Anaplan, the US-based developer of a software platform to assist business planning, has closed a $100m series D round featuring software producer Workday.
The round was led by DFJ Growth, and Workday participated alongside other new investors Brookside Capital, Coatue Management and Sands Capital Management, and existing backers Granite Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures and cloud software company Salesforce.com.
Anaplan completed a $33m series C round in April 2013 backed by Salesforce, Meritech, Granite Ventures and Shasta, and has now raised more than $150m in funding since it was founded in 2009.
The company’s cloud-based software enables people and plans to be linked to market opportunities. It will invest the funds in scaling up its engineering, increasing its workforce and growing its partner ecosystem.