Company type | Private |
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Industry | Employee Communication and Engagement Platform |
Founded | November 2010 |
Founders | Russ Fradin, Jim Larrison, Steve Heyman |
Headquarters | |
Key people | Eric Brown, CEO |
Products | Dynamic Signal |
Services | employee communication, employee engagement |
Number of employees | 170 |
Website | dynamicsignal |
Dynamic Signal is a technology company, offering a mobile-first company communications platform, based in San Bruno, California.[1][2] Russ Fradin, Steve Heyman and Jim Larrison founded the company in 2010.[3] Fradin is the Chairman of the Board of Dynamic Signal.[1][2] while Eric Brown is CEO.
In November 2010, Russ Fradin, Steve Heyman and Jim Larrison founded Dynamic Signal.[3][4][5] They previously worked for Adify, an advertising infrastructure company.[3] In February 2011, Dynamic Signal raised $8 million in equity-based financing from a group of 30 investors.[6] That July, Business Insider included Dynamic Signal on its list of "The 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need To Watch."[4] The company closed a $13.3 million funding round led by Venrock in July 2012.[7][8] Time Warner, Trinity Ventures and Cox Enterprises also participated.[7] In March 2013, the company announced VoiceStorm, a product that manages and measures employees' efforts to promote a company on social networks.[1] That November, Intel partnered with Dynamic Signal.[9]
Dynamic Signal released an iOS application for VoiceStorm in February 2014.[10] In August 2014, the company closed a $12 million funding round led by Rembrandt Venture and participation from Venrock, Trinity Ventures, Time Warner Ventures and Cox Enterprises.[2][11][12] Some of the funds were used to acquire PaperShare, a content marketing start-up based in Washington.[2]
In December 2016, Dynamic Signal raised $25 million in growth financing.[13] Participants in this round included new investors, Akkadian Ventures, Microsoft Ventures and Focus Opportunity Fund in addition to participation by existing investors, Trinity Ventures, Venrock, Rembrandt, and Time Warner.[13] Dynamic Signal used the newly acquired funds to expand its international operations.
Dynamic Signal is headquartered in San Bruno, California and has approximately 170 employees.[2][14][failed verification] The company has delivered impressions for brands such as Hitachi Data Systems, Salesforce, Deloitte and GameStop.[12] According to a company press release in May 2017, Dynamic Signal was then servicing "nearly 20 percent of the Fortune 500, and 20 percent of the Fortune 50".[15]
Dynamic Signal markets what it describes as an "Employee Communication and Engagement Platform" to communications, HR, and marketing professionals.[16][4] The platform is intended to enable communications for both internal company news and information, as well as industry content that can be "distributed and tracked through employees' own social channels".[11]