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Mu Sigma Inc.

Type

US Privately Owned

Industry

Advanced Analytics anddecision sciences

Founded

(2004)[1]

Founder(s)

Dhiraj C Rajaram

Headquarters

Chicago,
Illinois, U.S.

Services

Marketing Analytics
Supply Chain Analytics
Risk Analytics

Employees

2,000 (2012)[2]

Website

Mu Sigma Inc.

Mu Sigma is an analytics services provider. The firms name is derived from the statistical terms Mu ()
and Sigma () which symbolize the meanand the standard deviation respectively of a probability
distribution.
The company is ISO 27001 certified.[3]

Mu Sigma is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with its main delivery centre in Bangalore. Mu Sigma
provides services to more than 75 fortune 500 clients

[4]

in several distinct industries.

Contents
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1 History

2 Recognition

3 References

4 External links

History[edit source | editbeta]

Mu Sigma was founded by Dhiraj C Rajaram, a former strategy consultant for Booz Allen
Hamilton and PricewaterhouseCoopers, in 2004.[1] In 2008, Mu Sigma raised its first institutional
investment round of $30 million from FTVentures (now FTV Capital). [5] In April 2011, the company raised
an additional $25 million from Sequoia Capital.[6] In December 2011, the company announced a $108
million round of financing from Sequoia and private equity investor General Atlantic one of the largest
investments yet in an analytics services company.[4]

Recognition[edit source | editbeta]

In February 2013, Mu Sigmas founder, chairman and ceo, Dhiraj Rajaram won the Ernst &
Young Entrepreneur Of The Year India Award 2012, for services category. [7]

In Sep 2012, CEO Dhiraj Rajaram won the 2012 Gold Stevie Award for Executive of the Year; Mu
Sigma takes Bronze for Company of the Year in the Diversified Services category.[8]

In 2012, Mu Sigma was ranked #907 on the Inc. 5000 list of Americas fastest-growing private
companies. In 2011 the company ranked #386, and in 2010, it ranked #204. [9]

References