SilkRoad, Inc. is an American multinational human capital management software company. SilkRoad provides cloud-based HR software solutions that enable customers to find, attract, develop, and retain talent. SilkRoad is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and has regional offices around the world. The company has more than 1800 corporate clients, that are primarily small-to-medium sized businesses, and larger clients including Accenture, IBM, eBay, L'Oréal, and Clear Channel Communications.
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History
SilkRoad, Inc. was founded in North Carolina in 2003 by Andrew "Flip" Filipowski with Eprise, and launched at HR Tech show in Chicago in 2005.
SilkRoad acquired OpenHire, based in Winston-Salem in 2004.
SilkRoad acquired VTN Technologies, Inc., a company known for its Olé Online Learning Environment training software, in 2008, and had raised $54 million in Series C funding by this year. The company also opened offices in Asia and the Pacific Rim.
The company headquarters relocated to Chicago in 2010, but the Winston-Salem location is still a design and development center.
Investors include Foundation Capital, Azure Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Intel Capital, Keating Capital, and Crosslink Ventures. In May 2012, SilkRoad announced it had secured $35 million financing in a Series C Round. In August 2013, SilkRoad secured another $16 million, bringing its total funding to $145 million. In May 2015, SilkRoad secured another loan for $7.5 million, bringing its total funding to $152.5 million.
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Products
SilkRoad's LifeSuite is composed of six integrated talent management applications that provide talent acquisition, talent development and HRMS functionality:
Awards
- SIIA CODiE Award (2010 Winner; 2012, 2013 Finalist)
- OnDemand 100 Top Private Companies (2013)
- Stevie Awards: Sales & Customer Service (Bronze Winner, Back Office Customer Service Team of the Year, 2013, Bronze Winner for Innovation in Customer Service, 2012, Stevie Award Winner, Relationship Management Solution Ð New, 2011)
- Best in Biz Award
- Netexplo 2012 award for Digital Innovation (Netexplo 2012 - award winners) (SilkRoad technology Receives netexplo 2012 Award for Digital Innovation)
- HRO Today magazine's TekTonic winner in Learning for 2012 for the Greenlight product
- Brandon Hall silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology category for the integration of the SilkRoad learning management software GreenLight® with the company's Point(TM) social talent management software.
- Brandon Hall bronze award for excellence in Best Advance in Talent Acquisition Technology for OpenHire.
- Red Herring Top 100 North America
- #4 on The Business Journal's list of the Triad's 50 Top-Performing Private Companies
Partnerships
Broadbean Technology, Concur Technologies, Deltek, Fidelity Investments HR/PR Services, Indeed, LexisNexis, Monster.com, NetSuite, NETtime Solutions, Nobscot, PayScale, Simply Hired, Talent Technology, TheLadders.com,
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