Five9 Inc.

Infobox Company
company_name = Five9, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private [http://www.five9.com/about/board_of_directors.htm]
foundation = Pleasanton, California (2001)
location_city = Pleasanton, California
location_country = USA
key_people = Mike Burkland, Chief Executive Officer
Bob Murphy, Chief Financial Officer
Jim Dvorkin, Chief Technology Officer

industry = Predictive dialer
Automatic Call Distribution
VoIP
Customer Relationship Management
Interactive Voice Response

Five9 is a leading provider of hosted call center and Predictive dialer software for Small and medium enterprises. Five9 was one of the first companies to exclusively utilize Software as a service to deliver call center software to its customers.

Corporate History

Five9 was founded in January 2001 and officially launched in Walnut Creek, CA March 2001. The company founders [http://www.johnsungkim.com John Sung Kim] , Ray Soto, Gus Laredo, James Southworth and Andrew Veliath launched the company with an angel round of less than $100K. The company managed to survive, prosper and grow the business with it first product offering while working on what has now become their flagship offering Five9 Hosted offering. On December 2002 Five9 officially launched the hosted offering. Five9 secured Series A venture capital in 2004 followed by a Series B offering in 2005. Five9 has outpaced the hosted call center industry and is currently recognized by Inc. (magazine) as one of America's Top 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

External links

;Five9
* [http://www.five9.com Five9, Inc.] - Official Web site

;General
* [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=five9+inc. Google Search] - Search Five9 Related Pages

;In the News
* [http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/hosted-contact-center/articles/21631-hosted-contact-center-software-experiencing-growth-despite-common.htm TMCnet Article] - Hosted Contact Center Software Experiencing Growth Despite Common Myths

;Whitepapers
* [http://www.five9.com/resources/whitepapers/whitepaper-yankee_tco.htm Yankee Group] - On-Demand Call Center Total Cost of Ownership Study