Chartbeat

Chartbeat
Private
Founded 2009
Headquarters New York City, United States
Website chartbeat.com

Chartbeat is a web analytics company headquartered in New York City. It was started in 2009. The company helps provide actionable insights to news websites and blogs that the websites and blogs can use to make real-time decisions about the content to publish and promote on their sites.[1]

In August 2010, the company was spun off from Betaworks as a separate company.[2][3][4]

A Mashable article in April 2012 listed Chartbeat as one of three useful real-time analytics tools for businesses, alongside Hootsuite and Parse.ly.[5]

Chartbeat has been touted and critiqued as an alternative to Google Analytics for real-time data.[6][7][8] In February 2016, CEO Tony Haile announced he was resigning from the company after seven years as CEO.[9]

History

Betaworks launched Chartbeat in April 2009 as a real-time web analytics tool that publishers could use to react quickly to changes in user behavior. At the time, Google Analytics did not offer real-time data.[10] The launch of Chartbeat was part of a broader strategy by Betaworks to capitalize on the growth of the real-time, stream-based, social web. Betaworks had also invested in Twitter, Tumblr, bit.ly, and TweetDeck.[11][12]

In August 2010, Chartbeat crossed the 1 million concurrent user mark[13] and in January 2011, Chartbeat crossed the 2 million concurrent user mark.[14]

In July 2011, Chartbeat launched Newsbeat, a version of their service for news sites.[15]

In April 2012, Chartbeat revealed new social features, an iOS app, and a redesign.[16][17] Chartbeat incorporated real-time analytics for video data in April 2013[18] and for native advertising in May 2014.[19]

Funding

In August 2010, the company was spun off from Betaworks as a separate company and raised $3 million in venture capital funding from Index Ventures, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Chris Sacca’s Lowercase Capital, Chris Dixon’s Founder Collective, Lerer Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Freestyle Capital, betaworks, Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC, and Jason Calacanis.[20][21][22]

Chartbeat raised $9.5 million in a Series B round in April 2012, with the goal of using the new funding to change the focus of their analytics service towards measuring user engagement. The round was led by Josh Stein at DFJ and Saul Klein of Index Ventures, who had led the company’s seed round.[16][17][23]

In May 2014, the company raised an additional $3 million.[19]And then it raised $15,5 million in May 2015.[24]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Haile, Tony (March 9, 2014). "What You Think You Know About the Web Is Wrong". Time Magazine. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ Schonfeld, Erick (August 31, 2010). "Chartbeat Raises $3 Million From Index, Conway, Sacca, Clavier, Lerer, And Dixon". Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ O'Dell, Josie (August 31, 2010). "Real-Time Analytics Provider Chartbeat Raises $3M from All-Star Investors". Mashable. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ Ha, Anthony (August 31, 2010). "Website analytics superstar Chartbeat raises $3M". VentureBeat. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ Hockenson, Lauren (April 23, 2012). "3 Slick Analytics Dashboards to Monitor Your Business Website". Mashable. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  6. ↑ Gustav, Dave (February 19, 2013). "Should I Believe Chartbeat’s Data?". Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Chartbeat vs Google Analytics". TrustRadius. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  8. ↑ Angeles, Sara (March 19, 2014). "3 Google Analytics Alternatives (and Why You Should Use Them)". Business News Daily. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile Resigns, Says He's Looking For a New Challenge". Fortune. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  10. ↑ Schonfeld, Erick (April 2, 2009). "Betaworks Launches Chartbeat To Track Who Is Paying Attention To Your Website Right Now". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  11. ↑ Schonfeld, Erick (May 17, 2009). "Jump Into The Stream". Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  12. ↑ Arrington, Michael (June 11, 2009). "Betaworks Email To Investors: Read It Here". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  13. ↑ Schonfeld, Erick (August 4, 2010). "http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/chartbeat-one-million/". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 16, 2015. External link in |title= (help)
  14. ↑ "Chartbeat Cracks 2 Million Concurrent Users Tracked". TechCrunch. January 14, 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  15. ↑ Schonfeld, Erick (July 28, 2011). "Newsbeat Measures The Pulse Of News Sites". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  16. 1 2 "Chartbeat Raises $9.5M, Launches Engagement-Focused Redesign". TechCrunch. April 16, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  17. 1 2 Griffith, Erin (April 16, 2012). "Chartbeat Reveals New Social Features, iOS app, Redesign, and $9.5 Million Series B Round". PandoDaily. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Chartbeat’s New Dashboard Plugs Publishers’ Video Data Into Their Real-Time Analytics". TechCrunch. April 25, 2013. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  19. 1 2 Ha, Anthony (May 14, 2014). "Real-Time Analytics Startup Chartbeat Adds Data For Native Ads, Raises $3M More". Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  20. ↑ Schonfeld, Erick (August 31, 2010). "Chartbeat Raises $3 Million From Index, Conway, Sacca, Clavier, Lerer, And Dixon". Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  21. ↑ O'Dell, Josie (August 31, 2010). "Real-Time Analytics Provider Chartbeat Raises $3M from All-Star Investors". Mashable. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  22. ↑ Ha, Anthony (August 31, 2010). "Website analytics superstar Chartbeat raises $3M". VentureBeat. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  23. ↑ "Chartbeat raises $9.5M round led by DFJ to help clients make the most of their real-time traffic". VentureBeat. April 16, 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  24. ↑ Lynley, Matthew. "Chartbeat Raises $15.5 Million To Save Publishers From The “Viewpocalypse”". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-01-19.

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