Veeva Systems Inc. is an American
cloud-computing
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company focused on
pharmaceutical
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field and re ...
and
life sciences industry applications. Headquartered in
Pleasanton, California
Pleasanton is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. Located in the Amador Valley, it is a suburb in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 79,871 at the 2020 census. In 2005 and 2007, Pleasanton wa ...
, it was founded in 2007 by
Peter Gassner
Peter P. Gassner (born 1965) is the CEO and co-founder of Veeva, a company supporting processes in the pharmaceutical industry. With a net worth of US $5.25 billion, he is ranked 494th by ''Bloomberg'' on the list of billionaires worldwide. He i ...
and Matt Wallach. It works with
software as a service
Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software.
SaaS is con ...
(SaaS) in the life-science industry.
The company went public in 2013. As of May 5, 2022, it has a
market capitalization
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Market capitalization is equal to the market price per common share multiplied by t ...
of US$27.5 billion.
On February 1, 2021, Veeva became a
public benefit corporation. This made it the first publicly-traded company to convert to a public benefit corporation.
Acquisitions
In 2015, Veeva acquired Zinc Ahead, a
content management software company.
In 2019, Veeva acquired Crossix, a
privacy
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The domain of privacy partially overlaps with security, which can include the concepts of a ...
-safe
patient data and analytics company.
In 2019, Veeva acquired Physicians World LLC, a
pharmaceutical company
The pharmaceutical industry discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications to be administered to patients (or self-administered), with the aim to cure them, vaccinate them, or alleviate sympto ...
that provides
business process outsourcing
Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and ...
services.
In 2021, Veeva acquired Learnaboutgmp LLC, which provides
compliance training
Compliance training refers to the process of educating employees on laws, regulations and company policies that apply to their day-to-day job responsibilities. An organization that engages in compliance training typically hopes to accomplish sever ...
services for
life sciences organizations.
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Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Software companies established in 2007
American companies established in 2007
2007 establishments in California
Companies based in Pleasanton, California
Cloud computing providers
2013 initial public offerings
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Software companies of the United States
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