Mindjet is a

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and innovation management software company headquartered in

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. Mindjet's software products, including its flagship product

MindManager MindManager is a commercial mind mapping software application developed by Mindjet. The software provides ways for users to visualize information in mind maps and flowcharts. MindManager can be used to manage projects, organize information, and ...

and SpigitEngage, are designed to visually and collaboratively manage information and tasks. , Mindjet had approximately sixteen million users.

Company history

Mindjet was founded in 1998 by computer programmer Mike Jetter and his wife, Bettina Jetter, in order to support the development of their

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ping software, MindManager. Jetter conceived of the idea for the first product while recovering from an illness in hospital, and began developing the program while living in Germany in 1994, aiming to simplify the creation and sharing of mind maps for business users. In August 2001, Mindjet received approximately $5 million in

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from

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-based investment group 3i, which the company used to market MindManager in the U.S. and Europe. Scott Raskin, the former

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for

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, was named

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of Mindjet in 2006. In 2011, the company acquired Thinking Space, an Android-based information mapping application, and Cohuman, a social

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service. The acquisition of Cohuman enabled Mindjet to launch a new collaborative working service called Mindjet Connect on September 22, 2011. Mindjet had 270 employees. The company's headquarters are located in San Francisco; it also has offices in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The company is led by a board of directors including founder Mike Jetter, managing director of Investor Growth Capital, Noah Walley, and former

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CEO, Jeremy Jaech. In 2013, Mindjet acquired innovation management company Spigit, and adopted their software product SpigitEngage into their product suite.

Products and services

Mindjet develops

and innovation management software for

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and

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, and for both

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and Android mobile devices. Until 2012, the company's products focused on

ping, collaboration and project management. The company's MindManage displayed information in mind maps using colors, words, images and spatial relationships. Following the acquisition of Cohuman in 2011, Mindjet launched Mindjet Connect, a

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service for collaborative working. In December 2011, Mindjet reported 350,000 downloads for its

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app and 1.1 million downloads for its Android-based app. In September 2012, the company combined its existing products into a single product named , Mindjet and changed from a purchase-based model to a subscription-based model. N In September 2013, Mindjet acquired

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–based startup Spigit, and added their SpigitEngage enterprise innovation management software to the Mindjet product suite.

References

External links

Official Mindjet website

Official Mindjet blog
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