500friends, a Merkle Company is a leader in customer loyalty marketing solutions. Clients depend on 500friends to help them develop and execute a differentiated and impactful customer loyalty strategy that delivers the business results they expect. The end-to-end loyalty services 500friends offers include strategic consulting, a SaaS platform named LoyaltyPlus, platform integration, program management and support, and analytics. 500friends was named a leader and received the highest overall score in Forrester's Wave for Customer Loyalty Solutions for Midmarket Q1 2016. According to Forrester, "clients praise both the platform and the people. Specifically, they like LoyaltyPlus’s flexibility and ease of use, and indicate that implementations are typically on-time and on-budget."
500friends is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and is a Merkle company. Merkle is a data-driven, technology-enabled performance marketing agency and also the nation’s largest privately-held agency. This combination creates the industry’s most robust loyalty resource for our clients, based on the synergies of 500friends’ platform with Merkle’s industry-leading practices in data strategies, 1st & 3rd party data linkage, and predictive analytics. Learn more at www.500friends.com.
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $10.9M
Founded date: 2010
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| 21.07.2020 | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| - | Wasabi Ven... | partners.w... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 12.03.2013 | Series B | $5M | Fung Capit... |
| 16.03.2012 | Series A | $5.9M | - |
Mentions in press and media 17
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 26.11.2014 | Merkle acquires SF-based 500friends [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting funded? UM Ventures, a unit of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, made it... | technical.... |
| 18.11.2014 | Merkle Acquires Loyalty Startup 500friends | Customer relationship management company Merkle announced today that it has acquired startup 500frie... | techcrunch... |
| 12.03.2013 | 500friends gets $5M to tell you who your best customers are ... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 12.03.2013 | 500friends Makes Friends with $5M Series B | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Startup that helps retailers manage their customer loyalty programs, is announc... | vcnewsdail... |
| 12.03.2013 | 500friends Raises $5M in Series B Funding | 500friends, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of loyalty and lifecycle marketing solutions, raised ... | finsmes.co... |
| 12.03.2013 | 500friends Raises $5M To Bring Its Online Loyalty Programs T... | 500friends, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps retailers manage their customer loyalty prog... | techcrunch... |
| 10.08.2012 | Founders, beware! 500friends will catch your developers with... | To reference Marilyn Monroe, a good developer is hard to find. Which is why startup 500friends is de... | venturebea... |
| 05.07.2012 | 500Friends Predicts And Rewards Big Retailers’ Most Valuable... | Not all customers are created equal — that’s the idea behind a new product from Y Combinator-backed ... | techcrunch... |
| 16.03.2012 | 500Friends (YC W10) Raises $4.5M Series A For Its Social Loy... | 500Friends, the social loyalty solution for e-commerce retailers, is announcing it has completed a $... | blog.ycomb... |
| 15.03.2012 | 500friends Completes $4.5M Series A Financing | 500friends, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based provider of social loyalty solutions for e-commerce reta... | finsmes.co... |
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