Broadcom vs Upland

Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. In 1995, the company moved from its Westwood, Los Angeles, office to Irvine, California. In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange and now employs approximately 11,750 people worldwide in more than 15 countries.

Upland Software is the producer of a family of project, portfolio, and work management software products formed in 2013, which offers five different lines of cloud applications developed by companies it acquired. Upland grew out of PowerSteering Software, which itself was founded in 1998. PowerSteering Software was founded in 1998, an outgrowth of an earlier incarnation named Cambridge Interactive, which was founded in 1994.