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Pulse is a startup building a crowdsourced knowledge marketplace for C-Suite Technology executives and the vendors that work with them. With nearly 15,000 C-Suite execs already on the Pulse platform and hundreds being added on a daily basis, Pulse is set to change how B2B decisions are made.

Pulse is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2018 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: We're crowdsourced Gartner so IT executives can learn directly from… (Y Combinator directory entry, November 1, 2017).

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Pulse

New accelerator entry · 2017-11-01 · the record

Winter 2018
batch
11
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2018
Announced2017-11-01
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size11
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Productivity
SectorsMarketplace, Enterprise
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.pulse.qa
Previously known asPulse Q&A

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Pulse is a startup building a crowdsourced knowledge marketplace for C-Suite Technology executives and the vendors that work with them. With nearly 15,000 C-Suite execs already on the Pulse platform and hundreds being added on a daily basis, Pulse is set to change how B2B decisions are made. Companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, Okta and Dialpad already rely on Pulse to turbocharge their strategy, content and marketing teams on a daily basis and as we build out our products, we are excited about what the future holds.

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