WorkBoard Raises $75 Million Series D as Companies Across Industries Adopt OKRs and Accelerate Their Operating Rhythm
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
-- SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the funding with existing investors, a16z, GGV,
Workday Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
WorkBoard, the Enterprise Results and OKR Platform, announced today that it has
raised an additional $75 million in growth funding. SoftBank Vision Fund 2* led
the round, and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, GGV Capital, Workday
Ventures, and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund participated alongside new
investors Capital One Ventures and SVB Capital. WorkBoard will invest the funds
in platform development, customer community, and expansion of its sales and
marketing efforts.
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To take advantage of an expanding economy and pervasive changes in the way
customers buy and people work, companies must raise their agility and velocity.
According to PwC, before the pandemic 40% of executives felt "highly agile" in
flexibly making changes but that number plummeted to 18% as that agility was
tested over the past 12 months. With the Federal Reserve projecting the fastest
GDP growth in more than 35 years at 6.5%, companies across sectors are adopting
OKRs and accelerating their operating rhythm to keep pace with market change.
The fastest and largest tech organizations including Cisco, IBM, and Microsoft,
and a growing number of financial institutions, manufacturers, life science,
and healthcare companies have adopted WorkBoard and OKRs to accelerate their
business and growth.
"Today organizations globally need a faster, more agile approach to drive their
strategies and operating rhythms. We believe WorkBoard's leading platform helps
organizations to define, align and manage strategic outcomes more efficiently,"
said Nagraj Kashyap, Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. "As an
avid user of WorkBoard, I led its Series A funding while previously at M12, and
am delighted to continue our partnership with Deidre and the WorkBoard team to
fuel their next stage of growth."
"As more companies commit to a future of fully-remote or hybrid work, OKRs and
transparent results management are essential to keeping distributed teams
aligned," said Matthew Goldstein, Managing Director at M12. "WorkBoard is
driving incredible value to shared customers through integrations with
technologies like Microsoft Teams, and several groups at Microsoft-including
M12-are using WorkBoard to accelerate operating rhythms."
"Now every industry needs to be fast, agile, and responsive to shifts in the
market. The ability to rapidly adjust strategic priorities, align and mobilize
is quickly becoming table stakes for growth," says Deidre Paknad, WorkBoard CEO
and Co-Founder. "WorkBoard increases strategic agility and operating rhythm 4x
while creating pervasive transparency. I'm excited to work with Nagraj again
and invest aggressively in deeper customer relationships, platform advantage
and faster growth."
About WorkBoard
WorkBoard's Enterprise Results Platform and results advisory services unlock
growth and competitive advantage for customers through high alignment, strong
focus, and transparency using OKRs. Since its general release in 2014,
WorkBoard's Results Platform and Outcome Mindset Methodology have earned the
trust of hundreds of organizations at large enterprises and high growth
companies such as AstraZeneca, Microsoft, Cisco, Workday, IBM, 3M, VMware,
Juniper, Zuora, LexisNexis, Malwarebytes, and more. It pioneered OKR coaching
with the first of its kind professional development curriculum that has now
certified over 7,000 OKR Coaches in the Outcome Mindset Method(TM) since 2018.
WorkBoard is based in Redwood City, Calif. Investors include Softbank Vision
Fund 2, Andreessen Horowitz, GGV Capital, Workday Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's
Venture Fund, Capital One Ventures, and SVB Capital.
Workboard's upcoming conference, Accelerate Spring '21 (
), showcases Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author of Crossing the Chasm and Zone
to Win, and executives from Cisco, Microsoft, Avalara, EXL Healthcare, Praxis,
VMware, Iterable, and Zuora. They will discuss how they drive bold visions for
a more digital future, raise agility and velocity, and energize teams to
achieve their best possible. The virtual conference will be held May 24-27,
2021.
Resources
-- WorkBoard: www.WorkBoard.com
-- Twitter: @WorkBoardInc
-- LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/company/WorkBoard
-- Workboard is hiring: www.WorkBoard.com/careers
*As of the date of this press release, SoftBank Group Corp. has made capital
contributions to allow investments by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 ("SVF 2") in
certain portfolio companies. The information included herein is made for
informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a
solicitation of an offer to buy limited partnership interests in any fund,
including SVF 2. SVF 2 has yet to have an external close, and any potential
third-party investors shall receive additional information related to any SVF 2
investments prior to closing.
SOURCE: WorkBoard
CONTACT: workboard@hunt-gather.com
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