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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Enterprise social software |
Founded | December 2005 |
Headquarters | Mountain View, California |
Key people | Puneet Gupta Sanjeev Sisodiya |
Products | Social network Social bookmarking |
Website | Connectbeam.com |
Connectbeam, a company based in Mountain View, California, provided enterprise social software. The company provided two core services: social bookmarking and aggregation of links and metadata for content from other social software applications. The company's stated goal was to establish the enterprise social network by integrating employees' user-generated content.[citation needed]
Connectbeam was founded by Puneet Gupta [1] in December 2005. Gabriel Venture Partners lead a Series A round of $3.5 million for the company in July 2007.[2] Connectbeam sells into the global enterprise market, and has been recognized for innovation by Gartner,[3] InformationWeek,[4] eContent[5] and KMWorld.[6]
In July 2011, the Connectbeam website was removed.[7][8][clarification needed]