Pipedrive among FT Europe's 1000 fastest growing companies

• Company that innovated first CRM platform developed from the salesperson's point of view included in 2019 FT 1000 list

TALLINN, Estonia, April 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Pipedrive, the first CRM platform developed from the salesperson's point of view, today announced that it has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in Europe within the 2019 FT 1000 report. Pipedrive is ranked at 168 and is one of only three Estonian-founded companies honored in the report.

Published by the Financial Times in partnership with Statista, the FT 1000 2019 report lists the companies in 31 European countries that have achieved the highest annual growth rates in revenue between 2014 and 2017.

Timo Rein, CEO of Pipedrive, comments, "We are humbled by this recognition. This achievement was made possible, first and foremost, by our people who are relentlessly dedicated to providing sales teams with intuitive, powerful, visual 'sales software as a service.' Pipedrive was built by sales people for sales people -- and developed from the salesperson's point of view. At Pipedrive, we focus on daily improvement by listening to our customers and anticipating their needs. To listen, anticipate and take action -- that takes great people."

Pipedrive is the first CRM platform developed from the salesperson's point of view. Pipedrive's goal is to make sales success inevitable - for individual salespeople and teams.

About the FT 1000 Criteria:
To be included in the list of fastest growing companies in ;Europe, a company had to meet the following criteria:

• Revenue of at least €100,000 generated in 2014
• Revenue of at least €1.5m generated in 2017
• The company is independent (the company is not a subsidiary or branch office of any kind)
• The company is headquartered in one of 32 European countries
• The revenue growth between 2014 and 2017 was primarily organic (e.g. "internally" stimulated)

Companies from these countries were eligible to participate: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

About Pipedrive

Pipedrive is the weapon of choice for salespeople in scaling companies – the sales CRM pipeline platform that makes selling simple. Pipedrive keeps things moving, stops tasks falling through the cracks and kills the tedium of admin. Pipedrive ensures that sales activities remain targeted, ambitious and realistic. Today, over 100,000 customers in 170 countries, and across 100+ industries leverage Pipedrives’ award-winning software to manage their sales process.

Founded by seasoned sales professionals, Pipedrive launched in 2010. It is one of the fastest growing cloud-driven SaaS companies worldwide, having raised $80m in funding from investors including DTCP, Atomico, Insight Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Paua Ventures.