Globant - Timeline

Timeline

  • 2003: Globant started operations with own funded capital.
  • 2005: Globant opened its second Development Center in Buenos Aires. The company was also named Endeavor Entrepreneur 2005 was recognized as the Best Services Exporter by Export. Ar. The Sloan School of Management of the MIT wrote a case about Globant called: "Leading the IT Revolution in Latin America".
  • 2006: Globant opened its development center in the city of Tandil, Argentina.
  • 2007: Globant certified CMMI level 3. The company was recognized as the Top Emerging Global Services Provider, by Global Services Magazine.

Globant opened offices in the city of La Plata, Argentina; and expanded its operations also in the US (Palo Alto). Globant founded Fonalix with BGH, a company that provides IP Telephony Solutions for small and medium business in Latin America.

  • 2008: The research company IDC pointed Globant as one of the growing companies in Latin America in its study "Latin American Predictions 2008". Globant Acquires Accendra, an Argentine Software Company with 100 employees adding operations in Chile and Colombia. In December, Globant closed its third financing round of USD13MM with Riverwood Capital and FTV Capital. It also acquired Openware, an Argentine company specialized in Security & Infrastructure Management. Globant's team of Globers reached the 1000 professionals
  • 2009: Globant received two teams from the Global Entrepreneurship lab from the MIT, to study the M&A strategy and the Globant University Project.
  • 2010: Globant was awarded with the AlwaysON 250 award for creating technology innovations for the Global Silicon Valley, in the Cloud and Infrastructure Category. It was also named Cool Vendor by Gartner, in the Cool Vendors in Business Process Services 2010 report by Gartner, Inc. During this year, Globant also reorganized itself and launched 8 studios, each one specializing in a different vertical, practice or industry. They are: Gaming Studio, Big Data & High Performance Studio, Consumer Experience Studio, Enterprise Consumerization Studio, Creative & Social Studio, Cloud Computing & Infrastructure Studio, Mobile and Quality Engineering Studio.
  • 2011: Globant acquired San Francisco-based Nextive, company specialized in the development of mobile solutions

Read more about this topic:  Globant