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In September 2013, Mindjet acquired Pleasanton, California–based startup Spigit, and added their SpigitEngage enterprise innovation management software to the Mindjet product suite. In September 2012, the company combined its existing products into a single product named |Mindjet and changed from a purchase-based model to a subscription-based model. In December 2011, Mindjet reported 350,000 downloads for its iOS app and 1.1 million downloads for its Android-based app. Following the acquisition of Cohuman in 2011, Mindjet launched Mindjet Connect, a cloud-based service for collaborative working. The company's MindManage displayed information in mind maps using colors, words, images and spatial relationships. Until 2012, the company's products focused on mind mapping, collaboration and project management. Mindjet develops mind mapping and innovation management software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, and for both Apple iOS and Android mobile devices. In 2013, Mindjet acquired innovation management company Spigit, and adopted their software product SpigitEngage into their product suite. The company is led by a board of directors including founder Mike Jetter, managing director of Investor Growth Capital, Noah Walley, and former Visio Corporation CEO, Jeremy Jaech. The company's headquarters are located in San Francisco it also has offices in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Īs of December 2011 Mindjet had 270 employees. The acquisition of Cohuman enabled Mindjet to launch a new collaborative working service called Mindjet Connect on September 22, 2011.
In 2011, the company acquired Thinking Space, an Android-based information mapping application, and Cohuman, a social task management service. Scott Raskin, the former chief operating officer for Telelogic, was named CEO of Mindjet in 2006. In August 2001, Mindjet received approximately $5 million in venture capital from London-based investment group 3i, which the company used to market MindManager in the U.S.
Jetter conceived of the idea for the first product while recovering from an illness in hospital, and began developing the program while living in Germany in 1994, aiming to simplify the creation and sharing of mind maps for business users. Mindjet was founded in 1998 by computer programmer Mike Jetter and his wife, Bettina Jetter, in order to support the development of their mind mapping software, MindManager.