business discovery business analysis software company founded 1993 headquarters radnor pennsylvania key people lars bj rk ceo tim maccarrick cfo anthony deighton cto svp products diane adams chief people officer rick jackson cmo products qlikview qlik sense expressor nprinting number of employees 2 500 october 2015 citation needed website http qlik.com qlik is a software company based in radnor pennsylvania united states . qlik is the provider of qlikview and qlik sense business intelligence & visualization software . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit qlik previously known as qliktech was founded in lund sweden in 1993 as a software company in business intelligence bi . 1 its pc based desktop tool was called quikview . quik stood for quality understanding interaction knowledge . initially the software was sold only in sweden . 2 m ns hultman became ceo in 2000 and lars bj rk became cfo . the company focused on the area of business intelligence bi growing from 35 employees in 1999 to 70 in 2003 . at that point qliktech needed more capital and a broader vision to continue its growth . to that end qliktech selected a syndicate consisting of venture capital firms accel partners and jerusalem venture partners jvp and raised 12.5 million in capital 3 alex ott of accel and erel margalit of jvp devised a growth strategy that resulted in a 35 % annual growth rate and 13 million in revenue by 2004 . 4 in 2005 the single user desktop tool was replaced with a server based web tool . 5 qlik established partnerships with intel and hp and incorporated charts and colors in their ui . qlik customers include db schenker dendrite ericsson and the swedish post . in 2007 lars bj rk became qlik s ceo . the company claims a user base of 34 000 customers in 100 countries . 6 the company held an initial public offering in july 2010 . as of april 2011 the company had a market capitalization over 2 billion . 7 in 2013 the company opened an office in western australia . 8 in august 2015 the company expanded its r & d operations by opening an office in ottawa canada . 9 announced in june 2016 qlik agreed to sell itself to private equity firm thoma bravo llc for about 3 billion . 10 see also edit business discovery references edit qlik.com jvp makes 4 000 % return on qliktech archived december 3 2013 at the wayback machine . qliktech secures 12.5 million venture capital funding jvp sells holding in qlik technologies for 112 million archived december 30 2011 at the wayback machine . jvp makes 4 000 % return on qliktech archived december 3 2013 at the wayback machine . qlikview customers . jvp venture capital . about . 2011 02 05 . qliktech new appointment new wa office qlik opens first canadian r & d office in kanata by author reuters . thoma bravo to buy analytics firm qlik in 3 billion deal . june 2 2016 . june 2 2016 . external links edit official website qliktech ceo lars bj rk on surfing the deluge of data retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title qlik & oldid 730842502 categories software companies based in pennsylvaniasoftware companies of swedencompanies based in pennsylvaniabusiness intelligence companiescompanies listed on nasdaqhidden categories articles with wayback machine linksall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2015official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschitalianopolski svenska edit links this page was last modified on 21 july 2016 at 11 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view