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HootSuite

Marketing · Vancouver, Canada · Founded 2008

Enhances social media management with the leading social media dashboard MoreLess

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.

Keywords: Social Media Management, Digital Marketing, Content Scheduling, AI-Generated Content, Performance Benchmarking, Unified Social Media Inbox, Customer Engagement, Social Listening, Advanced Analytics, Subscription-Based Revenue.

Company overview

HootSuite company information

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Status
Operational
Founded
2008
Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Employees
1,725
Open positions
11
Dealroom signal
68.4
Investment activity
8 companies · latest Apr 2024
Capital deployed
Preferred round
ACQUISITION
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Valuation & funding

HootSuite funding history

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
DEBTDebt Mar 2018 $50M Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
SERIES DOther financing Sep 2014 $60M $725M Accel · Insight Partners · Silicon Valley Bank
SERIES BOther financing Aug 2013 $165M $660M Accel · OMERS Ventures · Insight Partners
LATE VCOther financing Mar 2012 $20M $80M Undisclosed
DEBTDebt Sep 2011 $3M Blumberg Capital · Hearst Ventures
SERIES AOther financing Aug 2011 Accel
SERIES AOther financing Dec 2009 Hearst Ventures · Blumberg Capital
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Growth signals

HootSuite website traffic

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.

Latest monthly visits3.5M 3-month web change+75% 1-year team growth-4.6%
Monthly website visits133 observations · Oct 2014–Jul 2026
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Comparisons

HootSuite compared with similar companies

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Capital deployed

HootSuite investments and acquisitions

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Talent graph

HootSuite's talent

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Team profiled 253 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 16 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Investors

7 investors on HootSuite's cap table

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Series A 5 investors entered at this stage
Hearst Ventures
Blumberg Capital
Accel
Insight Partners
OMERS Ventures
Series B+ 2 investors entered at this stage
Silicon Valley Bank
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Global footprint

Where HootSuite has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
33 countries with
team presence
🇨🇦 Canada47.2%
🇺🇸 United States11.2%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom8.4%
🇱🇺 Luxembourg6.4%
🇷🇴 Romania4.8%
Top 5 of 33 shown

In the news

Latest news about HootSuite

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about HootSuite

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Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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