IPO Case Study

Oakstone international’s expertise is strategically positioning ambitious companies to attract hard to reach professionals. We have worked with companies from their start-up phase, right until their IPO stage and beyond. Here are just a few of the companies we have assisted that have reached IPO stage.

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Company Description: Business Spend Management Gartner and Forrester leader

Date Founded: 2006

Total Funding: $219M

Oakstone: Oakstone started working with this company in 2013, hiring their first person on the ground in EMEA and continued to assist their expansion of the EMEA team rapidly. Oakstone has since helped this company hire over 90+ people globally.

Company Awards:

• Named Fast Company’s 2021 List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies

• Named Built In’s 100 Best Large Companies to Work For

• Named Fortune’s Best Medium Workplaces 2020 

Date IPO: October 2016

Where are they now? This company is continuing its growth globally by hiring in all regions. They continue to lead in the spend management field, featuring as leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester reports. Oakstone continues to support and assist in this company’s talent acquisition.

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Company Description: Human Capital Management (SaaS)

Date Founded: 2001

Total Funding: $15.6M

Oakstone: Oakstone assisted this company hire predominantly in UK and EMEA, hiring the EMEA VP, Regional Director in the UK and multiple sales and business development people. Oakstone proceeded to make all the placements in the UK sales team in the first 12 months of our partnership.

When the company subsequently rebuilt their internal recruitment team, the strategic and often exclusive agreement with Oakstone remained in place, and to this day Oakstone works alongside this team, complimenting them on specific hires.

Date IPO: November 2007

Company Awards:

• Top-rated product teams in 2017

• Top 15% rated CEO in 2016

Where are they now? They were acquired in 2011 by SAP for $1B.

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Company Description: Big Data Gartner and Forrester Leader (SaaS)

Date Founded: 2002

Total Funding: $1B

Oakstone: Oakstone started working with this company in 2012, hiring their first major account director based in the UK and EMEA Business Director. Oakstone has supported this company hire predominantly in EMEA to expand and grow their presence in the region.

Date IPO: September 2019

Company Awards:

• 2021 Fortune World's Most Admired Companies

• People Companies That Care 2021

• Fortune’s 2021 100 Best Companies To Work

Where are they now? Their latest funding round was raised on Jun 22, 2021, from a Post-IPO Equity round. They were recently named a leader in the 2021 Gartner SIEM Magic Quadrant for the eighth time. They are continuing to grow and hire globally.