Coppinger and Mackey founded their company Digital Crew in 2007 and built websites, intranets and custom web-based solutions for clients in Cork, Ireland. Frustrated by whiteboards and software management tools, Coppinger wanted a software system that would help manage client projects and which would be easy-to-use and generic enough to be used by different types of companies. Originally 37signals Basecamp users themselves, Coppinger and Mackey were frustrated by the limited feature set and by Basecamp's apparent refusal to take on board user feedback. Coppinger and Mackey began designing. In October 2007, they launched Teamwork Project Manager, nicknamed TeamworkPM. In March 2015, this was renamed as Teamwork Projects. In 2014, after two years of negotiations, TeamworkPM bought the domain name 'Teamwork' for US$675,000. In what was one of the biggest domain sales worldwide, and one of the most expensive ever purchased by an Irish company, the domain name had been dormant since it was acquired by original owner in 1999. Originally the asking price had been $11 million. In 2015, Teamwork was named by Gartner to be one of their Cool Vendors 2015 in the Program and Portfolio Management Category. This was followed by the launch of a new real-time messaging product, Teamwork Chat, in January 2015. Another new product for support desks was launched in March 2015. In June 2015, the company announced a recruitment drive to fill 40 new positions by the end of the year. This was followed by the announcement that the company was investing more than €1 million in a new Google inspired office, and had leased office space in Park House, Blackpool. In June 2016, Teamwork undertook a further recruitment drive to entice developers to move to Cork instead of locating to Dublin. In 2019, Teamwork added 2 new products to their suite, first they added Teamwork Spaces, quickly followed by Teamwork CRM.
Products
Teamwork markets a number of cloud-based applications: Teamwork Projects, Teamwork Desk, and Teamwork Chat. The former, Teamwork Projects, was launched on 4 October 2007. At this time, among its components were to-do lists, milestone management, creation of web-based text documents, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system. Teamwork Chat was launched in January 2015 and is marketed as a "real time messaging tool". It is designed to works on Windows and Mac, and iOS and Android Apps were also launched. Teamwork Desk is help-desk software, and the Teamwork Timer app allows users to log how much time was spent on tasks.
Awards
In 2016, Teamwork was awarded Cork’s Best SME in Cork Chamber’s annual Company of the Year Awards.
In 2016, Teamwork was named number 7 in Deloitte's Fast 50 tech companies hit €1.6bn turnover.
In 2015, Teamwork was awarded a Gartner Cool Vendor in the Program and Portfolio Mangagement Category.
