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HootSuite
Enhances social media management with the leading social media dashboard
About HootSuite
Hootsuite is a social media management platform that helps businesses increase their reach, growth, and revenue through effective social media marketing. The company operates in the digital marketing industry, serving a wide range of clients from small businesses to large corporations. Hootsuite's platform allows users to design, schedule, and publish content across multiple social media networks from a single dashboard. It also offers features such as AI-generated captions and hashtags, approval workflows, and performance benchmarking.
Hootsuite's business model is based on a subscription service, where clients pay a monthly or annual fee to access the platform's features. The company generates revenue through these subscriptions, with the price varying based on the number of users and the level of functionality required.
The platform also includes a unified social media inbox, allowing users to manage and respond to comments and messages across different platforms from one place. This feature, along with automated routing, auto-responders, and chatbot integrations, helps businesses improve their customer service and engagement.
Hootsuite also offers an AI writer that generates content ideas, writes captions, and selects hashtags, helping businesses save time and improve their social media content. Additionally, the platform's social listening tools allow users to monitor keywords, mentions, and hashtags, keeping them informed about discussions related to their brand or industry.
Finally, Hootsuite provides advanced analytics that show paid, organic, and web metrics side by side, helping businesses understand their social media return on investment and how they're driving value at every stage of the customer journey.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2008
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, Canada
- Employees
- 1,725
- Open positions
- 11
- Dealroom signal
- 68.4/100
- Industry
- Marketing
- Sub-industry
- Adtech, CRM & Sales
- Sector
- Marketing, PR, Analytics, Productivity Tools
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
- Investment activity
- 8 companies, latest Apr 2024
- Capital deployed
- —
- Preferred round
- ACQUISITION
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEBTDebt | Mar 2018 | $50M | — | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | — |
| SERIES DOther financing | Sep 2014 | $60M | $725M | Accel · Insight Partners · Silicon Valley Bank | — |
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for HootSuite is 3.5M monthly website visits, up 75% over the last three months. HootSuite's team declined 4.6% over the past year.
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A5 investors entered at this stage
Hearst Ventures
Blumberg Capital
Accel
Insight Partners
OMERS Ventures
Series B and later2 investors entered at this stage
Silicon Valley Bank
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Global footprint
team presence
Market sentiment
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