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Cvent to Acquire QuickMobile to Broaden Its Mobile Event App Capabilities
Cvent (News - Alert), Inc., a market leader in meetings, events, and hospitality
technology, today announced its intent to acquire QuickMobile, a pioneer
of mobile event apps, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The
acquisition of QuickMobile, with its 100 employees, will broaden and
deepen Cvent's already world-class mobile event app and onsite solution
capabilities and help the company extend its reach in the marketplace
through QuickMobile's extensive partner network. The acquisition is
expected to close before the end of May 2018.
Mobile event apps are an integral part of the live event experience,
facilitating - and capturing - engagement that leads to higher event
ROI. By acquiring QuickMobile, Cvent is deepening its commitment to the
critically important attendee onsite experience and further broadening
its market-leading capabilities.
QuickMobile and Cvent will support the mobile app needs of events of all
sizes - including the most complex events hosted by the largest brands
in the world.
Together, the combined entity:
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Serves more than 25,500 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 100
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Has delivered 16.7 million app downloads
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Is committed to driving innovation in mobile event apps and event
technology with nearly 1,100 research and development resources
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Offers over 950 product support professionals to ensure customer
success
"Cvent and QuickMobile are innovators in the mobile event apps space and
share a passion for enhancing our customers' live events through mobile
apps that deliver engaging experiences," said David Smith (News - Alert), CEO of
QuickMobile. "We couldn't envision a better fit for QuickMobile than
joining the team at Cvent, a market leader with global reach and scale.
We have a shared commitment to develop employees, drive innovation, and
deliver exceptional value for our customers."
"We are extremely excited to add QuickMobile to the Cvent family," said
Reggie Aggarwal (News - Alert), founder and CEO of Cvent. "QuickMobile's track record
of innovation, strong customer relationships, and winning culture fit
perfectly with Cvent. We will be laser-focused on continuing to deliver
value for QuickMobile customers and look forward to adding the best of
QuickMobile's capabilities and expertise to the Cvent Event Cloud
platform. We are also thrilled to welcome the talented QuickMobile team
to our 3,000+ Cventers worldwide. Together, we will execute on the
mission of delivering cutting-edge mobile event applications that
transform live events."
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About Cvent
Cvent, Inc. is a leading cloud-based enterprise event management company
with more than 25,000 customers, 300,000 users, and 3,000 employees
worldwide. Cvent offers software solutions to event planners for online
event registration, venue selection, event management, mobile apps for
events, email marketing, and web surveys. Cvent provides hoteliers with
an integrated platform, enabling properties to increase group business
demand through targeted advertising and improve conversion through
proprietary demand management and business intelligence solutions. Cvent
solutions optimize the entire event management value chain and have
enabled clients around the world to manage hundreds of thousands of
meetings and events. For more information, please visit Cvent.com,
or connect with us on Facebook,
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LinkedIn.
About QuickMobile
Designed for today's mobile-savvy attendee, QuickMobile's mobile app and
analytics platform creates meaningful and lasting experiences.
QuickMobile helps its customers deliver personalized, productive and
fully-integrated events and meetings-across the enterprise and
beyond-that captivate and engage attendees. QuickMobile has helped
thousands of high-performance organizations around the world transform
their meetings and events. QuickMobile's head office is located in
Vancouver, Canada.
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