Things continue to be exciting at Yammer. It's by far the best company with which I've ever worked! 3 million people at over 100,000 companies use our product, with networks representing 80% of the fortune 500, with 7-11, Ford, Southern Company, Shell and SuperValu among the new clients deploying our service this year! As a company Yammer does an amazing job of empowering their employees to do their jobs, they offer great perks, and, of course, they are hiring (Wil Everts sent you!)

Today's news is that Yammer has also just raised $17 million in Round D financing, bringing the company's total financing to $57 million. Here's what the press is saying:

Business social networking company Yammer has raised $17 million in Series D funding led by the Social+Capital Partnership, a new fund established by former Facebook Vice President Chamath Palihapitiya, VentureWire reports. Facebook is an investor in the fund...

More from the Wall Street Journal: Facebook-Backed Fund Leads Yammer’s $17M Financing

Palihapitiya said of the investment in Yammer: “Social networking is destined to have as significant an impact on the enterprise as it has already had in our personal lives…Yammer is the clear leader in enterprise social networking and is redefining collaboration, sharing and productivity in a way that will disrupt an entire class of existing enterprise applications.”

Yammer founder and CEO David Sacks says that the company, which raised $25 million last November, didn’t need to raise additional funding at the moment. But the opportunity for Palihapitiya to help advise, scale and provide his insight to the company was “invaluable.”

More from TechCrunch: Former Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya Leads $17M Round In Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer

See also:

• Yammer Raises $17 Million in Financing Round Led by The Social+Capital Partnership
• Yammer raises $17M from former Facebook VP to improve enterprise social networking
• Yammer Gains Momentum