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Contentful
The leading content platform for digital-first business
At a glance
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- Berlin, Germany
- Sector
- Other B2B Software
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
News
Cemantica buys Blue Green in second US deal of the year
Sep 16, 2026
Analysis
Growth and acquisition multiples
Sep 12, 2026
Analysis
Europe’s first-time exits, 2024 to 2026
Sep 1, 2026
Analysis
Revolut is 78% of Balderton’s $10.7B in estimated holdings
Aug 30, 2026
Analysis
Salesforce buys Contentful for $1.25B
Jun 16, 2026
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Contentful.
Market map
Contentful pioneered the API-first, headless CMS — the composable content layer behind thousands of digital products, and the reference point the whole MACH category measures against.
Closest companies
Sanity
Composable content cloud
Strapi
Open-source headless CMS
Storyblok
Visual headless CMS
Prismic
Headless page builder
Hygraph
GraphQL-native CMS
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed3 investors entered at this stage
Point Nine- SASaaSgarage
Balderton Capital
Series B and later11 investors entered at this stage
Tiger Global- BPBase10 Partners
- OVOMERS Ventures
Heavybit- TITidemark
Salesforce Ventures- HEHercules
General Catalyst
Benchmark- TCTrinity Capital
Sapphire Ventures
Ownership
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (June 2026). Percentages are indicative.
“Other / undisclosed” is the 33% not attributed to a named shareholder. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Investor returns
Estimated gross proceeds at the Reported $1.25B Salesforce exit, grouped by financing cohort. Money in is each cohort’s primary capital; money out applies its implied ownership to the $1.25B price; MOIC is money out ÷ money in.
Method: New ownership ≈ round capital / post-money; later rounds dilute prior cohorts; money out = ownership × $1.25B. Excludes secondaries, debt, options and exact fund-level allocations. Source: Funding rounds, valuation estimates and shareholder structure; Dealroom analysis. Roughly right, not a legal cap table or realised fund DPI. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
- SK
- PN
Roles shown are indicative of the profiled team; the named individuals, seniority and tenure live on the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Contentful employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
VOvoizeEst. 2020
Christian Sjøvold BlombergGermany
Kim BergstrandGermanyGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Inventions
Content Delivery API
The API-first content backbone — content modelled once and delivered to any channel (web, mobile, IoT) through fast, cacheable read APIs.
Headless / composable architecture
Decoupling content from presentation — the idea Contentful pioneered and that the MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud, Headless) category formed around.
Compose + Launch
Page composition for editors and release orchestration for teams, layered on the headless core so non-developers can ship.
Studio & AI content tooling
Visual editing and AI-assisted workflows that broaden Contentful from a developer tool to a whole-team content platform.
Patents
12 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Beyond the patent portfolio above, Contentful's durable moat is the developer install base and the content-model standard it set. Dealroom tracks the full IP value on the platform.
Unlock the full IP value & patent-readiness breakdownMarket sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Contentful on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
See Contentful on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.