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Whatfix Raises $32 Million in Series C Funding to Empower Enterprises to Drive Digital Adoption and Prepare for the Future of Work
SAN JOSE, California, Feb. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

-- Led by new investor Sequoia Capital India, and with participation from 
existing investors, Whatfix joins the family of tier-one B2B enterprise SaaS 
leaders funded by premier VC firms 

Whatfix ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2724235-1&h=2700771855&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatfix.com%2F&a=Whatfix 
), the leader in Digital Adoption Solutions ("DAS"), today announced it has 
secured $32 million in Series C funding. Sequoia Capital India ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2724235-1&h=1098393931&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sequoiacap.com%2Findia%2F&a=Sequoia+Capital+India 
) led the round, with participation from existing investors Eight Roads 
Ventures-a global proprietary investment firm backed by Fidelity, F-Prime 
Capital, and Cisco Investments. Whatfix plans to use the latest cash infusion 
to drive product development and to address the growing demands for DAS by 
accelerating the company's expansion into markets such as Europe and Australia. 

Founded in 2014, Whatfix's Digital Adoption Platform ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2724235-1&h=2448246024&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatfix.com%2Fdigital-adoption-platform%2F&a=Whatfix%27s+Digital+Adoption+Platform 
) ("DAP") was created to help enterprises drive digital adoption, realize user 
productivity, and elevate user experience across enterprise applications. With 
this latest round of funding, Whatfix plans to further invest in product 
innovation with enhanced functionalities that unify the employee experience and 
digital journey across desktop, mobile and web applications; simplify 
enterprise-wide search across fragmented content repositories; and increase 
user productivity via workflow automation, personalization and BOT based data 
entry.

Enterprises spend billions of dollars on various enterprise applications and 
employee training, yet industry research shows that 85 percent of business 
executives ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2724235-1&h=2662747878&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwhich-50.com%2Fhow-the-as-a-service-movement-is-improving-user-satisfaction-and-adoption-of-enterprise-software%2F&a=85+percent+of+business+executives 
) are challenged with user adoption of new technologies. While a typical 
enterprise uses over 300 cloud applications ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2724235-1&h=1071673689&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2Fcloud-apps-just-how-many-does-your-firm-use-now-guess-again%2F&a=300+cloud+applications 
), not all of them are used to their full potential, further proving that DAS 
is pertinent to the success of an enterprise's digital transformation 
initiatives and the transforming landscape of the workplace. 

"As the future of work evolves, enterprises must invest in Digital Adoption now 
to prepare for the next wave in the digital workplace. Mainstream employees and 
alternative workforce will need to be digitally savvy, stay focused on key 
digital activities, use BOTs to enter data and perform routine tasks, re-skill 
themselves by self-learning in the flow of work, and be comfortable acting on 
hyper-personalized guidance," said Khadim Batti, CEO and Co-Founder at Whatfix. 
"Personalized in-app guidance, automation and quick discovery will help 
enterprises and their workers be more productive and reduce cognitive 
overload," added Batti.

"This latest funding will help us to expand our product offerings globally and 
continue to help enterprises realize the full value of their digitization 
effort," said Vara Kumar, Co-Founder and CTO at Whatfix. "Whatfix will continue 
to hire across all functions and geographies and provide the leading digital 
adoption platform that enables clients to drive adoption across applications, 
browsers and devices; is easy to deploy; has the most open ecosystem and is 
truly secure."

"Our journey with Whatfix has been a true partnership. We continue to work 
together to find ways to improve the experience of our customers using 
Whatfix's versatile software. They continue to put us, their customers, first 
so that we are able to focus on our business – putting our customers first," 
Elliott Tucker, HP B2B eCommerce Process Lead. 

Whatfix now joins Sequoia Capital India's venture-backed family of tier-one 
enterprise SaaS players that are already embraced in enterprise tech stacks. 

"Software is penetrating the deepest crevices of enterprise workflows at an 
unprecedented pace. Enterprise software spend is $450B+ globally growing 9% 
y-o-y. A new category of Digital Adoption Solutions ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2724235-1&h=559098408&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatfix.com%2Fdigital-adoption-solution%2F&a=Digital+Adoption+Solutions 
) (DAS) is fast emerging to ensure user adoption keeps pace with software 
purchase", said Tejeshwi Sharma, Principal, Sequoia Capital India LLP. "Whatfix 
has been instrumental in shaping the DAS category by innovating products aimed 
at democratizing adoption and efficient use of software products. Khadim and 
Vara have taken a customer-first approach, a reflection of their deep 
understanding and empathy for the end users. Sequoia India is stoked to be 
joining them in this category creation journey," he added.

According to the Gartner Research, "Digital Adoption Solutions are used to 
improve the adoption of multiple tools across the organization. The software 
walks a user through business processes across multiple products. It provides 
consistent user experience, eliminating in some cases manual entry. It supplies 
visually clear paths to complete tasks. It enables sellers to be onboarded 
faster and improve productivity. Sales is a key use case but this technology 
can apply to other areas in an organization as well as to external products 
sold by an organization," says Melissa Hilbert ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2724235-1&h=3058068313&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gartner.com%2Fanalyst%2F60831%2FMelissa-Hilbert&a=Melissa+Hilbert 
), Sr. Director Analyst, in the Gartner "Increase Sales Productivity With 
Digital Adoption Solutions ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2724235-1&h=2157000487&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatfix.com%2Fdigital-adoption-solution%2F&a=Solutions 
)", May 21, 2019 (Gartner subscription required).

"The Whatfix Digital Adoption Platform is designed to provide personalized 
training for workers within web applications. The solution delivers learning 
content in various formats, and it includes real-time guidance. It can also 
integrate with an organization's learning management system (LMS) to create 
interactive training programs," said author Julie Hiipakka, Vice President, 
Learning Research LeaderBersin, Deloitte Consulting LLP, in her recent report 
Learning in The Flow of Work Solutions, released in November 2019.

"Whatfix's digital adoption platform is quickly establishing itself as an 
important pillar to accelerate user adoption of technology stacks of leading 
global enterprises," said Shweta Bhatia ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2724235-1&h=3146627002&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fshweta-bhatia-5b1717%2F&a=Shweta+Bhatia 
), Partner at Eight Roads Ventures. "We are proud to be their partner and are 
excited to see how Whatfix continues to bring innovative new solutions to 
revolutionize software adoption and the future of work," she added.

Whatfix currently has 230 employees across six global offices. Whatfix has over 
500 global customers, including Automation Anywhere, Experian, Grifols, REG 
Services Group, Reed Specialist Recruitment, Sentry Financial Services, 
Cardinal Health Canada, DaVita Healthcare, BMC Software Inc., and more. 

About Whatfix
Whatfix is a Digital Adoption Solution that disrupts Application Training, 
Learning, and Support content by providing Contextual, Interactive, Real-Time, 
and Autonomous user guidance- driving additional adoption and productivity 
gains. Whatfix has a proven record of increasing employee productivity by 35%, 
reducing training time and costs by 60%, reducing employee case tickets by 50% 
and increasing application data accuracy by 20%. Whatfix is based in San Jose, 
San Francisco, Bangalore, London and Melbourne.  

Media Contacts:
Frances Robinson
Lumina Communications for Whatfix
Whatfix@luminapr.com 

Gary Malhotra
VP-Product Marketing
Whatfix
gary@whatfix.com 

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