Aha! is a cloud-based software company that provides product development software for companies in the United States and internationally. Aha! offers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products for organizations to set strategy, ideate, plan, showcase, build, and launch new products and enhancements. The Aha! suite of products cater to Product managers (PMs), engineers, and product development teams involved in innovation management programs, portfolio management, product marketing, and operations. These tools aim to streamline the process of bringing ideas from concept to market. As of 2023, more than 700,000 product builders reportedly use the Aha! suite of products.

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Aha! is a software suite designed to support users in their approach to developing and delivering products and services. The suite includes tools such as Aha! Roadmaps, Aha! Ideas, Aha! Notebooks, Aha! Develop, and Aha! Academy. The platform aims to facilitate the product development process, offering functionalities that allow teams to collaboratively conceptualize, capture ideas, devise product strategies, manage agile development, and introduce new features to the market. Aha! claim their software enables users to establish links between strategic goals and tasks, create visual roadmaps outlining future plans, and monitor business objectives during product management and development. Aha! offers integration with Jira, GitHub, Azure DevOps Server, Pivotal Tracker, Trello, FogBugz
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History

Aha! is a self-funded, private company, founded by Brian de Haaff and Dr. Chris Waters in the spring of 2013 in Menlo Park, California. They have no centralized headquarters, and employees remotely work from the United States and some international locations. In 2017, Aha! co-founder and CEO Brian de Haaff released the book ''Lovability'', sharing his philosophy on building businesses and products''.'' In 2019 and 2020, Aha! expanded their roadmapping software to target marketing, IT, services, project management, and business operations users. In October 2020, Aha! launched Aha! Ideas, aiming to give teams a way to crowdsource ideas from customers, employees, and partners into their product plans. In May 2021, the company released Aha! Develop, an agile development tool for engineering teams. In 2022, Aha! introduced a digital notebook for product builders. Aha! Notebooks aims to give teams the ability to collaborate on documentation and concepts. The company also announced that they surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and launche
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Recognition

Aha! has been included on several employee satisfaction lists, including Forbes, LinkedIn, and WeWorkRemotely. In 2018, Aha! was #143 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S and #13 of all software companies. Aha! also ranked #50 on Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500 and in the top 100 on Forbes' 2021 list of best startups. In 2022, Fortune featured Aha! in an article about how to bootstrap over accepting outside funding. Forbes Advisor named Aha! software as “Best for roadmapping” in its roundup of The Best Business Plan Software of 2023.

References

* Bridgwater, Adrian (2013-08-17
"Aha! Launches Roadmapping With Extra Mojo"
Dr. Dobbs. Retrieved 2014-09-08 * Forman, Aaron (2014-03-04
"Atlassian launches Atlassian Connect with Aha!"
Atlassian Blog. Retrieved 2014-09-08 * IDG Connect (2013-08-13
"Aha! streamlines development with cloud-based project management platform"
IDG Connect. Retrieved 2014-09-08

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.aha.io Companies based in Silicon Valley Companies based in Menlo Park, California Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Software companies established in 2013 2013 establishments in California Privately held companies based in California Software companies of the United States American companies established in 2013

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