QuestionPro Inc. is a Seattle based survey software and analytics company. Founded by entrepreneur and software developer Vivek Bhaskaran in 2002, the company was later merged with Survey Analytics, a previous company by the same founder. Since its inception the company has added some major clients such as Microsoft, Honeywell, Motorola, Samsung, Toyota, Siemens and Stanford University. It was named in the 500 list of fastest growing private companies in 2009. Acquisitions In 2012, QuestionPro made its first acquisition, an online survey polling platform Pollbob. At that time QuestionPro already had over 2.5 million users across 40 countries. In 2014, the company made its second acquisition, this time the San Diego based micro survey company RapidEngage. Programs and developments In 2012, the company released one of the World's first online infographic generation tools, as part of their survey software package. In 2015, QuestionPro launched it's Academic Sponsorship Programme across various countries, especially in India. The program focuses on giving free academic survey software licenses to college and university students including all Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Management and National Institute of Technology. The company also launched an offline survey mobile app with the focus on organisations involved in collecting data from remote locations without internet availability. India based start-up Anant Learning and Development used the app to assess farmers who were trained under a special skill development programme called the National Skill Development Agency NSDA of India. The start-up customised the software in 17 languages, and after six months, was able to assess 10,000 farmers in a month, up from 300 before it started using QuestionPro. Currently, every month over 20,000 surveys are created and 200,000 responses collected using QuestionPro, which has about 4,000 corporate companies as it's clients. QuestionPro competes with SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics, both US-based venture-backed companies.
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