Mobile Content Enablement Platform Improves Productivity While Providing Valuable Insights Around Content Usage
WALTHAM – February 21, 2014 – Bigtincan, a leader in mobile content enablement, today announced that it has secured five million dollars in Series A funding led by Southern Cross Venture Partners. The investment will help the company capitalize on the rapid adoption and increasing demand for Bigtincan hub – its mobile content enablement platform. Bigtincan hub is a unified set of productivity tools that enables users to securely and effectively engage with the right content at the right time in the right location – no matter where the content resides. Bigtincan provides intelligent insights around the interaction, utilization and value of content within an organization, while providing unprecedented control and governance over content usage and sharing.
“This funding comes at a pivotal time for Bigtincan as we look to expand our footprint across the market and continue our next phase of growth,” said David Keane, founder and CEO of Bigtincan. “The team at Southern Cross Venture Partners has a deep history of investing in emerging platforms that transform markets. Their expertise will be invaluable as we look to rapidly scale our mobile content enablement platform to take advantage of the explosive growth in business mobility.”
The Series A investment comes on the heels of an impressive 2013 for Bigtincan. The company has a roster of hundreds of enterprise customers deriving business value from its mobile content enablement platform including Hologic, Telefonica, Jones Junction and ReachLocal among many others. Bigtincan has also locked in nearly a dozen key strategic partnerships with domestic and international companies like MobileIron, Aruba and Citrix. Consistent innovation is at the center of Bigtincan’s success and the company continues to develop new and improved ways to help businesses with mobile workforces become more efficient and effective.
As a result of the investment, Bigtincan has also added Bill Bartee, serial entrepreneur and managing director of Southern Cross Venture Partners, to its board of directors. Bartee brings decades of experience building high-value, successful companies and has deep expertise in software, telecommunications and Internet technologies.
“2013 has been a hallmark year in mobile technology, and Bigtincan’s integrated solution has established the company as the leader when it comes to driving value and business productivity on mobile devices,” said Bartee. “We’re excited to help accelerate Bigtincan’s growth through strategic counsel and this investment. I’m confident that we’re in the perfect position to drive disruptive value for the market.”
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About Bigtincan
Bigtincan has transformed the way business is done on mobile devices. The company’s innovative mobile content enablement solution, Bigtincan hub, is a unified set of productivity tools that enables users to securely and effectively engage with the right content at the right time in the right location – no matter where the content resides. Bigtincan provides intelligent insights around the interaction, utilization and value of content within an organization, while providing unprecedented control and governance over content usage and sharing. Founded in 2011 with headquarters in Waltham, MA and regional offices in Paris, Singapore and Sydney, the company has customers across a variety of industries including: government, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail and technology. For more information, please visit www.bigtincan.com or follow @bigtincan on Twitter.