Tealeaf has over 450 customers worldwide, including some of the top fortune 100 companies.

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Geoff Galat is vice president, worldwide marketing at Tealeaf, a provider of customer experience management solutions.

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But last year, Americans drank more than 50 billion servings of tea, and marketing tealeaf readers say this will be tea's best year ever in America.

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It acquired sales data analytics company, Varicent, and enterprise search optimizer, Vivisimo, in April and recently announced plans to acquire Tealeaf Technology, which provides customer experience analytics software.

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Another IBM acquisition, Tealeaf, allows app developers to monitor how every single user uses an app looking for patterns, do they swipe or pinch, do they get stuck at some point in the app or crash it.

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He cofounded the new firm with John Leach (also of Blue Martini as well as founder of Incite Retail) and Gene Davis ( worked at NASA, Blue Martini, ClioMusic, SeeSaw Networks, PeopleSoft and Red Pepper, all previous Zweben ventures, plus Fogbreak Software and Tealeaf technologies).

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