Headquarters
Cambridge, MAFounded
2006CEO / Founder
Yamini RanganEmployees
5001-10000Funding
PublicStock
HUBSProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
6.8/10Website
hubspot.comProfile updated
HubSpot is a customer platform company founded in 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. The software offers marketing, sales, service, CMS, and operations hubs along with Breeze AI assistants, unified on a single CRM database.
HubSpot serves more than 247,000 customers in 135+ countries, with strong penetration in SMB and mid-market segments. The company coined and evangelized the concept of inbound marketing.
HubSpot went public on NYSE in 2014 (HUBS). Yamini Rangan has served as CEO since 2021; Brian Halligan is Executive Chair. The company generates more than $2.5 billion in annual revenue.
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Who HubSpot competes with, and how they differ.
The enterprise CRM incumbent HubSpot has spent two decades unseating from the SMB/mid-market up; broader enterprise feature depth and a higher price point versus HubSpot's bundled Marketing/Sales/Service Hub model built for easier adoption. Salesforce Ventures was even an early HubSpot investor (2011 Series D) before the two became direct rivals.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewedSMB-focused marketing automation and CRM suite competing directly with HubSpot Marketing Hub at a lower price point, priced on email/SMS send volume rather than HubSpot's per-seat model.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedSales engagement platform with its own B2B contact database, overlapping with HubSpot Sales Hub and Breeze Intelligence enrichment; packaged and priced for outbound-heavy SDR teams rather than full-funnel marketing.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedE-commerce-native email/SMS marketing automation competing with HubSpot Marketing Hub for online retail customers, with deeper native Shopify/e-commerce data integration than HubSpot's more general-purpose CRM approach.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedSales engagement platform for structured multichannel sequencing and pipeline execution, competing with HubSpot Sales Hub inside enterprise sales orgs; narrower in scope than HubSpot's combined marketing-sales-service platform.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedBudget all-in-one CRM/marketing/finance software bundle aimed at cost-sensitive SMBs; undercuts HubSpot on price with a broader, if less polished, suite that extends beyond marketing/sales/service into finance and HR.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedKey milestones in HubSpot's history, with sources.
FY2025 revenue reaches $3.13 billion
HubSpot reported full-year 2025 total revenue of $3.13 billion, up 19% year-over-year, in its Q4/FY2025 earnings release.
finance.yahoo.comBreeze AI suite launched at INBOUND 2024
HubSpot launched Breeze, an AI layer across its customer platform comprising Breeze Copilot, four Breeze Agents (Content, Social Media, Prospecting, Customer) and Breeze Intelligence data enrichment, plus 80+ embedded AI features.
hubspot.comAcquires Clearbit for ~$150 million
HubSpot entered a definitive agreement to acquire B2B data provider Clearbit for approximately $150 million (final cash purchase price $140.4M net of cash acquired per its 10-K) to strengthen its AI-driven customer intelligence.
techcrunch.comIPO on NYSE at $25/share
HubSpot priced its IPO at $25 per share (5,000,000 common shares, later 5,750,000 with over-allotment) and began trading on the NYSE under ticker HUBS.
hubspot.comSeries D — $32M from Sequoia, Google Ventures and Salesforce
HubSpot raised a $32 million fourth round of financing from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and Salesforce.com — the first time the three firms had invested together in one company.
en.wikipedia.orgHubSpot founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, MIT graduate students, founded HubSpot in Cambridge, Massachusetts around the "inbound marketing" thesis that buyers wanted helpful information rather than interruptive ads.
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