Connected Acquired by LinkedIn!
Posted on 05 October 2011 by Sachin Rekhi
Category: Announcements | Tags: featured
We started Connected in 2010 to help professionals build, maintain, and leverage their most important relationships. Since our public launch in February 2011, we’ve seen tremendous growth and engagement from our users, with over 11 million contacts under management. These users share our passion for a better way to manage their professional network through a fully automated real-time address book and an intelligent system that proactively helps them stay in touch.
The feedback from our community has been invaluable in helping us iterate on our service and make it a more useful part of your day. We’ve introduced improved daily agendas, new messaging options, and even more integrations with the most popular email, social networks, and address books. And it only gets better from here. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Connected is now part of LinkedIn!
We’re excited about the acquisition by LinkedIn because they share our passion for helping individuals maximize the value of their professional connections. As part of the acquisition, we will be joining the LinkedIn team and working to truly revolutionize contact management. We’ll now be able to do this better and faster and bring this functionality to LinkedIn’s audience of over 120 million professionals.
We’re also happy to announce that starting today we’re making Connected completely free! You can now experience the joys of managing your contacts in Connected without the price tag. If you’re an existing user of Connected, please visit our FAQ for how this affects you.
We would like to thank all of our early adopters, advisers, and investors who have helped us get here. The product would not have grown to what it is today without all of your inspiration, feature suggestions, bug reports, and overall support. We look forward to continuing to improve how you manage your professional relationships!
Sachin Rekhi & Ada Chen
[...] In a message on the Connected Blog, Conected’s Sachin Rekhi and Ada Chen write: [...]
Congrats to you and Ada…
The Linkedin family is now bigger with Connected. It will be of great help for us journalist because the horizon will be opened for more discussions. More knowledge and interaction will be the joy of the members. Thanks and more power to Linkedin!
congrats!
Another success story. Public Launch – Feb 2011. Bought Over – Oct 2011. That’s quick. Huge Congratulations, Sachin & Ada and the team behind Connected. I’ve seen the product in action and it works wonderfully. I can see how it can very easily become a daily dashboard – for the 120+ million LinkedIN users worldwide. Congrats again & Best Wishes for the future. Time to bring out the bubbly. Cheers :-)
[...] Connected was acquired by LinkedIn on Oct 5, [...]
[...] has acquired a customer relationship management startup Connected, the company announced on its website. Connected provides professionals and businesses with tools such as real-time [...]
Congrats, Team Connected. You built a great service. LinkedIn is lucky to get you.
Congrats Sachin and Ada! Thrilled for you guys!
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[...] A partir de ahora, los usuarios que deseemos formar parte de este servicio, podremos acceder a él de manera gratuita gracias a dicha adquisición. El anuncio oficial fue realizado en el web site de Connected: Connected Acquired by LinkedIn! [...]
[...] Meanwhile yesterday, Linked announced that it had purchased the one-year-old social CRM company Connected. An alternative to SalesForce, Connected’s set of tools lets users manage their contacts from Gmail, Google Contacts, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Share this:TwitterFacebookMoreStumbleUponDiggEmailRedditPrintLinkedInLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]
When BantamLive was acquired by Constant Contact, several months later the users were told they needed to find a new CRM while the two companies technically merged their products… is the same thing going to happen with Connected and LinkedIn?