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Wild Apricot is a Canadian cloud-based software company that specializes in membership management software. Wild Apricot's software is used by 22,000 small-medium sized nonprofits, associations, and clubs globally. . The company was founded by Dmitry Buterin in Toronto, Canada in 2006, and was acquired by Personify Corp in 2017. Today, Wild Apricot has offices in both Toronto, Canada and Moscow, Russia and over 100 employees.

HISTORY

Founder Dmitry Buterin studied Computer Science at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering at age 17. In 1997 he co-founded Columbus Russia, a financial software reseller and consultancy, and has considered himself to be a serial tech entrepreneur ever since. Buterin moved to Toronto, Canada in 1999, where he went on to start BonaSource Inc, a custom web application company, in 2001. Wild Apricot was a product of BonaSource Inc and was founded in 2006. Buterin was CEO of Wild Apricot from 2006-2017.

Personify Acquisition In September of 2017, Wild Apricot was acquired by Personify Corp, an American software company known for their enterprise level AMS platform. According to Personify CEO Eric Thurston, "Typically an organization runs Personify360 at headquarters and Wild Apricot in its state and local chapters. The state and local chapters can add up to the low hundreds in many cases. As an organization grows, it is possible to outgrow Wild Apricot and naturally transition to Personify360.”