Yieldify

Yieldify
Private
Industry
Founded June 1, 2013
Founders
  • Jay Radia
  • Meelan Radia
Headquarters London, England
Key people
  • Jay Radia (CEO)
  • Richard Sharp (CTO)
Website www.yieldify.com

Yieldify is a marketing technology company that uses predictive marketing to track and optimize conversion rates for e-commerce companies.[1] Yieldify was founded in June 2013 by brothers Jay and Meelan Radia. The company is headquartered in London and has offices in cities around the world, including New York, Munich, Porto, and Sydney.

Yieldify raised $11.5 million (£7.3 million) in a Series A funding round with Softbank Capital and Google Ventures Europe.[2] Yieldify was one of the first three companies backed by the £80 million Google Ventures Europe fund, which launched in July 2014, and one of only six companies backed before Google merged its European VC arm into its global investment fund.[3] Before its Series A funding round, Yieldify had raised $1.2 million in a seed round from investors including Hoxton Ventures and Robin Klein.[1]

After two years in business Yieldify became one of the fastest-growing tech start-ups in UK history as of December 2015[4] and was one of Europe's fastest growing SaaS businesses in 2014, with revenue growth of 480%.[1]

The company has expanded to several markets, opening a new office in Sydney, Australia in 2013,[5] an office in New York in 2014, and a technology development hub in Porto, Portugal in 2015.[6] The Porto hub team focuses on developing the company's predictive marketing algorithm.[6]

In 2015, co-founder and CEO Jay Radia was selected to be part of the Financial Times' Euro Tech Top 10 Under 30.[7]

In 2016, Yieldify suffered a multitude of unfortunate events. After being hit by a lawsuit in late 2015 by Bounce Exchange, Yieldify were forced to reassess their goals, and let go of 10% of the team in early March, with further lay offs over the upcoming months. The lawsuits were settled out of court later in the year, however more lay offs followed, with the Porto office closed in August 2016. Since, many prominent employees and clients have left.

Business model

Yieldify is part of the conversion rate optimization and predictive marketing industries. Their approach is to use a combination of data analysis and behavioral science to create a more personalized shopping experience.[8] The software collects data on user behaviour, dwell time and browsing activity and matches this data to offers and products to suggest personalized deals to shoppers.[1]

Awards

Yieldify was entered into Tech City UK's Future Fifty list of the UK's top 50 fast-growth digital startups.[9]

The company was voted Industry Choice of Publisher at the 2015 Performance Marketing Awards.[10][11]

Litigation against Bounce

In 2015, New York-based competitor Bounce Exchange filed a lawsuit against Yieldify, accusing the company of copying its code and infringing on its patents.[12] Yieldify denied the allegations, but did change its code after Bounce's initial complaint.[12]

With the first case still open, Bounce filed a second lawsuit in April 2016, repeating the initial allegations and adding some of Yieldify's customers as defendants. Yieldify countersued Bounce Exchange, accusing its competitor of infringing on a patent that was not originally Yieldify's but was purchased by Yieldify from Intellectual Ventures.[12]

The two companies reached an undisclosed settlement in July 2016.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lunden, Ingrid. "UK's Yieldify Raises $11.5M From SoftBank And Google Ventures To Fix E-Commerce Conversions". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  2. ↑ Shead, Sam (25 June 2015). "Google Ventures backs London startups Yieldify and Lost My Name as it looks to cash in on Europe". Techworld. IDG. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  3. ↑ Wauters, Robin (7 December 2015). "Google Ventures to discontinue its $125 million European fund". TechEU. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  4. ↑ "INside Events: Yieldify's Prohibition Party". PerformanceIN. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  5. ↑ "Yieldify Announces Opening of Office in Sydney". PerformanceIN. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  6. 1 2 Pires, Rafael (2015-09-08). "London-based Yieldify opens an office in Porto and is hiring". Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  7. ↑ "Euro tech special: Top 10 under 30". Financial Times. 2015-06-19. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
  8. ↑ Olson, Parmy. "Google, Softbank Put $11.5 Million Into London's Fastest Growing SaaS Company". Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  9. ↑ "15 fast-growth UK start-ups added to Tech City's 'Future Fifty' - Startups.co.uk: Starting a business advice and business ideas". startups.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  10. ↑ PerformanceIN, Presented by. "Winners – Performance Marketing Awards 2015 28 April 2015". Performance Marketing Awards 2015. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  11. ↑ "How to Win a PMA: Yieldify - Industry Choice of Publisher 2015". PerformanceIN. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  12. 1 2 3 4 "Google-backed UK startup Yieldify is settling with the US rival that accused it of copying code". Retrieved 2016-07-23.
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