Plecto
Plecto is dashboard software designed to boost performance by displaying real-time performance indicators across business systems in an engaging way. The company was founded in 2012 in Aarhus, Denmark and operates worldwide. Plecto is aimed at increasing performance by sparking motivation and engagement across teams by visualizing their goals and results with gamification and coaching features. Product. Plecto offers a dashboard platform for organizations to build custom KPI dashboards that visualize real-time data across business systems. Organizations can import data from their current systems and filter these data across multiple sources to create in-depth performance dashboards  that take more variables into account. With gamification features, Plecto aims at engaging teams with leaderboards, achievements, and notifications. It also integrates with Phillips Hue lighting and Sonos wireless speakers for visual recognition of accomplishments. Users are able to access and display their individual or team's dashboards from their desktop, tablet, TV, and from the smartphone app. History. Plecto was founded by Kristian Houlberg Øllegaard and Steffen Bagge in 2012. At the time, Kristian Houlberg Øllegaard was employed in a retention department in a local call center. Frustrated by having to manually keep track of sales and retentions, he  decided to develop a software that could automate this process. They implemented the software across the department and put up large television screens across the office to display the dashboards. The result was an almost instant increase in the retention rate to a record-setting 74.6%. It was not long after this that Kristian Houlberg Øllegaard decided to drop out of university to dedicate his time to Plecto. Funding. In 2014, investor and Just-Eat-founder Jesper Buch entered the company providing the first round of funding. Two years later in January 2016, the company was granted a loan from  the Danish Growth Fund to implement their plans for growth. Other investors include Jan Dal Lehrmann, co-founder of BilBasen and CEO of Benjamin Media, who in 2017 invested in Plecto to further new expansion. Markets. As of March 2017, Plecto serves customers in 30 countries across the world.