Epiphany, Inc.
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software, Customer relationship management |
| Founder | Steve Blank, Ben Wegbreit, Greg Walsh, John P. McCaskey |
| Defunct | 2005 |
| Fate | Acquired by SSA Global Technologies |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto , United States |
| Products | Customer relationship management software |
Epiphany, Inc. (traded on NASDAQ under the ticker EPNY), previously recognized as E.piphany and Epiphany Marketing Software, specialized in creating customer relationship management (CRM) software solutions. On September 29, 2005, SSA Global Technologies completed its acquisition of Epiphany. The CRM products originally developed by Epiphany are currently offered by Infor, following Infor's acquisition of SSA Global in 2006.
The company's founding members included Steve Blank, Ben Wegbreit, Greg Walsh, and John P. McCaskey. Leadership also featured chairman Roger Siboni, CFO Kevin Yeaman—who later became CEO at Dolby Laboratories—and CEO Karen Richardson. Among the distinguished former staff who have made significant strides in the technology sector are Craig Weissman (previously chief architect and CTO at Salesforce), Scott Hansma (Salesforce chief architect), Sridhar Ramaswamy (ex-VP of Ads at Google), Ben Treynor and Boris Debic (operations executives who continued their careers at Google), as well as Mehran Sahami, an instrumental figure in developing Epiphany’s machine learning framework that became a cornerstone for Google's advertising platform.
Additional notable alumni encompass Jon Miller, Phil Fernandez, and David Morandi—founders of Marketo; Jon Miller alongside Brian Babcock, founders of Engagio; George John, founder and CEO of Rocket Fuel Inc.; and Jeremy Rassen, co-founder and President of Aetion.
Following their tenure at Epiphany, Sahami and Debic pursued academic roles teaching artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Steve Blank is engaged in entrepreneurship instruction at Stanford University and Columbia University.