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Zendesk

Zendesk was founded in Copenhagen in 2007 by Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl, and Alexander Aghassipour to make customer support software simpler and more usable. The company built a cloud helpdesk that unified email, chat, voice, and social support, then expanded rapidly after relocating headquarters to San Francisco while keeping Danish roots. Zendesk went public in 2014 and later returned to private ownership in 2022, but it continues to shape the global customer experience software market and remains a landmark Danish founded SaaS company.

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