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Community-owned software company · Since 2015

Software that helps businesses win more clients and grow.

Tier5 builds and supports software products for business owners worldwide — for social engagement, lead generation, funnels and everyday automation — engineered by our teams in Indiana, USA and Kolkata, India.

  • India 500 Most Promising IT Company 2021
  • Tech Start-up of the Year 2022
The Tier5 team standing together outside the office
The Tier5 team

Tier5 at a glance

Founded in January
2015
Customers served worldwide
15,000+
Software products built
35+
Offices in Indiana & Kolkata
US · IN

Recognition

Award badges received by Tier5 and its leadership, including India 500 and India 5000 awards

Proud members of

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), NASSCOM and the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Products

Products built to help a business grow

From social growth and engagement to lead generation and funnels, Tier5 products help business owners reach more people, win more clients and save time.

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Featured product

Friender

Make quality friends and track engagement on your personal social profile — grow your network, remove inactive friends, see engagement reports for every friend and run automations.

  • Grow your friends network
  • Engagement reports for each friend
  • Remove inactive friends
  • Run automation
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Engineering

Engineered in-house, from database to deployment

Tier5 started on Laravel with MySQL and PostgreSQL and has kept modernising its stack — JavaScript frameworks, NoSQL data stores and AWS — shipped continuously by an in-house R&D team.

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  • Front end

    Modern web applications

    Cross-platform, open-source frameworks with an MVC architecture for fast, smooth user experiences.

    • React
    • Angular
    • Vue
    • Express
    • Node.js
  • Data

    Relational to NoSQL at scale

    From Laravel with MySQL and PostgreSQL to MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB and Redis as products grew.

    • MongoDB
    • DynamoDB
    • Redis
    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • Laravel
  • Cloud

    High-availability infrastructure

    APIs rebuilt on AWS behind application load balancing for high availability and faster loading.

    • AWS
    • Load balancing
    • High availability
  • Delivery

    Continuous delivery by an in-house R&D team

    A seasoned R&D team ships through CI/CD, with the direction of every product shaped by its user community.

    • CI/CD
    • R&D
    • User-led roadmap

Why Tier5

A different kind of software company

Tier5 is owned by its community, builds alongside its users and shares its success — with partners and with children in Kolkata who need it most.

  1. Community-owned and operated

    Tier5 is considered the first ever community-owned and operated software firm — funded by our community members in exchange for access to our software.

    How the community works
  2. Built directly with our users

    We develop our products by working directly with the people who use them. Our user community sets the direction of every release.

    Our technology
  3. Partners who share in the growth

    Partners get access to all Tier5 software, priority one-on-one support and group training — and can resell Tier5 software while keeping 100% of the revenue.

    The partner programme
  4. Software that gives back

    Through Helping Hands, businesses get enterprise software for a small monthly donation that helps support orphanages across Kolkata.

    About Helping Hands

Our journey

From a team of two to a product company

Headed by Jon Vaughn, CEO / Founder, and Aunkita Nandi, Managing Director / Co-founder, Tier5 has grown every year since 2015.

Read our story
  1. 2015

    Tier5 is founded

    Tier5 starts in January 2015 as a community-owned software company.

  2. 2016

    A team of two

    Tier5 begins as a service-based software company.

    • 2 people
  3. 2019

    From services to products

    Tier5 becomes a product company, launching tools including Chirply, Link Wizard, Magic Zap and Genius Pages.

    • 37 people
    • 10 launches
  4. 2020

    Scaling the portfolio

    Post Filter Pro, Unlimited Business Leads, Birthday Wisher and Engagement Monster join the line-up.

    • 50 people
    • 8 launches
  5. 2021

    Most Promising IT Company

    Tweeter AI, Form Filler, Post Scheduler and more launch, and Tier5 is named a Most Promising IT Company by India 500.

    • 65 people
    • 11 launches
  6. 2022

    Tech Start-up of the Year

    Tier5 receives Tech Start-up of the Year from the Global Triumph Foundation.

Recognition

Recognised by industry and the press

Awards for the company, its products and its leadership — and coverage in national media.

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Company & products

  • Most Promising IT CompanyIndia 5002021
  • Tech Start-up of the YearGlobal Triumph Foundation2022
  • Best Marketing Automation Software — FrienderEntrepreneur Magazine
  • “Beyond Average” award for entrepreneurship2021

Leadership — Aunkita Nandi

  • Woman of Substance2022
  • Women in Leadership2022
  • Women Power Summit & Awards2022
  • India 5000 Women Achiever Award2021
  • Women in AI — Leadership Award, Analytics India Magazine
India 5000 Women Achiever Awards 2021 winner badges

Featured in

  • The Times of India
  • She Inspires
  • SME World
  • Entrepreneurs of India

Customers

Trusted by business owners around the world

Entrepreneurs, market leaders and start-ups rely on Tier5 for high-utility software and dependable customer support.

Watch customer stories
  • Money loves speed and Tier5 helps you go really really fast.

    Ryan Hanselvia Facebook
  • I think this is one of the best investment that I have made. … This is not just software, you have the option to use and sell.

    Bobby Taylorvia Facebook

Contact

Let’s talk about growing your business.

Questions about our products, the partner programme or joining the community? Reach the Tier5 team directly.