BetterWorks

BetterWorks is an enterprise Software company based in Redwood City, California. BetterWorks customers include GoPro, Edmunds.com, UpWind Solutions, Bluenose Analytics, Lookout, Lumeris, Paperless Post, Viacom, the United States Department Of Health and Human Services, and Zynga.

The BetterWorks enterprise goals platform debuted in September 2014 with a public announcement AbOUT the solution’s capabilities and a $15.5 million Series A round from venture firms. The company is part of the Salesforce Analytics Cloud Ecosystem, which provides instant access to enterprise goals data. BetterWorks has also designed its enterprise app to be one of the first for Apple Watch. VentureBeat named BetterWorks one of 19 startups "ready to blast off in 2015" and Inc. wrote that BetterWorks was one of six “incredibly thought-provoking tech innovations” at the 2015 South by Southwest Conference.

Background

BetterWorks is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with an office in New York City. It is privately held and backed by venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Formation 8.

The company was co-founded by Kris Duggan, former CEO and founder of Badgeville, along with BetterWorks engineering lead Di Wu. Prior to Badgeville, Duggan held leadership roles at a variety of SaaS companies, including WebEx. Previously, Wu was at Palantir Technologies.

Investors and Advisors

The company’s board of directors and advisors includes John Doerr and Bing Gordon, partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Joe Lonsdale, founder and general partner of Formation 8, Google Emeritus Shona Brown, former VP of Adobe and CEO of EchoSign, Jason Lemkin, Deep Nishar formerly SVP, Products and User Experience at LinkedIn, and Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of People Operations at Google.

Technology

The BetterWorks platform is a SaaS-based solution. BetterWorks is designed with modern goal setting methodologies (like Google’s Objectives & Key Results method) in mind.