Indix was a company based in
Seattle, Washington
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, in the
United States
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that was offering a
cloud-based product information platform. It also built a broad and deep product catalog to enable mobile and desktop apps and websites to become product-aware. Indix provided access to
API
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s that enable developers to build product-aware applications. The big data startup was headquartered in
Seattle
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with a product development office in
Chennai
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and was founded in 2010 by former
Microsoft
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executive
Sanjay Parthasarathy.
Background
Indix's CEO and founder is Sanjay Parthasarathy.
Parthasarathy left Microsoft in 2009, where he worked for 19 years in an executive capacity, notably starting and running the company's Developer & Platform Evangelism Division from 2000 to 2007.
On retiring from Microsoft, he moved his family to
India
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where he intended to launch a software company that would tackle key business problems facing companies in the changing world of commerce.
The company raised a successful angel investment round in the spring of 2012 and Parthasarathy subsequently established its headquarters in
Seattle
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.
Other co-founders of Indix include Sridhar Venkatesh, Rajesh Muppalla, Satya Kaliki and Jonah Stephen Jermiah.
Indix was acquired by Avalara, a provider of tax compliance automation software on February 6, 2019.
Services
Indix's services are centered on