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Segment (YC S11) — Software and APIs to collect, clean, and control customer data

Segment is one place to collect customer data and send it to your tools for analytics, marketing automation, and raw data access with SQL. Implement all of your event tracking with Segment’s single API instead of wrangling a new API for every new tool or database.

Segment is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2011 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Software and APIs to collect, clean, and control customer data. The founder listed is Ilya Volodarsky (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 17, 2012).

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Segment

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

Summer 2011
batch
550
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2011
Announced2012-01-17
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size550
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Analytics
SectorsSaaS, B2B
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttp://segment.com

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Segment is one place to collect customer data and send it to your tools for analytics, marketing automation, and raw data access with SQL. Implement all of your event tracking with Segment’s single API instead of wrangling a new API for every new tool or database. Segment's integrations let you send your data to hundreds of tools and databases.

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