Software

AVG Corporate Office

AVG Antivirus was founded in 1991. It operates as a subsidiary of Avast Antivirus Technologies.

The initials AVG stand for Anti-Virus Guard.

The production of a free version enabled the company to grow substantially. Clients can purchase more advanced features, but the basic antivirus software is free to use.

As of 2021, the company states that it has 200 million active users and another 100 million who use the software on their mobile devices.

As of 2014, there are numerous reports dating back to 2012 that the AVG SafeGuard Toolbar installs itself without the consent of the user, as a side effect of installing other applications. It uses quite a bit of RAM and once installed, it is virtually impossible to completely remove it.

Despite rave reviews, the software is not without flaws. One hacker found that they could trick the software into becoming data wipers.

AVG maintains a corporate office in San Mateo, California.

BigCommerce Corporate Office

Back in the early 2000s, two Australians were chatting online and they both found that eCommerce platforms were lacking in many areas.

Eddie Machaalani and Mitchell Harper founded BigCommerce in 2009.

BigCommerce is an eCommerce platform that provides SAAS to small businesses.

In 2014, the company expanded its west coast presence and hired employees from PayPal and Amazon.

In 2020, BigCommerce went public on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol BIGC.

In September 2022, the company expanded its Crypto ecosystem by allowing companies to accept BitPay and Coinpayments.

BeerBat, which makes Bat shaped drinkware for businesses such as the Hard Rock Cafe, turned to BigCommerce in 2022 to help drive sales and found that revenue increased 115% in a single year.

BigCommerce maintains a corporate office in Austin, Texas.

Zen Cart Corporate Office

Zen Cart was founded in 2003 as an offshoot of osCommerce. Zen Cart is very similar to its parent company with the main difference being the template system and other choices available in the core settings.

Zen Cart is an online store management system. This platform offers numerous languages for support, as well as the ability to use a wide range of currencies.

The platform is readily available under the GNU General Public License.

While support for the Zen Cart platform has dropped drastically in recent years, this allowed many third-party apps to develop plug-ins and modules for various problems or needs, such as use of the CAPTCHA system.

The last stable release was in June 2020, version 1.5.7.

The Digital Commerce Platform Software market revenue grew dramatically between 2016 and 2021. It is expected to increase substantially in the following 5 years.

Zen Cart maintains a corporate office in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Genesys Corporate Office

Genesys was founded in 1990 in San Diego, California. Founders Gregory Shenkkman and Alec Miloslavsky borrowed $150,000 from their families as seed money.

In 1999, Alcatel acquired the company for $1.5 billion and in 2016, private equity investors at Hellman and Friedman purchased a $900 million stake in Genesys from majority owners Permira and Technology Crossover Ventures, valuing the company at $3.8 billion.

Genesys is an American software company that offers customer experience and call center technology to businesses. It uses both cloud-based and hybrid cloud software.