Miami, Florida, United States
Muck Rack is a public relations software company that provides a journalist database, media monitoring, and PR management tools to communications professionals. Founded in 2009 by Gregory Galant and Lee Semel as a free journalist directory, the company relaunched as a SaaS business in 2011 and scaled entirely on bootstrapped capital for more than a decade before closing a $180 million Series A round in 2022 with Susquehanna Growth Equity at an ARR of over $50 million. The company grew from a two-week build with an $8 domain budget to a team of more than 250 people, achieving that headcount growth largely after going fully remote during the pandemic. Galant and Semel raised under $200,000 in angel funding before the 2022 institutional round, supplementing early growth with profits reinvested from a sister business, the Shorty Awards. Galant and his co-founder retained majority ownership and control of the company following the growth round. Muck Rack's product suite serves PR professionals who need to identify journalists to pitch, monitor earned media coverage, and demonstrate the value of communications work. The company has expanded its platform with AI-powered tools, including PressPal AI, a generative press release agent launched shortly after ChatGPT's public debut.
- Revenue
- $143.1M
- Year founded
- 2009
- Funding
- $180M
- Team size
- 315