{"id":3593,"date":"2012-09-12T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2359275"},"modified":"2012-09-12T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T16:46:00","slug":"zendesk-pulls-in-60-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/zendesk-pulls-in-60-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Zendesk Pulls in $60 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zendesk, the cloud-based help desk, has gotten $60 million in added financing split between $45 million in equity and $15 million in debt.<br \/>\nThat gives it a total of $70.5 million in equity backing since it started in 2007.<br \/>\nRedpoint Ventures led the D round. New investors include Index Ventures, GGV Capital and Goldman Sachs. Existing investors Charles River Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners also kicked in.<br \/>\nSilicon Valley Bank is providing the debt financing.<br \/>\nThe start-up wanted the money for global expansion, talent and development. It\u2019s rebuilding its widgetry from the ground up but will reportedly keep the old application around to placate customers who hate change. The remake will tie into third-party systems like Salesforce. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2359275\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zendesk, the cloud-based help desk, has gotten $60 million in added financing split between $45 million in equity and $15 million in debt.<br \/>\nThat gives it a total of $70.5 million in equity backing since it started in 2007.<br \/>\nRedpoint Ventures led the D &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}