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| Company type | Public |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Founders |
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| Headquarters | Bellevue, Washington, U.S. |
Key people |
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| Products | Smartsheet |
| Revenue |  US$958 million (2024) |
 US$−120 million (2024) | |
| US$−105 million (2024) | |
| Total assets | US$1.34 billion (2024) |
| Total equity | US$606 million (2024) |
Number of employees | 3,330 (2024) |
| Website | smartsheet |
| Footnotes / references Financials as of January 31, 2024[update].[1] | |
Smartsheet Inc. is an American publicly listed company that develops and markets the Smartsheet application. As of 2023, it had over 3,000 employees, and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.[2] The company was founded in the summer of 2005, shortly after co-founder Brent Frei sold his prior company, Onyx Software.[3][4][5] Initially it was funded mostly by Frei.[3] About a year after its founding, Smartsheet had raised $4 million in funding and had just nine employees.[4] By early 2012 it had raised $8.2 million in funding over three rounds and hired its first salesperson.[6][7]
After the Smartsheet software was redesigned in 2010, the company's revenues grew by more than 100 percent each year, for four consecutive years.[8] It raised $26 million in funding in December 2012[9][7] and another $35 million in May 2014.[6] In 2017, the company raised an additional $52.1 million in funding.[10] In 2018, it was announced that Smartsheet acquired Converse.AI, a Scotland-based company that develops software for creating business automation bots.[11]
The company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on April 27, 2018.[12] In May 2019, Smartsheet announced it had acquired 10,000 ft, a SaaS platform that provides real-time resource and capacity planning.[13]
In September 2024, Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone announced their intent to buy Smartsheet for $8.4 billion in cash, at $56.50 per share.[14]
- ^ "Smartsheet Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 20, 2024.
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- ^ a b Romano, Benjamin (May 5, 2014). "Smartsheet Wins Big Customers, $35M From Sutter Hill Ventures". Xconomy. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ^ a b "Smartsheet Grabs $26M After 'De-Enterprising' its Collaboration Software". WSJ. December 3, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ^ "100 Best Companies to Work For 2014: Midsize Companies – Washington and Puget Sound Business News Source". Seattle Business Magazine. July 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ^ Grant, Rebecca (December 3, 2012). "Smartsheet gets $26M to keep enterprise workflow under control". VentureBeat. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ^ "Work management startup Smartsheet raises $52.1 million, claims a $852 valuation". VentureBeat. May 24, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ^ "Smartsheet acquires business automation chatbot startup Converse.AI | VentureBeat". venturebeat.com. 16 January 2018.
- ^ Novet, Jordan (27 April 2018). "Software company Smartsheet spikes in IPO". CNBC. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ "Bellevue's Smartsheet Acquires Seattle Tech Company 10,000ft". Seattle Business Magazine. 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ^ Chapman, Michelle (2024-09-24). "Vista, Blackstone buying software maker Smartsheet for about $8.4 billion". Associated Press.