Our Tech Startup Was Acquired

Our tech startup business was acquired. The acquisition was even reported on TechCrunch.

Sweet.

UserEvents first took life when its (then soon-to-be) founder and CEO pitched me the idea at a coffee shop in Fredericton, Canada.

UserEvents was acquired by LiveOps, as they announced yesterday.

I formed the software technology company with Jeff Thompson and Trevor Bernard in 2012.

My role as CTO of UserEvents was, as per my LinkedIn profile:

Co-founded company; architected, designed, and developed software requiring a deep understanding of computing; conceptualized and implemented a highly available system to process huge data volumes in real time; custom-made distributed in-memory storage systems; created patentable computing systems; supervised graduate-level research projects; attracted technical talent.

The UserEvents engine was written in the Haskell programming language.

Here are press articles about the acquisition and about the technology that we created at UserEvents:

• LiveOps raises $30M, buys Canadian company, to expand call center offerings - Silicon Valley Business Journal

• LiveOps raises $30M, acquires CxEngage so you won’t suck at customer service - VentureBeat

• LiveOps Acquires UserEvents to Bring Real-Time, Contextual Routing to the Cloud Contact Center - BusinessWire

• LiveOps Raises Another $30M, Acquires UserEvents To Expand Its Cloud Contact Center Platform

• Original version of this article