Bazaarvoice


Bazaarvoice is a technology company that provides software that allows brands and retailers to collect and display several types of authentic user-generated content on their e-commerce websites. The types of UGC include product ratings and reviews, shopper questions and answers, and curated social content.

History

Bazaarvoice was cofounded in 2005 by Brett Hurt and Brant Barton in Austin, Texas, which continues to be the location of the company’s headquarters today. In the years since, it has expanded globally to include offices in New York City, Chicago, Toronto, London, Munich, Belfast, Paris, Amsterdam, Vilnius, Sydney, and, most recently, Bengaluru. The company has over 800 global employees.
After going public on the NASDAQ in 2012, the company was taken private in 2018 after being purchased by Marlin Equity Partners.
The company has made a variety of acquisitions. The most recent include AddStructure, a natural language processing platform, in 2018, and Influenster, a product discovery and reviews platform with nearly six million community members worldwide, in 2019.