# Jive Software

> Jive Software, now part of IgniteTech, supplies enterprise intranet and collaboration software that connects employees, discussions, documents and expertise. Its current Jive AI offering adds conversational content discovery and MyPersonas, digital representations of subject matter experts.

- **Founded:** 2001
- **Headquarters:** Austin, United States
- **Founders:** Matt Tucker (Co-founder; founding CTO), Bill Lynch (Co-founder; founding VP of Engineering)
- **Products:** Jive AI, Jive AI assistant / CoPilot, MyPersonas for Jive AI, Jive for Mobile, Support and professional services
- **Notable:** NASDAQ IPO in 2011., Series C attracted Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia in 2010., Pearson case study reported 75% employee adoption by the end of 2011.

## Products & services

- **Jive AI** — Enterprise collaboration platform with groups, discussions, content collaboration, personalized streams, analytics and mobile access.
- **Jive AI assistant / CoPilot** — Conversational discovery and summarization of text content, designed to observe existing Jive access permissions.
- **MyPersonas for Jive AI** — AI representations of experts that answer questions and escalate gaps to their human counterparts.
- **Jive for Mobile** — Mobile access to a Jive community; deployment and add-on requirements apply.
- **Support and professional services** — Technical support, implementation services and community management assistance; offerings vary by agreement.
- **Jive-x (historical)** — External customer and partner community business sold to Lithium in October 2017; not a current Jive product line.

## Achievements

- NASDAQ IPO in 2011.
- Series C attracted Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia in 2010.
- Pearson case study reported 75% employee adoption by the end of 2011.
- Acquired for approximately USD 462 million in 2017.

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — IgniteTech launched MyPersonas for Jive AI at the Financial Times Future of AI Conference.
- **2024-03** — Jive Personas was unveiled at ImagineAI Live in Las Vegas.
- **2023-07** — IgniteTech introduced Jive CoPilot for content summarization and question answering.
- **2023-05** — IgniteTech announced Jive’s addition to its product portfolio.

## Links

- Website: https://www.jivesoftware.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jive-software/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/JiveSoftware
- GitHub: https://github.com/jivesoftware
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jivesoftware/

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