Tipalti Announces North American Expansion With New Offices in Vancouver, B.C.
Former BlackLine VP to Act as General Manager
San Mateo, CA – January 22, 2020 – Tipalti, the leading global payables automation solution, today announced that it will be opening offices in Vancouver B.C., Canada. This is the third global office for Tipalti, joining existing locations in San Mateo, California and Kibbutz Glil-Yam, Israel.
The new office will be centrally located in the central Vancouver downtown core and opens on February 1, 2020. Tipalti is actively recruiting talent for the new location including a Vice President of Sales, sales representatives, and other professionals. Tipalti expects to hire over 50 new team members in Vancouver by the end of the year.
“With a favorable business climate and a large pool of highly-educated talent, Vancouver serves as an ideal site to help drive our continued growth. Vancouver also happens to be one of the world’s most livable and attractive cities.”
— Chen Amit, CEO and Co-founder of Tipalti
The Vancouver office will be led by Tipalti’s Chief Revenue Officer, Sam Barakat, who joined in 2019 from BlackLine, Inc. As Vice President of Midmarket at BlackLine, Sam built and led BlackLine’s midmarket division from the ground up.
The opening of Tipalti’s third global office comes after another year of continued growth. The company raised $76 million in a Series D round of funding led by Zeev Ventures, maintained its best-in-class customer satisfaction rating of 98%, and more than doubled new customer and business bookings during the first half of 2019. It also made both the Deloitte Fast 500 and Inc 5000 lists of America’s fastest-growing businesses, for the second consecutive year. Tipalti was also recognized as a Best Place To Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times for the third straight year.