The domain name Thoughtspot.com sold on Afternic in August 2013 for $9,500.
Today Term Sheet is reporting that the company who bought the domain is now named ThoughtSpot, it is located in a Redwood City, California and is a “provider of search-based business intelligence solutions, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. ”
“Khosla Ventures led the round, and was joined by Aaron Levie and return backers like Lightspeed Venture Partners. www.thoughtspot.com
In February the company raised $10.7 Million, as reported by TechCrunch.com
The company “is the brainchild of Nutanix co-founder Ajeet Singh and Amit Prakash, who was a founding engineer of Microsoft’s Bing team and then spent five years leading technical teams in Google’s AdSense Analytics group.”
Branding of a company that already raised $40 Million based off of a $9,500 domain purchase less than a year ago.