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Optimizely (YC W10) — The first all-in-one operating system for marketing

At Optimizely, we're on a mission to help people unlock their digital potential. We do that by reinventing how marketing and product teams work to create and optimize digital experiences across all channels.

Optimizely is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2010 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: The first all-in-one operating system for marketing. The founder listed is Pete Koomen (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 17, 2012).

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Optimizely

New accelerator entry · 2012-01-17 · the record

Winter 2010
batch
1500
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchWinter 2010
Announced2012-01-17
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size1500
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
SectorsMarketing
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttp://optimizely.com

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At Optimizely, we're on a mission to help people unlock their digital potential. We do that by reinventing how marketing and product teams work to create and optimize digital experiences across all channels. With Optimizely One, our industry-first operating system for marketers, we offer teams flexibility and choice to build their stack their way with our fully SaaS, fully decoupled, and highly composable solution. We help companies around the world orchestrate their entire content lifecycle, monetize every digital experience and experiment across all customer touchpoints – all through Optimizely One, the leading digital experience platform that powers every phase of the marketing lifecycle through a single, AI-accelerated workflow. Optimizely has nearly 1500 employees across our 21 global offices and has 700+ partners. We are proud to help more than 10,000 businesses, including H&M, PayPal, Zoom, and Toyota, enrich their customer lifetime value, increase revenue and grow their brands. At Optimizely, we live each day with a simple philosophy: large enough to serve, small enough to care. Learn more at optimizely.com.

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