Yammer is an enterprise social network established to foster team collaboration, empower employees, and drive business transformation. It enables employees to collaborate in real time across departments, geographies, and business applications. It also helps them create groups to collaborate on projects and share and edit documents.
The service of yammer.com can be accessed through the web, desktop, and mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android, and Blackberry, enabling a “virtual office” that employees can plug into while on-the-go. Additionally, Yammer can be easily integrated with other systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, creating a social layer across all enterprise applications.
Yammer has secured more than 7 million users, including employees from 85 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2008, Yammer is now a part of Microsoft.
Total raised
$142M
Last stage
Series E
Investors
Adam Pisoni
Co-founded Yammer with David Sacks in 2008 after a stint at Geni.com. Served as CTO until the Microsoft acquisition. Later founded Abl Schools.
George Ishii
Co-founder of Yammer, the enterprise social network acquired by Microsoft for $1.2B in 2012.
David O. Sacks
Previously COO and product leader at PayPal. Founded Yammer in 2008 and served as CEO until its $1.2B acquisition by Microsoft in 2012. Later co-founded Craft Ventures.
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