HubSpot
Co-founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah in 2006, HubSpot is a technology company that builds marketing, sales, and customer service software.
Ex-HubSpot exec builds an AI-powered CRM that learns for you, with $4M seed led by Sequoia
Christopher O’Donnell has hobbies. He likes music and playing guitar, but above all, he loves building software. Which is why three years after leaving HubSpot, he built Day.ai, a CRM…
As deal rumors fly, Alphabet and HubSpot would be a strange pairing
Reuters reported on Thursday that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is exploring the possibility of buying Boston-based HubSpot, a CRM and marketing automation company with a market cap of over $33…
Early Stage 2024 Audience Choice winner revealed
You voted and the results are finally in! We’re excited to announce that you chose Dana Louie, HubSpot’s Senior Manager of Corporate Development, as this year’s Audience Choice roundtable winner…
How to set up and use a CRM to run your VC fundraising process
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software isn’t just for managing customer relationships anymore. Here’s a detailed guide to setting up your own system for pitching investors.
HubSpot picks up B2B data provider Clearbit to enhance its AI platform
HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software maker and CRM platform, announced today it’s acquiring the B2B data provider Clearbit to enhance its platform with third-party company data spanning millions of businesses. The…
At its Inbound customer conference in Boston today, HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing and CRM platform, announced a comprehensive AI strategy it’s calling HubSpot AI. While HubSpot, much like other enterprise SaaS…
Report predicts that 70% of chief product officers will have P&L ownership by 2028.
As digital tracking wanes, companies turn to online communities for direct access to customers
We spoke to a number of industry experts to get their take on community building and what it means for SaaS companies as they look for growth opportunities in a…
Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion
Barely a day goes by without news of layoffs emerging from the tech world — from cybersecurity to gaming, no industry is impervious. It’s not limited to any particular size of…
Update (July 8, 12:15 PM IST): Opensea vendor consumer.io revealed today that customer data of five other companies were also compromised. While the firm didn’t name these clients, it said…
OpenView’s Kyle Poyar shares how to build a standout software company in the 2020s
The best software companies of the 2020s will be built over the next 12 months. But the way to build and scale a standout company in the 2020s doesn’t look…
This startup wants to help teams get more out of virtual meetings
If the pandemic-triggered proliferation of online meetings is killing your team productivity and sapping the attention of overloaded info workers, German startup tl;dv might have just the tool: It’s built…
Metrics alone don’t help you build a business. They can help you set targets, but they do little to help you hit those targets.
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HubSpot is the latest SaaS company to woo creators
It’s getting harder these days to get your buyer’s attention. It used to be that you paid for some ads and threw up some blog posts and you were pretty…
Daily Crunch: Corporate management startup Ramp doubles its valuation to $8.1B with new financing
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Why so many SaaS companies are launching their own media operations
Around 2003, as blogs began to take hold, it became clear that these writing tools could be more than an outlet for an individual’s ruminations — they also had potential for business and marketing.
It’s been several years since Barcelona-based Typeform tapped investors to grow usage of its “conversational data collection platform”, as it bills the customizable form/survey/quiz builder software it sells. Actually it’s…
Apollo.io raises $110M as its sales intelligence platform crosses 16K paying companies
One of the bigger impacts of COVID-19 has been that more business than ever before is now being carried out online. To meet that opportunity, today a startup called Apollo.io…
The company designed its product offerings to connect all of the moving pieces related to booking residential and commercial service work.
Demand Curve: Avoid these 10 copywriting mistakes to get more conversions
Copywriting isn’t about combining the right words to sell your product — it’s how your messaging connects with users. By improving a few words, your copy can better convince people…
Vimeo snaps up AI video startup Wibbitz and ‘shoppable’ video tech maker Wirewax to expand its enterprise video tools
Vimeo, the B2B video platform that spun out from IAC earlier this year, has made a pair of acquisitions aimed at building out the suite of features and tools it…
Caffeinated, Coatue, Gradient back RevOps to build modern sales stack for startups
RevOps developed a software stack that enables users to build “the knobs and switches” that make automated quote-to-cash approvals.
Smart growth tactics can put account-based marketing within reach for startups and SMBs
Many startups think account-based marketing is reserved for corporations that employ enterprise marketing teams and can fling about big marketing budgets. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
HubSpot Ventures’ new $100M fund fulfilling ‘mission to help millions of organizations grow better’
HubSpot made a total of 25 investments through its prior fund and expects to continue at the same pace with the new fund.
Hubilo picks up $125M to double down on building a more engaging platform for virtual and live events
Virtual became the norm for physical gatherings at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and now, as many jet back into in-person meetings, some believe that the online version, at…
Sendoso nabs $100M as its corporate gifting platform passes 20,000 customers
Corporate gift services have come into their own during the COVID-19 pandemic by standing in as a proxy for other kinds of relationship-building activities — office meetings, lunches and hosting…
HubSpot CEO moving to exec chairman role as company promotes Yamini Rangan to CEO
Boston-based CRM company HubSpot announced today that co-founder and CEO Brian Halligan would be stepping into the executive chairman role and Chief Customer Officer Yamini Rangan would be taking over…
QuotaPath raises $21.3M in Insight Partners-led round to help sales teams better track commissions
The startup gives teams a way to streamline the commission process and avoid inaccurate budgets, payouts, and ‘unhappy sales reps due to poor sales commission planning, reporting and administration.’
