disrupt SF is still proceeding as scheduled, with a Disrupt Digital Pass Virtual option. Launch your startup in the world’s most famous pitch competition, Startup Battlefield. The smackdown goes […]

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Venture

Eaze and Wayv founder explains how to raise money for cannabis startups

Matt Burns

Keith McCarty could have retired after Microsoft bought Yammer. Instead, he founded Eaze to address cannabis delivery. He lead the company through its B round and then stepped back, but last year, he founded Wayv, a new cannabis startup to address an even more significant challenge for the industry: supply chain logistics. So far, it’s […]

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Enterprise

Microsoft Teams gets Yammer integration, secure private channels and more

Frederic Lardinois

You’re forgiven if you thought Yammer — Microsoft’s proto-Slack, not quite real-time chat application — was dead. It’s actually still alive (and well) — and still serves a purpose as a slower-moving social network-like channel for company and team-wide announcements. Today, Microsoft announced that, among other updates, it will offer a Yammer integration in Teams, […]

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Enterprise

Someone could scoop up Slack before it IPOs

Ron Miller

Earlier this week, Slack announced that it has filed the paperwork to go public at some point later this year. The big question is, will the company exit into the public markets as expected, or will one of the technology giants swoop in at the last minute with buckets of cash and take them off […]

TC

Startup Battlefield application deadline extended by one week

Samantha Stein

Here’s a heartfelt gift for all you procrastinating early-stage startup founders who haven’t gotten your act together to apply to compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt San Francisco 2018 on September 5-7. You’re strapped for time, we get it. So, we’re extending the application deadline by one week. You now have until June 13 — […]

Media & Entertainment

Yammer co-founder Adam Pisoni just raised $7.5 million in Series A funding for his new company, Abl

Connie Loizos

Abl Schools, a nearly two-year-old, San Francisco-based company that makes time and resource management software for middle schools and high schools, has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. Abl was founded by CEO Adam Pisoni, himself a high school dropout who formerly co-founded and served as CTO of the enterprise messaging company Yammer.

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Enterprise

Software is due for a bundling event

David Riggs

We are approaching a new phase of enterprise software, where every niche of Software-as-a-Service has been filled and cloud companies are being consolidated into larger companies. Markets have a tendency to cycle from bundling to unbundling, and software is due for a bundling event.

Enterprise

Business process platform Progressly nabs Ruslan Belkin and announces $6M Series A from 8VC

John Mannes

Progressly, a new platform for supporting growth within large enterprises, just got a big boost in both money and staffing. Ruslan Belkin, a former top exec from Twitter and LinkedIn will be joining the roughly two year old company. With the spotlight drawn, Progressly is taking the opportunity to formally announce a $6 million Series A, led by […]

Enterprise

The suddenly exciting future of enterprise communications

Henry Pickavet

Enterprise communications is not a sector that typically generates palpable excitement. In the enterprise, the plumbing is never as exciting as the fixtures, and people spend more time noticing what communications enables than how it’s delivered. It doesn’t help that enterprise communications is often dismissed as slow to innovate, given its high capital costs to deploy new infrastructure and natural monopolies.

Enterprise

Microsoft Turns On Yammer For Office 365 Business Customers

Sarah Perez

Get ready for Yammer, Microsoft announced today - and it's not kidding. Microsoft said this afternoon it will begin to activate Yammer for all its eligible Office 365 business customers starting today, in what's a major push for the enterprise social networking service. The rollout will come in waves, beginning with those customers who have a business subscription, and fewer than 150 licenses, including one for Yammer.

Media & Entertainment

How Facebook At Work Could Shrink Faceless Enterprises

Josh Constine

When you have a question at a small company, you always know who to ask. But as corporations grow, it becomes impossible to remember everyone's names, let alone their areas of expertise, and communication channels flood with noise. Facebook At Work, the company's new enterprise collaboration suite, could change that.

TC

Yammer’s David Sacks Departs Microsoft After Two-Year Tenure

Alex Wilhelm

Today Yammer’s founder and former CEO David Sacks announced that he will depart Microsoft, the software company that purchased his social enterprise startup for $1.2 billion. His exit, which comes two years after the June 2012 acquisition of Yammer, follows standard timing. When companies are purchased, existing employees are often given two-year contracts, sometimes with earnouts […]

Enterprise

Microsoft Brings Yammer To More Office 365 Plans For Free

Alex Wilhelm

Microsoft is bringing Yammer to more of its Office 365 SKUs, making the latter a more tempting offer. Educational and medium-business packages of Office 365 now come with Yammer. Microsoft added the social product to enterprise Office 365 SKUs late last year.

Enterprise

‘WhatsApp For The Workplace’ App Cotap Adds Analytics, Security And Alerts As Its First Paid Services

Ingrid Lunden

Cotap, an enterprise messaging startup founded by ex-Yammer execs, launched last year with ambitions to be the "WhatsApp for the workplace" -- a free app that was as ubiquitous as the popular messaging service bought by Facebook in February for $19 billion, used not just by "road warrior" white collar workers as an extension of their desktop but all employees to keep in touch. Today, Cotap is turning on new paid, premium services as the next chapter in the growth of its business: analytics, security features and a new mobile alert system.

Enterprise

Zula, The Mobile Collaboration App From VoIP Pioneer Jeff Pulver, Gets A Seed Round From Microsoft Ventures

Ingrid Lunden

Microsoft took a big step into enterprise collaboration when it acquired Yammer, and an equally big step into VoIP when it bought Skype. Now it's taking an investment in Zula, a new startup that is offering a solution for how those two kinds of services might potentially work together. The Israel-based mobile collaboration app co-founded by Jeff Pulver, one of the original people behind Vonage and VoIP, is today announcing a seed round from Microsoft Ventures.

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