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Short description: American technology company

• Type: Subsidiary
• Key people: Paul Maritz (Chairman), Rob Mee (CEO), Bill Cook (President)
• Industry: Computer software
• Location: San Francisco, California, U.S.A., Palo Alto, California
• Founded: April 2013
• Number of Employees: 2,971 (1Q 2020)
• Revenue: US$509.4M, 2017
• Net income: -US$163.5M
• Owner: Dell Technologies (70%)
• Parent: VMware
• Website: https://pivotal.io

Pivotal Software, Inc. was an American multinational software and services company based in San Francisco that provided cloud platform hosting and consulting services. Since December 2019, Pivotal has been part of VMware.

Pivotal Software was formed in 2012 after spinning out of EMC Corporation and VMware (which was majority-owned by EMC).¹⁾ The name came from the Pivotal Labs LLC which had been acquired by EMC, and briefly used the name GoPivotal, Incorporated. On April 24, 2013, the organization announced a US$ 105 million investment from General Electric (for 10% equity) and Pivotal One, including Cloud Foundry for cloud computing.

Paul Maritz became Pivotal's chief executive immediately after the spin-out.

The Greenplum Database (acquired by EMC in 2010) formed the basis of a division selling software for the big data market.

In March 2013, a distribution of Apache Hadoop called Pivotal HD was announced, including a version of the Greenplum software for it called Hawq.

Paul Maritz became Pivotal's Chairman and Rob Mee, founder of Pivotal Labs, became chief executive officer of Pivotal Software on August 18, 2015. In May, 2016, a US$ 253 million round of investment was announced, including Ford investments. EMC also converted US$ 400 million of debt into equity at that time.

In March 2018, the company filed for an initial public offering, debuting on the NYSE on April 20, 2018.

On August 14, 2019 VMware announced merger discussions with Pivotal, and a definitive agreement to acquire Pivotal Software was signed on August 22, 2019. The merger was completed on December 30, 2019.

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Pivotal Software, Inc. was an American multinational software and services company based in San Francisco that provided cloud platform hosting and consulting services. Since November 2023, Pivotal has been part of Broadcom.

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