First I'll do a little advertising. If anybody is looking for a job, we have about 170 postings on our career site right now. We're about 600 employees worldwide. About 90% of those are in Canada, the vast majority in Kitchener-Waterloo. We're soon going to be starting a small operation in St. John's, Newfoundland, but most everybody is in K-W. As a matter of fact, the only official office we have at this point, at least for this week, is in K-W.
The growth really has been phenomenal. If you say that in 2005 we were 50 and now we're 600, that was not a steady growth. When the patent litigation ended in December 2009, we were about 150 employees. Much of the growth has been in the past three years.
I don't think anyone in our company recognized the pent-up demand the patent litigation caused on both sides, both from our competitor and from us. There were a lot of prospects that had taken a wait-and-see attitude, and since then it has been phenomenal.
We're very excited by it. We have moved to new space, which is old space in K-W, and now we're looking for more space. We cannot keep up with hiring. I used to know all three people in the sales department and now it really is overwhelming. We love our Canadian base and we have no intentions of giving that up.
Some people may be aware that we just accepted our first round of financing ever, which is pretty remarkable for a company our size. We have an $80-million investment, and that investment was cross-border. Almost a half of it came from OMERS, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, and the other half came from a U.S. investment outfit called NEA.
We're really excited about that turn of events.