Economy & Economic Development  January 24, 2019

RingCentral to acquire Boulder’s Connect First

BOULDER — RingCentral Inc. (NYSE: RNG), a provider of enterprise cloud communications, entered into an agreement to acquire Connect First.

Connect First is a cloud-based outbound/blended customer engagement platform for midsize and enterprise companies. Connect First is a Boulder company. RingCentral is based in Belmont, Calif.

“Maximizing agent productivity in today’s rapidly changing customer service environment is becoming increasingly challenging. Customer service organizations need to seamlessly blend outbound calling activity with customer call backs and communications over digital channels,” Jim Dvorkin, senior vice president of customer engagement for RingCentral, said in a written statement. “The acquisition of Connect First complements our current Customer…

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Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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