Liveops
| File:LogoLiveopsWhiteOnCyan.png | |
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Outsourcing Customer Service |
| Founded 📆 | 2000 |
| Founders 👔 | Steve Doumar Doug Feirstein |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , |
Area served 🗺️ | United States |
Key people | Greg Hanover, CEO |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 100 full time plus thousands of work-at-home agents |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Liveops is an outsourcing and contact center company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was formed in 2000 by Steve Doumar and Doug Feirstein in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[1][2]
In 2015, the company moved its headquarters to Scottsdale. Liveops provides U.S.-based agent services for insurance, health and human services, and retail customers.
Liveops was one of the first "gig economy" companies and the work-at-home virtual workforce industry,[3] and it has been featured at an INSEAD Case Study at Harvard Business Review.[4] As of 2020, Liveops employed one hundred full time employees, plus thousands of temporary or part-time employees, and its platform had processed more than one billion minutes of customer service interactions.[5][6][7]
History
In 2003, Florida-based Liveops merged with California-based CallCast, renaming CallCast as Liveops, and moving its headquarters to Redwood City, California in 2004.[8]
In 2006, Liveops named former eBay COO Maynard Webb as its CEO.[8]
In 2011, Liveops named former Sybase president Marty Beard as its new CEO.[9]
In 2014, BlackBerry poached Marty Beard as their new COO[10] and Liveops named former ShoreTel VP Vasili Triant as its new CEO.[11]
In July 2015, Liveops relocated their headquarters from Redwood City, California to Cedar Park, Texas.[12]
In October 2015, Liveops opens new Agent Services headquarters in Scottsdale, AZ.[13]
In December 2015, Liveops announced that Marlin Equity Partners would acquire the Liveops Cloud Platform business.[13]
In December 2016, Keith Leimbach was named CEO.[13]
In September 2017, Liveops named former COO, Greg Hanover, CEO.[14]
Funding
Liveops is a venture backed startup that has received over $50 million in venture capital funding.[when?]
CallCast (which merged with Liveops) raised a $1 million Series A funding round in January 2002 with funding from Scott Banister, Wendell Brown, Reid Hoffman, Josh Kopelman, and Bill Trenchard.
Liveops raised a $22 million Series B round on April 1, 2004 led by Menlo Ventures and CMEA Capital.
On February 13, 2007 the company raised a $28 million Series C round from Menlo Ventures, CMEA Capital, Benchmark, and Michael Dearing.
References
- ↑ Botsman, Rachel (December 1, 2014). "Nine start-ups to rock your world". Financial Review. Australian Financial Review. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
- ↑ "LiveOps, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek". Archived from the original on 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2015-04-23. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Learn About the History of LiveOps". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-05-16. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Stouras, Konstantinos I.; Girotra, Karan; Netessine, Serguei (October 1, 2014). "LiveOps: The Contact Centre Reinvented". INSEAD Business School Case 6097.
- ↑ "LiveOps to Present and Exhibit at International Cloud Computing Expo - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Agents on Demand | LiveOps, Inc. | Call Center Services". Archived from the original on 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2016-02-11. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Pitchbook profile LiveOps". Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Barry, David (April 1, 2010). "The $100 Million Revenue Club: LiveOps Checks Off IPO Boxes". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
- ↑ Kim, Elizabeth (June 21, 2011). "LiveOps names Marty Beard president, CEO". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
- ↑ Martinez, Juan (July 21, 2014). "BlackBerry poaches former LiveOps CEO Marty Beard". TechRadar. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
- ↑ "Vasili Triant | LiveOps Cloud Contact Center | Call Center Software". Archived from the original on 2015-09-12. Retrieved 2015-04-23. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "LiveOps Announces New Cedar Park, Texas Corporate Headquarters". www.businesswire.com. 2015-07-30. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "About us". Liveops, Inc. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ "MarketWired". marketwired.com. September 7, 2017.
External links
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