ControlUp
announced it has completed a $27 million Series C round of financing led by
Jerusalem
Venture Partners ("JVP") and K1 Investment Management
("K1"),
bringing total funding to $40 million. Since launching in 2014, ControlUp has
supported business continuity for thousands of enterprises. The latest
investment will enable the company to expand its platform and market presence
to monitor and dynamically optimize user experience for the enormous growth in
Work-From-Home deployments.
"As we look across the business sector over the last year, it is clear that
every industry has been impacted. From healthcare and finance, to education and
government, every industry has one clear goal: to identify and activate an
agile workflow for their employees," said Asaf Ganot, founder and CEO of
ControlUp. "At ControlUp, we work to ensure that our 1,200+ worldwide
enterprise customers have the resources and expertise needed to address IT
management challenges, while simultaneously planning for the future. We are
committed to providing the best solutions on the market to ensure companies are
able to create sound workflows and achieve their overarching business goals,
across an evolving array of work environments."
The Series C financing follows major company milestones:
- Expanding the company's client
roster to B2C and B2B brands comprising more than 50 of the Fortune 100,
including T-Mobile/Sprint, plus a host of others;
- Expanding the industry-leading
platform to enhance its abilities as the most complete and unique platform
for enterprise management of digital user experience;
- Growing the company employee
base by more than 50% in 2020, employing 180 employees globally.
"ControlUp leads the next generation of performance automation of
information systems, distributed among offices and endpoints, in any
organization, anytime, anywhere, in a virtual or physical environment. It gives
the organization a complete picture of its network performance," says Erel
Margalit, founder and chairman of JVP. "Through Artificial Intelligence the
company enables learning of best practices in parallel networks and performance
improvement in real time.
We are proud of our partnership with Asaf Ganot and Yoni Avital, entrepreneurs
who have built a significant company and are bringing Israeli excellence to the
forefront of the world stage. They are on their way to building a leading
global company."
ControlUp's AIOps platform gives organizations an end-to-end view of their
end-user computing environments. With the lion's share of the global workforce
currently working outside the office, the intelligence provided by ControlUp is
vital to providing an optimal user experience and ensuring productive work
environments. At the heart of ControlUp's solution is its proprietary machine learning-based
Real-Time Engine, which connects to a multitude of data sources using flexible
and expandable data collectors that cover a wide array of architectures and
technologies. It uses a high-performance, in-memory database in order to
digest, associate and correlate hundreds of thousands of records in a single
node.
"K1 is excited to partner with JVP and the ControlUp team as they continue
their impressive expansion in the end-user computing space," said Hasan Askari,
managing partner at K1. "ControlUp has a unique solution for managing
technology environments for businesses that seek to improve the user and
employee experience. Their approach is simple and accessible and solves the
real-world problems that businesses need to succeed."