500friends, a Merkle Company is a leader in customer loyalty marketing solutions. Clients depend on 500friends to help them develop and execute a differentiated and impactful customer loyalty strategy that delivers the business results they expect. The end-to-end loyalty services 500friends offers include strategic consulting, a SaaS platform named LoyaltyPlus, platform integration, program management and support, and analytics. 500friends was named a leader and received the highest overall score in Forrester's Wave for Customer Loyalty Solutions for Midmarket Q1 2016. According to Forrester, "clients praise both the platform and the people. Specifically, they like LoyaltyPlus’s flexibility and ease of use, and indicate that implementations are typically on-time and on-budget."
500friends is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and is a Merkle company. Merkle is a data-driven, technology-enabled performance marketing agency and also the nation’s largest privately-held agency. This combination creates the industry’s most robust loyalty resource for our clients, based on the synergies of 500friends’ platform with Merkle’s industry-leading practices in data strategies, 1st & 3rd party data linkage, and predictive analytics. Learn more at www.500friends.com.
500friends is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and is a Merkle company. Merkle is a data-driven, technology-enabled performance marketing agency and also the nation’s largest privately-held agency. This combination creates the industry’s most robust loyalty resource for our clients, based on the synergies of 500friends’ platform with Merkle’s industry-leading practices in data strategies, 1st & 3rd party data linkage, and predictive analytics. Learn more at www.500friends.com.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $10.9M
Founded date: 2010
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| 21.07.2020 | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| - | Wasabi Ven... | partners.w... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 12.03.2013 | Series B | $5M | Fung Capit... |
| 16.03.2012 | Series A | $5.9M | - |
Mentions in press and media 17
| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.11.2014 | Merkle acquires SF-based 500friends [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting funded? UM Ventures, a unit of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, made its first investment in Harpoon Medical, as Technical.ly Baltimore reported. The Stevensville firm recently won a patent for a device that coul... |
| 18.11.2014 | Merkle Acquires Loyalty Startup 500friends | Customer relationship management company Merkle announced today that it has acquired startup 500friends. The startup’s LoyaltyPlus platform allows businesses to run customer loyalty programs in stores, online, and on mobile. It also allows ... |
| 12.03.2013 | 500friends gets $5M to tell you who your best customers are — online and in-store | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! 500friends is in the business of making you money... |
| 12.03.2013 | 500friends Makes Friends with $5M Series B | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Startup that helps retailers manage their customer loyalty programs, is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding. >> Click here for more funding data on 500friends >> To export 500frien... |
| 12.03.2013 | 500friends Raises $5M in Series B Funding | 500friends, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of loyalty and lifecycle marketing solutions, raised $5m in Series B funding. The round was led by existing investor Intel Capital and new investor Fung Capital, with participation from returni... |
| 12.03.2013 | 500friends Raises $5M To Bring Its Online Loyalty Programs To Physical Stores | 500friends, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps retailers manage their customer loyalty programs, is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by existing investor Intel Capital and new investor... |
| 10.08.2012 | Founders, beware! 500friends will catch your developers with seed capital bait | To reference Marilyn Monroe, a good developer is hard to find. Which is why startup 500friends is deploying a disruptive new recruiting strategy to lure the most talented developers out there. 500friends posted a call for “entrepreneurial h... |
| 05.07.2012 | 500Friends Predicts And Rewards Big Retailers’ Most Valuable Customers | Not all customers are created equal — that’s the idea behind a new product from Y Combinator-backed loyalty startup 500Friends. The company already allowed businesses to reward customers for activity like referring friends, writing reviews,... |
| 16.03.2012 | 500Friends (YC W10) Raises $4.5M Series A For Its Social Loyalty Platform | 500Friends, the social loyalty solution for e-commerce retailers, is announcing it has completed a $4.5 million Series A round led by Crosslink Capital, with participation from Intel Capital as well as company CEO (and angel investor) Justi... |
| 15.03.2012 | 500friends Completes $4.5M Series A Financing | 500friends, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based provider of social loyalty solutions for e-commerce retailers, has completed a $4.5m Series A financing. The round was led by Crosslink Capital, with participation from Intel Capital and members o... |
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