SMS Assist provides a fully managed business solution to more than 140,000 client locations with a network of over 20,000 affiliate subcontractors. Using its unique business model and proprietary cloud-based technology platform, SMS Assist continuously reduces client costs to maintain their properties, while improving service quality and speed of delivery. SMS Assist is a Pritzker Group portfolio company.
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Location: United States, Illinois, Chicago
Employees: 501-1000
Phone: +1 312-698-7000
Total raised: $240M
Founded date: 1999
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Scop Ventu... | scopvc.com |
| - | Pritzker G... | pritzkergr... |
| - | Insight Pa... | insightpar... |
| - | Range Ligh... | rangelight... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 07.06.2016 | Series D | $150M | - |
| 05.05.2015 | Series C | $45M | - |
| 22.10.2013 | - | $45M | Pritzker G... |
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| 22.05.2017 | Rackspace’s Former CEO Rhodes Takes Top Job at Chicago’s SMS Assist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints San Antonio—Taylor Rhodes, the former Rackspace CEO who resigned at the beginning of this month, is taking the helm of a Chicago-based company, SMS Assist, which has software ... |
| 16.09.2016 | Forbes Releases First List of Top 100 Cloud Companies + 20 Rising Stars | Forbes has released the first-ever Forbes 2016 Cloud 100, the list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, which has developed in partnership with global venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners. In addition to the leadin... |
| 07.06.2016 | SMS Assist Receives $150M Series D Investment from Goldman Sachs Investment Partners | CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 7, 2016– SMS Assist, an innovative mobile and cloud-based multisite property management company, today announced it has raised $150 million in Series D funding from Goldman Sachs Investment Partners. Prior inves... |
| 07.06.2016 | Multisite Property Management Company SMS Assist Raises $150M in Series D Funding | SMS Assist, a Chicago, IL-based mobile and cloud-based multisite property management company, raised $150m in Series D funding. Goldman Sachs Investment Partners made the investment. The company intends to use the funds to continue developi... |
| 07.06.2016 | SMS Assist Raises $150M to Become Chicago's Latest Unicorn | SMS Assist Deal: $150 million in Series D Investors: Goldman Sachs Investment Partners What they do: Chicago-based SMS Assist provides property management software for 20,000 subcontracted affiliates and their 120,000 properties. SMS Assist... |
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