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Segment is the infrastructure for customer data. Businesses use Segment's API to unlock 200+ tools for every team across their organization.
With Segment, developers can stop building tedious and expensive one-off data integrations while business users can get straight to work, turning on their favorite apps right from the Segment dashboard.
From implementing advertising to marketing automation to data warehousing and beyond— getting customer data into business critical systems isn't an engineering roadblock anymore. Segment is trusted by thousands of companies including Crate&Barrel, Gap, IBM, and New Relic.
History
Segment.io accepted into Y Combinator (YC S11)
Open-sources analytics.js, the hassle-free way to integrate event tracking into any web application
Launches Segment, a hosted version of analytics.js
Adds iOS and Android libraries, supporting mobile customer data
Releases Ecommerce spec, a set of standard supported events for Ecommerce customer journeys
Raises $15M Series A led by Accel, Kleiner Perkins, and e.ventures
Launches Warehouses, starting with Amazon Redshift
Launches Sources, pulling 2nd party cloud data out from the tools that silo it
Introduces Native Mobile Spec, a standard blueprint for automatically tracking key mobile user events
Introduces Connection Modes, for optimizing site performance
Announces Open Fellowship, supporting the open-source developer community
Launches Cross-Domain Analytics, for understanding browsing activity across multiple domains
Raises $64M Series C led by YC Continuity and GV
Introduces Personas to drive personalized experiences with enriched customer profiles
Adds Snowflake as a data warehouse destination
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Open Source at Segment
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Over 400 Open Source projects
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Battle-tested tools
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Open Fellowship
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Getting Started with Segment
Segment is the infrastructure for your customer data. Use one API to unlock 200+ tools for every team in your company. With Segment, developers can stop building tedious and expensive one-off data integrations while business users can get straight to work, turning on their favorite apps right from the Segment dashboard.