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Thursday, April 11 2019 - 10:00
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CleverTap Announces $26 Million Funding Led by Sequoia India with New Investment from Tiger Global Management to Drive Innovation in Customer Lifecycle Management Technology
SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2019 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

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Customer lifecycle management platform, CleverTap, today announced a $26 
million Series B funding round, led by Sequoia India with participation from 
new investor, Tiger Global Management, and existing investor Accel. The funds 
will be used to accelerate CleverTap's data science-driven product capabilities 
and scale to meet fast-growing demand for its customer lifecycle management 
platform. The new funding brings the company's valuation to more than $150 
million.

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CleverTap's platform enables businesses to deliver omnichannel experiences to 
millions of their customers in real time. Using CleverTap's proprietary big 
data and artificial intelligence engine, businesses can analyze billions of 
user actions, providing marketing and growth teams with immediate customer 
context at every stage of the customer journey. CleverTap's revenue has been 
growing at 250% year-over-year since 2015,  driving over $2 billion in 
incremental revenue for its customers. 

"Sequoia India is happy to lead this round of financing at one of the fastest 
growing SaaS start-ups," said Mohit Bhatnagar, Managing Director at Sequoia 
Capital India Advisors. "If you're a product manager and don't know what 
CleverTap does, you may miss that promotion you are after."

"Marketing technology is undergoing rapid transformation, and we believe 
CleverTap is well positioned to help consumer businesses drive materially 
higher customer lifetime values," said Scott Shleifer, Partner, Tiger Global.
 
"CleverTap is meeting the growth and retention needs of some of the fastest 
growing consumer apps such as GO-JEK, Fandango, Hotstar and Zilingo. Powered by 
the next generation of data science enabled capabilities, it's allowing 
companies to automate their marketing decisions - leading to better business 
outcomes. We're excited to bring our expertise to CleverTap to support them in 
this mission," said Prashanth Prakash, Partner at Accel.
 
"We're building CleverTap for the long term. The addition of Tiger Global to 
CleverTap's existing investors, Sequoia India, Accel and Recruit Holdings, is a 
tremendous endorsement of our innovation and success. At the core, we believe 
that every business will benefit from the investments we continue to make in 
our platform," said Sunil Thomas, CleverTap's CEO and Co-founder.

CleverTap recently opened it's APAC headquarters in Singapore, and has expanded 
its presence in the Americas and Europe to serve rapidly-scaling brands.

About CleverTap

CleverTap is a customer lifecycle management platform that helps brands deliver 
delightful customer experiences at scale. Over 8,000 companies ( 
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) around the world, including Vodafone, Star, Sony, Domino's Pizza, GO-JEK, 
Cleartrip and BookMyShow trust CleverTap to deliver personalized experiences 
and improve the impact of omnichannel marketing across the entire customer 
lifecycle. CleverTap is backed by leading venture capital firms including 
Sequoia India, Tiger Global Management, Accel and Recruit Holdings, and 
operates out of San Francisco, London, Singapore, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. For 
more information, visit clevertap.com or follow on LinkedIn ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2430175-1&h=239749286&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fclevertap%2F&a=LinkedIn 
) and Twitter ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2430175-1&h=1225302862&u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fclevertap&a=Twitter 
).
 
Press Contact
Ketan Pandit
PR for CleverTap
ketan@clevertap.com

Source - CleverTap
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