Ryan McDonough
Founder, Sometime Artist
CFO and co-founder @Accompany, acquired by @Cisco. Turnaround CFO @Ning, sold to Glam Media. Former seed VC. McKinsey trained. @Wharton School and @Haas School of Business.
Founded in 2013, Accompany was a relationship intelligence platform that developed real-time profiles for hundreds of millions of professional and companies. It was acquired in 2018 by Cisco Systems.
Accompany 2013-2018
Wish you had someone working through the night, constantly looking out for you, searching for information to make your days run more smoothly? Accompany delivers all your people and company research right to you so you can be ready for anything.
Anytime we detect someone new in your calendar, you’ll get an Executive Briefing delivered right to your inbox while you sleep. Everything you need to get up to speed, including professional history, relevant news, and key info on their company, is at your fingertips.
So busy in back-to-back meetings you literally don’t even have time to use the bathroom? We get it. Let us help you get up to speed fast with everything you need on the person waiting for you in that conference room.
Wish you had a horde of research analysts at your beck and call, waiting to serve you the latest insights on the companies that pique your interest? Financials, quarterly reports, and SEC filings are never more than a tap away.
Real time news feeds custom built around your contacts and the companies you care about. We’re talking about high signal to noise, objective news with no cat videos and no ads.
Are you drowning in email? The least we can do is throw you a life jacket. Let us help you figure out which emails even warrant a reply by showing you who those people are.
e.g., Who are the superconnectors in this prospect’s org who have shown more openness/propensity toward external tooling and ideas.
e.g., Find executives in Chicago, who are female, who have expressed an interest in socially-conscious investing or retirement planning.
e.g., As soon as your client joins that new board, we send you a notification so you can be the first to say congrats.
On May 10th, 2018 Cisco announced the close of its acquisition of Accompani, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Los Altos, CA with an office in Portland, OR and does business under the name of “Accompany.”
Accompany develops a relationship intelligence platform and has built one of the richest databases of decision makers in the world. Their solutions are AI-driven and are designed to help users stay up to date on executive and company news for the purposes of prospecting, selling and relationship building.
Amy Chang, Accompany founder and CEO is now Cisco’s SVP for the Collaboration Technology Group, and as part of that move, she resigned from Cisco’s Board of Directors at time of announce.
Accompany technology provides Cisco’s Collaboration portfolio with relationship intelligence capabilities and talent. Accompany’s technology will help enhance the Cisco Webex platform and suite of services by adding intelligence and contextual user information into meeting and team collaboration experiences. This application can also potentially be extended into the Customer Journey solutions portfolio enabling customer service teams to have better insights on customers prior to their interactions.
The acquisition of Accompany will enable Cisco to utilize expert AI technology and talent to accelerate development across the collaboration portfolio. Upon completion of the transaction, Accompany employees will join Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group under Amy’s leadership.
Cisco announces intent to acquire Accompany. @_Amychang will join Cisco to lead the Collaboration Technology Group. https://t.co/2Hs0w6K09t
— Cisco (@Cisco) May 1, 2018
@accompany the only way to celebrate! Giant giant champagne times two!!! Huge thanks to @CRV and @devdutt pic.twitter.com/IDWf2NFsCJ
— Amy Chang (@_amychang) May 1, 2018
@accompany celebrating!!!!! Best team ever!!! pic.twitter.com/ylW6SHbnRy
— Amy Chang (@_amychang) May 1, 2018
