![]() Prior to its IPO, Tableau raised over $45 million in venture capital investment from investors such as the NEA and Meritech. On May 17, 2013, Tableau launched an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, raising more than $250 million. Notable Tableau employees include Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Phil Carter and computer scientist and author Leland Wilkinson. Current CEO of Tableau is a longtime Salesforce exec Ryan Aytay. In March 2021, Tableau announced the appointment of Mark Nelson as president and CEO, replacing Adam Selipsky. On June 10, 2019, Tableau was acquired by Salesforce in an all-stock deal worth $15,7 billion, being the largest acquisition in Salesforce's history at the time. Tableau also announced plans to establish an office in Cambridge as a result of the deal. In June 2018, Tableau acquired Empirical Systems, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based artificial intelligence startup, with plans to integrate the company's technology into the Tableau platform. In August 2016, Tableau announced the appointment of Adam Selipsky as president and CEO, effective September 16, 2016, replacing co-founder Christian Chabot as CEO. A new headquarters building opened near Gas Works Park in Wallingford in March 2017 and was followed by a new building in Fremont that opened in 2018. The company has since expanded its Fremont headquarters and announced plans in 2016 for an auxiliary campus in suburban Kirkland, Washington. ![]() Tableau was formally founded in January 2003 by Pat Hanrahan, Christian Chabot, and Chris Stolte, and moved its headquarters to the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, the following year. ASCI was formed to facilitate the simulation and modeling of nuclear weapons. While at Stanford, founders Hanrahan and Stolte, as well as Diane Tang, created the predecessor to Tableau, named Polaris Polaris was a data visualization software tool, built with the support of a United States Department of Energy defense program, the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI).
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