2009 headquarters berkeley ca united states and washington dc united states key people robert m. hoehn ceo products ideascale website ideascale.com ideascale is a cloud based software company that licenses an innovation management platform employing the principles and practices of crowdsourcing . 1 the company was founded by vivek bhaskaran 2 and rob hoehn in seattle 3 as of 2016 ideascale is headquartered in berkeley ca. 4 history edit in 2008 the ideascale service was first offered . 5 in 2009 rob hoehn enhanced the service to further address opportunities he cited in both government and the private sector to solicit ideas feedback and priorities . 6 it launched in tandem with president barack obama s open government initiative . 7 in its first year ideascale was adopted by 23 federal agencies . it served many organizations including the executive office of the president of the united states . 8 the following year the platform s adoption rate expanded to include more than 36 agencies as well as numerous private enterprise level companies . government clients cited ideascale s level of engagement as well as the platform s affordability as one of the reasons that it was adopted early on in the open government initiative . 9 as of 2014 ideascale had close to 4 million members and over 25 000 communities . 10 the company is privately held . it was bootstrapped without venture capital funding and has become profitable . 11 ideascale was also ranked 513 on the inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies . 12 and acquired ideavibes as part of its continued growth . 13 features edit users create a profile on ideascale and once they are members of a community they can submit ideas comment and vote on other ideas and the most popular ideas are prioritized at the top based on the number of votes the idea receives . 14 once a promising idea has been identified the software allows teams to form around the idea . the team can add more information to the idea refine it propose it to leadership and the best ones are selected using sophisticated decision matrix capabilities . 15 the company uses the freemium model of engagement offering free communities on an open basis and additional customized functionality to paying clients . 16 notes edit esposti carl oct 7 2010 . ideascale . crowdsourcing.org . retrieved february 3 2013 . gregory t huang . ideascale used for 24 government sites . brier dudley jan 20 2010 . seattle s ideascale tapped for obama feedback effort . seattle times . retrieved august 10 2015 . procter richard . ideascale s crowdsourcing platform lets customers give rich feedback to businesses governments . san francisco business times . san francisco business times . retrieved 13 february 2015 . crowdsourcing launch for survey analytics at daily research news online sept. 30 2008 hampton adriel september 8 2010 . crowdsourcing ideas and innovation in government . govfresh . retrieved february 3 2013 . herman justin september 15 2011 . opengov citizen engagement tool frequently asked questions for federal agencies . howto.gov . retrieved february 3 2013 . rao leena february 7 2010 . ideascale powers 23 crowdsourcing sites for the u.s. government . techcrunch . retrieved february 3 2013 . caine cristina december 15 2010 . uncle sam wants you crowdsourcing now . retrieved february 3 2013 . ideascale . about ideascale . ideascale . retrieved february 3 2013 . venge brian january 19 2011 . sbk020 are you listening to your customers . small biz kaizen . retrieved february 3 2013 . ideascale . inc. inc. retrieved 24 february 2015 . bronwen morgan . ideascale acquires crowdsourcing platform provider . research live . research live . retrieved 25 april 2014 . miles stephanie october 4 2010 . ideascale empower your customers . . appvita . retrieved february 3 2013 . ideascale launches idea incubation . crowdsourcing.org . retrieved 24 february 2015 . ideascale . ideascale pricing & signup . ideascale . retrieved february 3 2013 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ideascale & oldid 735010476 categories crowdsourcingsoftware companies based in the san francisco bay areacompanies established in 2009 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 add links this page was last modified on 18 august 2016 at 03 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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