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- Memo, which has clients like Samsung and Google, has raised $17 million.
- Founded in 2018, the PR tech startup tells clients exactly how many people have read an article.
- Its latest round, a $10 million Series A raised in August 2021, gave it a $60 million valuation.
Since closing a $10 million Series A funding round in August 2021, PR tech startup Memo has won business with new clients like AT&T and Kroger, and inked data partnerships with publishers like The Verge, Inc, and Fast Company. Led by Auren Hoffman, founder and former CEO of LiveRamp, the Series A valued Memo at $60 million.
Founded in 2018, Memo pitches software that shows PR pros how many people read an article about a company or its products, and how readers discovered that story.
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Memo, which previously raised $7 million in seed funding, gets this insight via exclusive partnerships with publishers like Condé Nast, Forbes, and The Washington Post, said company CEO and founder Eddie Kim. Its clients include Google, Samsung, and Walmart, and Kim said these big corporate names are flocking to Memo because competitors like Cision and Meltwater focus on measuring impressions, which don’t show if readers clicked on a link or took action based on the content.
Kim said Memo will start deploying its Series A to hire more engineers, and double its headcount across sales and marketing.
In particular, Kim hopes to promote the variety of use cases for Memo’s data. For example, if a company faces social media backlash following an unflattering article, they could use Memo’s tech to see how many people are reading about the crisis on a news site and benchmark that figure against historical data, so they’ll know the severity of that crisis.
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Memo addresses a specific problem: hundreds of millions of people read online articles, but there is no simple way to access to publisher data.
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The media ecosystem is too fractured to combine publisher data into a single source.
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Memo highlights its financial opportunity to integrate publisher data into a single source by comparing its solution to platforms like Twitter.
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Memo says its solution isn’t just for PR — it can be used by marketing, research, and finance departments.
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Memo says it not only ingests publisher data, it can also tell clients what that data means.
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Memo is taking on a host of entrenched players like Cision and Meltwater.
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Memo claims to be the first PR tech player that can provide data at the article level.
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Memo provides case studies from three high-profile clients.
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The pitch deck also included a testimonial quote from one of its biggest clients, Google.
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Memo highlights investors like Jonah Goodhart and MathCapital that are well known in the marketing and adtech space.
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