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Since its inception 10 years ago and its creation on Jan. 31, 2007, CALINDA SOFTWARE achieved major milestones in its development... 1999Alex has the original idea of MindUP to answer to his team's needs at Sun in Palo Alto, Calif. 2002The need is confirmed in several other companies and by many professionals. Seb garhers a technical team to develop a prototype Prospects and partners confirm the potential of the concept 2005Seb starts working full time on the development Alex becomes the Engineering Director of Bee Ware to perfect his management skills at an executive level in relationship with major investors He meets Chris Guyard, CEO of Bee Ware, Founder of Axians, who will become Calinda's Co-Founder 2006A market study on the field in Paris, Geneva and Provence confirms the potential of the concept and the requirement to improve integration of the product with e-mail applications and the need to protect intellectual property 2007Company started, patent filed, pilot projects and first customers First reselling and technology partners Fundings raised from Business Angels, Banks and Regional aids 2008"Most Disruptive Innovation" award raises interest from the press and private investors Decision to raise funds to follow a indirect selling strategy with consultancies and large software makers in the fiels on a customer case by case basis First partnerships with consultancies who use MindUP in their customer projects and resell it. First large customer projects in partnership with MICROSOFT First Clusters become customers of MindUP Clusters and make it available to the R&D departments of many companies at once 2009Hiring of a Sales Manager based in Paris Partnership with IBM Finalist of Innovate!Europe as one of the TOP 10 European start-ups. Microsoft selects Calinda as one of the TOP 15 best start-ups in Europe to participate in the European Investor Summit in Prague Release of MindUP for SharePoint Contracts with large French companies Creation of a SaaS business model and a revolutionary pricing models based on measured gains Admission in the Microsoft BizSpark One program as one of the world's most promising start-ups. Microsoft provides technical, sales and marketing direct support 2010Opening of the Paris office New MindUP for SharePoint Site Licensing model to make MindUP available broadly at neglectible costs Internationalization of the Calinda patent 2nd prize of the world's best SharePoint 2010 application at the SharePoint 2010 SocialFest organized by Microsoft in California |