Simpplr provides an AI-powered employee experience (EX) platform that delivers personalized experiences to inspire and engage employees. Organizations use its products to deliver measurable productivity gains and increased engagement. The platform is used by more than one million people worldwide across North America, EMEA, and APAC. The company is led by Founder and CEO Dhiraj Sharma and is based in Redwood City, CA. Simpplr recently raised $70M in a Series D and intends to use the funds to invest in growth and innovation of the EX platform. The company also announced several senior executive hires to support expansion, including new CRO, CPO/CX, CTO, Chief Data Scientist, and CMO appointments. Simpplr builds a modern platform for creating intranet sites that serves as an employee communications and enablement tool. Its product emphasizes user experience and includes features like an auto-governance engine and analytics designed to show the impact of communications. The company added 100 enterprise customers over the past year, including Splunk, Nutanix, Fox, AAA insurance, and Renewal by Andersen, and doubled its team since last August. Demand for Simpplr’s solution was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic as companies shifted to remote and hybrid work. The company is working on adding more AI into its tools, including analytics, to help customers better communicate with employees and measure message impact. Financially, Simpplr has raised just over $61 million in total funding following a $32 million Series C led by Tola Capital. Simpplr offers a modern intranet platform that helps companies engage their workforce by streamlining internal communication and forging employee connections. Its product includes an AI-built auto-governance engine to keep intranet content up-to-date and relevant. The company also enhanced its Adaptive Personalization to tailor user experiences by role, location, tenure, department, interests and past searches. Customers named in the article include Workday, AAA, Fox, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, DocuSign, Eurostar, The World Economic Forum and Columbia University. Simpplr plans to use new funding to accelerate product innovation, expand go-to-market efforts and extend its partner ecosystem. The company operates from Redwood City, California and also has an office in Gurgaon, India. Financially, the company completed a $10M Series B in the reported round. Simpplr is a San Francisco–based provider of internal communication, knowledge management, and employee services, founded in 2014 by CEO Dhiraj Sharma. Its flagship Simpplr Employee Community platform connects employees with information and applications across departments and provides personalized content based on roles, interests and permissions. The platform is pre-integrated with workplace applications including Box, Okta, Salesforce and Workday. Its second product, Simpplr Employee Help Desk, is a Salesforce Bolt Solution built on the Lightning Bolt Framework that enables employee self-service, case creation and automates cross-department workflows. The Help Desk was slated to pilot in Q4 2016 and to be generally available by Summer 2017. The company closed a $6M Series A and intends to use the funds to accelerate development of Employee Community and to expand Employee Help Desk.

Total raised

$118M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

May 2023