
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.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Member count: 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 | Deal News |
12.03.2013 | Series B | $5M | - | venturebea... |
14.03.2012 | Series A | $5.9M | - | techcrunch... |
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26.11.2014 | Merkle acq... | Who’s getting funded? UM Vent... | - | - | technical.... |
18.11.2014 | Merkle Acq... | Customer relationship manageme... | 500friends... | Anthony Ha | techcrunch... |
12.03.2013 | 500friends... | 500friends, a Y Combinator-inc... | 500friends | Anthony Ha | techcrunch... |
12.03.2013 | 500friends... | 500friends, a San Francisco, C... | funding S... | - | finsmes.co... |
12.03.2013 | 500friends... | We are excited to bring Transf... | - | Meghan Kel... | venturebea... |
12.03.2013 | 500friends... | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Startup t... | - | - | vcnewsdail... |
10.08.2012 | Founders, ... | To reference Marilyn Monroe, a... | - | Rebecca Gr... | venturebea... |
05.07.2012 | 500Friends... | Not all customers are created ... | - | Anthony Ha | techcrunch... |
16.03.2012 | 500Friends... | 500Friends, the social loyalty... | YC News | - | blog.ycomb... |
15.03.2012 | 500friends... | 500friends, Inc., a San Franci... | funding S... | - | finsmes.co... |
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