| Website | spiceworks.com |
| Blog | blog.spiceworks.com |
| @spiceworks | |
| Category | Software |
| Phone | 512-628-8200 |
| info@spiceworks.com | |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1/06 |
| TOTAL | $54M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $54M |
| Series A, 6/06 Austin Ventures | $5M |
| Series B, 8/07 Austin Ventures Shasta Ventures | $8M |
| Series C, 1/10 Institutional Venture Partners Austin Ventures Shasta Ventures | $16M |
| Series D, 4/11 Adams Street Partners Tenaya Capital Institutional Venture Partners Austin Ventures Shasta Ventures | $25M |
Austin, Texas-based Spiceworksâ„¢, Inc. is a social business network for IT that is transforming how $1 trillion worth of technology products and services is marketed and sold each year to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide. Over 1.4 million IT professionals use the free Spiceworks network management application and integrated Facebook-like community to discover, buy and manage technology in a social way. Hundreds of top tech brands, including Dell, Intel and Microsoft, leverage the power of Spiceworks to connect with buyers, conduct market research, advertise, and sell to IT professionals while they work.
Another key feature of Spiceworks is the ability to connect with other IT managers. When problems come up you can post questions, submit answers and use group-edited wiki articles, etc. Also, if you think of a feature you wish Spiceworks offered you can make a request, which will be rated and voted on by the rest of the community. The integration of crowd-sourcing should make for a valuable IT feature. Currently, the Spiceworks user community supports 46 million workers, manages 80 million computers and devices, and spends nearly $244 billion annually on technology products and services.
Network management competitors include Versiera, WhatsUp and Microsoft.
| Website | spiceworks.com |
| Blog | blog.spiceworks.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | July 24, 2006 |
| Tags | spiceworks, ad-supported-software |
Spiceworks is enabling ‘Social IT’ by offering small-to-medium sized businesses (up to 1,000 employees) free network management software integrated with a rapidly growing Facebook-like community of IT professionals. As of September 2010, more than 1 million small business IT professionals worldwide use Spiceworks to collaborate and manage everything IT – from cloud-based services to on-premise technology products. Currently, the Spiceworks user community supports 37 million workers, manages 63 million computers and devices, and spends nearly $200 billion annually on technology products and services.
It is the first business application to embed crowdsourcing and community collaboration features directly into an IT professional’s daily workflow.
Spiceworks is supported by displaying relevant, non-intrusive ads on topics that are useful to IT professionals.
