SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SocialChorus, the leader in workforce communications SaaS, today announced that Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP) — a growth-focused technology investment firm — along with existing investors, has led a $100 million investment in the company to accelerate growth and product innovation. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The investment will enable SocialChorus to continue its significant momentum of 50% year-over-year growth in both 2018 and 2019, which has accelerated in 2020. Hundreds of customers use SocialChorus today — including 10 of the Fortune 50 — to power their workforce communications, reaching millions of workers across 165 countries with their most important company information from the world’s most advanced communications platform. With SocialChorus, enterprises can create and publish communications once in the platform, automatically send that content to any employee channel including mobile apps, intranets, email and more, and measure the impact across channels.
As enterprises adapt to a constantly shifting landscape, SocialChorus’ recent growth has been driven by the digital transformation underway among large enterprises. According to a McKinsey survey, 70% of business transformation initiatives do not reach their goals; so, of the $1.3 trillion IDC projects businesses will spend on digital transformation this year, over $900 billion could go to waste. The leading reason for these failures is a lack of digital capabilities needed to support them.
“Digital transformation is reliant on human transformation, which can only happen if an organization's communication infrastructure enables them to reach, align and mobilize all of their people. This is easy to say and difficult to do,” said Gary Nakamura, SocialChorus CEO and board director. “At SocialChorus, we are excited to partner with SEP to expand our market-leading product innovation, customer success and go-to-market strategies to meet the needs of today’s global enterprises.”
SocialChorus’ financial backers Kohlberg Ventures and Arrowroot Capital will continue as significant investors in the company, alongside the founders and management. GCA Advisors served as financial advisor to SocialChorus, while Union Square Advisors served as financial advisor to SEP.
For full details of the release please visit SocialChorus' Newsroom, or for further information please contact victoria@melvillecommunications.co.uk or call +44 (0)1483 489009.