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Mikkel Svane

Zendesk
San Francisco, United States
Mikkel Svane co-founded Zendesk in Copenhagen in 2007 in a converted loft, building customer support software that was delightfully simple compared to incumbent offerings. Zendesk went public in 2014, was taken private by a private equity consortium in 2022 for $10.2 billion. Svane is the author of Startupland, a memoir about building a global company from Copenhagen to San Francisco. He remains engaged in the European startup ecosystem and startup advisory.
Customer Support / SaaS

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Zendesk is a customer service and engagement platform offering help desk software, live chat, ticketing, call center tools, and CRM for businesses of all sizes across more than 100,000 accounts.

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