We welcome Gen Uehara, Vice President of Sales Engineering Asia of Symphony Communication Services, for this event.
Collaboration platform for finance startup Symphony looks to make Asia the next front in its war on industry leader Bloomberg, sensing strong opportunities in Japan and in growth markets such as China and India as well as outside the financial sector.
Symphony Communication Services launched in 2014, backed by a consortium including some of the biggest names in American finance such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Google and others joined later, handing the company a hefty $230 million in capital. Venture capital research firm CB Insights estimates Symphony’s worth at $1 billion.
The Symphony platform, combining cloud-based messaging and communications with financial news and data from providers such as Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters, is used by over 310 companies and 320,000 people, many of them in the U.S. financial sector.