Giles Palmer
- Founder and CEO at Brandwatch
- CEO at Crimson Hexagon
GetLatka interview
How Brandwatch Reached $50M Revenue and Nearly 1,500 Customers by 2018 (Interview with CEO Giles Palmer)
Giles Palmer (Founder and CEO of Brandwatch) spoke to Nathan Latka on February 21, 2018.
Brandwatch figures from the interview
- Revenue (2017)
- $50M
- Customers (2018)
- Just under 1,500
- Avg Contract Value (2018)
- $30,000
- Team Size (2018)
- 420
- Total Funding Raised
- $55M (he first said $50M)
“It's a subscription business. It's a SaaS business, and it's basically a data business. So we crawl about 80,000,000 websites and have feeds from the social networks. We aggregate all of that, and we allow brands to kind of check out what the world is saying about them, their competition, and so on.”
“Annual contract value is about $30,000”
“Last year's record... Record revenue is around around 50.”
Companies
Brandwatch
Brighton, United Kingdom · Founded 2005
- Revenue
- $120M
- Funding
- $63.9M
- Team size
- 1.2K
- Customers
- 1.5K
Crimson Hexagon
Boston, United States · Founded 2005
- Revenue
- $22.6M
- Funding
- $33.1M
- Team size
- 251
- Customers
- 10K