Anaplan

Anaplan is a planning software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Anaplan sells subscriptions for cloud-based business-planning software and provides data for decision-making purposes.[3][4]

Anaplan, Inc.
TypePublic
NYSE: PLAN
Russell 1000 Index component
IndustryEnterprise Performance Management, Software Company
Founded2006 in Yorkshire, England
FounderGuy Haddleton
Sue Haddleton
Michael Gould
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Number of locations
13 countries
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Frank Calderoni, Chief Executive Officer
  • Vikas Mehta, Chief Financial Officer
ProductsAnaplan Platform
Revenue $447.8 Million (fiscal year ended Jan 31st, 2021)[1]
Number of employees
2,200 (Dec 2021)[2]
Websitewww.anaplan.com

History

In 2006, Anaplan was founded by Guy Haddleton, Sue Haddleton, and Michael Gould in Yorkshire, England.[5]

In 2012 Anaplan brought on Frederic Laluyaux as CEO.[6] Laluyaux left the company in April 2016.[7]

In February 2013 Anaplan acquired its reseller Vue Analytics in U.K. for an undisclosed amount.[8] Anaplan closed its Series C funding in March 2013 with a $33M investment from Meritech, Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, Salesforce.com, and additional private investors.[9]

At its Hub 2014 conference in San Francisco, Anaplan announced that it has completed a Series D round of $100 million in financing, bringing total investment in the company to $150 million.[10]

Recent history

In May 2014, Anaplan introduced its marketplace, Anaplan Hub.[11] Using the marketplace, customers can share and find pre-designed planning models.[11] At the time the company had eleven offices in seven countries.[12] Another round of funding was announced in January 2016, amounting to $90 million, along with confirmation of Anaplan's status as a tech "unicorn," with a valuation of over $1 billion.[13][14][15] CEO Laluyaux announced that it would be the last private round of funding prior to an IPO in the “not-too-distant future”.[16] To assist with going public, the company hired James Budge as its Chief Financial Officer.[13] At the time, Anaplan had over 480 customers in 20 countries.[13][17]

In January 2017 Anaplan appointed Frank A. Calderoni as CEO.[18] Calderoni took the company public on October 12, 2018, with Anaplan being listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol PLAN.

In August 2019, Anaplan announced plans to acquire Mintigo, an Israeli-founded predictive marketing and sales analytics company.[19] In November, the company was named to Deloitte Technology Fast 500.[20]


Funding

Anaplan raised its first venture capital funding within a year of its first sales in 2010.[21] In 2012, the company raised $11.4 million in Series B financing from investors that included Granite Ventures and Shasta Ventures.[22]

Then, In 2014, the company’s Series D funding raised $100 million from news and existing investors including DFJ Growth, Workday, and Shasta Ventures.[23] In 2016, Anaplan raised $90 million and became the second UK-founded company to achieve a $1 billion valuation.[24]

Premji Invest led the fundraising, and was joined by Baillie Gifford, Founders Circle Capital, Harmony Partners, and Anaplan’s then-current investors.[24] As of January 2016, Anaplan had raised a total of $240 million in five funding rounds.[24]

Technology

Anaplan's Hyperblock architecture is a hybrid of relational, vertical, and OLAP databases with an in-memory data store multi-threaded calculation engine.[25]

In November 2014 Anaplan announced the launch of the Anaplan App Hub, a community for Anaplan users to build, share, and deploy planning apps.[26]

References
  1. "Anaplan Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results".
  2. "Anaplan: Number of Employees 2017-2021 | PLAN".
  3. DeFrancesco, Robert. "Anaplan A Growing Threat As It Shakes Up Business Planning". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  4. Chin, Maureen Farrell and Kimberly (12 October 2018). "Anaplan Shares Surge 43% in Debut, Shrugging Off Market Turmoil". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  5. "FSN interviews Guy Haddleton, CEO Anaplan". fsn.co.uk. FSN Publishing Limited. 2011-03-14. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
  6. Basich, Zoran (12 September 2012). "The Daily Start-Up: Aerohive Buzzes With $22.5M Led by IVP Amid Sweet Mobile Connectivity Demand". Wall Street Journal.
  7. "FSN ~ BI, BPM & CPM ~ FSN Interviews Frederic Laluyaux, CEO Anaplan". Archived from the original on 2013-11-06. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  8. Nusca, Andrew. "Anaplan acquires reseller Vue Analytics; taps SAP Europe vet – ZDNet".
  9. Rao, Leena. "Business Data Modeling And Planning Software Company Anaplan Raises $33M From Meritech, Shasta And Others".
  10. "Anaplan Raises $100 Million in Series D Financing".
  11. "Anaplan Rakes in $100M In Series D Funding And Announces Anaplan Hub". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  12. "Anaplan opens York office in search of engineering talent". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  13. Miller, Ron (2016-01-14). "With $90 Million In New Funding And Unicorn Status, Anaplan Looks Ahead to IPO". techcrunch.com. TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
  14. "Anaplan Valued at $1.1 Billion After $90 Million Pre-IPO Round". 14 January 2016 – via www.bloomberg.com.
  15. Gage, Deborah (14 January 2016). "Anaplan Achieves $1.09 Billion Valuation With New Round". Wall Street Journal.
  16. "With $90 Million In New Funding And Unicorn Status, Anaplan Looks Ahead to IPO". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  17. Henschen, Doug. "Anaplan scales platform, prepares for prediction, addresses CEO departure". ZDNet. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  18. "Anaplan hires CEO ahead of U.S. software firm's 2017 IPO". Reuters. 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2017-02-09.
  19. Research, Forrester. "Anaplan doubles down on predictive with Mintigo acquisition". ZDNet. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
  20. Releases, Business Wire News (2019-11-07). "Anaplan Ranked Among Fastest Growing Companies on Deloitte's 2019 Technology Fast 500™ | Financial Post". Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  21. "Michael Gould, From Anaplan". FT. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  22. "Anaplan Closes on $11.4M". pehub.com. PE Hub Network. 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
  23. "Anaplan Rakes in $100M In Series D Funding And Announces Anaplan Hub". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  24. "Anaplan becomes UK's latest tech unicorn". FT. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  25. "Taylor Wimpey builds cloud forecasting process with Anaplan".
  26. Miller, Ron. "Anaplan App Hub Wants To Bring Open-Source Sharing Ethos to Financial Planners".
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