Woo hoo! HubSpot turns 20 years old today! @bhalligan and I “officially” founded HubSpot on June 9th, 2006. That date is not arbitrary. It was picked for a reason. More on that in a little bit… First, fun story:  HubSpot was the company I was never supposed to start. I had promised my wife that I wasn’t going to do another startup. We had met before I ever started my first company at a time when nobody believed (including me) that I had what it took to be an entrepreneur. I was working as a software developer in Birmingham, Alabama and starting a company was not at all on my mind. I ran that first company as founder/CEO for over a decade before selling it for a life-changing amount of money. I decided to go to grad school and was thrilled that I got accepted into MIT (it had always been a dream of mine). That’s where I met Brian. One thing led to another and we figured out that we were both passionate about SMBs and decided to start a company together that focused on them. So, I convinced my wife to release me from my promise. But, I did want to make sure I finished up my graduate program (I had a graduate paper to submit in order to earn my degree). On Friday June 9th, 2006, I graduated with a M.S. in the Management of Technology (a weird degree that is very much MIT).  That degree is no longer offered and I was the last person to graduate with it. So, the day of my graduation, June 9th, 2006 we officially started HubSpot. We were off to the races! That was twenty years ago today. So many great memories over those years. I’d like to thank my wife Kirsten. If she had not agreed to let me start another startup, HubSpot would not exist.  We started with 3 customers in those early days (including my wife – who is still a paying customer) and now we have over 300,000. I am deeply grateful to our customers – past and present. You are the reason we started the company and you are the reason we continue to work hard. Our core tenet of HubSpot culture is to Solve For The Customer. I’m grateful to the thousands of HubSpot solutions partners and technology partners. Without you, HubSpot would not be the platform and ecosystem it is today. Thanks for helping us Solve For The Customer. And last but not least, I’m grateful to all the HubSpotters past and present. I’m not known to be a “people person” but the truth is that HubSpot could not have become the company it is without you and it has given me great joy to see so many of you learn, develop and grow at HubSpot. Thank you. I honestly have never had more fun and been more excited for the future than I am right now. With the leadership of @yaminirangan we are writing the next chapter of HubSpot. The agentic customer platform chapter. Sorry for the self-indulgent post. Will save the "lessons learned" topic for another time. Thanks for your support. Cheers.

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i'm really excited to share that we've raised a 150M Series D valuing @hightouchdata at $2.75B WSJ broke the news this morning, which is honestly a "pinch me" moment as a founder there's already AI for legal, customer service, and coding we're building the AI platform for marketers.

Big news: Hightouch has raised $150M at a $2.75B valuation, led by @GoldmanSachs and @BainCapVC. We’re dreaming big for this next chapter of Hightouch. Learn more about our not-so-secret plan to reinvent marketing with agentic AI: hightouch.com/blog/hightouch…

So proud to announce that @HightouchData has raised a 150M Series D, led by @GoldmanSachs and @BainCapVC, valuing the company at $2.75B!

We raised $4.5M to build a future where revenue teams spend less time on RFPs, security questionnaires, sales materials and account plans, and more time engaging with customers. The round was led by Frontline, with HubSpot Ventures, Lifeline, and amazing angels joining!

So stoked to be joining @MiikaHuttunen @mantyla_mikko and @JernJohan in their Seed Round! Let's go!

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I've been working and building in the CRM industry for 30 years (so have far exceeded the needed 10,000 hours). The last big transformation we saw in CRM was over 25 years ago with Salesforce's launch of what became the Cloud CRM. Eventually, every (successful) CRM was a cloud CRM. The next big transformation is happening now with the advent of AI and agents. But it's not about being "AI first", it's about being CONTEXT FIRST. Context isn't a feature. It's the whole game. Modern AI models are sensationally smart. But success is not just about high IQ, it's also about having high CQ (Context Quotient). The smartest person in the room is useless if they just walked in. An AI that knows your Q2 pipeline is full, your best rep is on parental leave, and your biggest account just hired a new decision-maker responds very differently than one that doesn't. In most companies, context lives in databases, docs, message threads… and people's heads. It's scattered and fragmented. That's a problem because without shared context, AI is just a very smart intern on their first day at work. AI agents are awesome – but only if they're context aware. So, I'm thrilled to finally share what HubSpot has been working towards. It's been 20 years in the making: The Agentic Customer Platform A customer platform built for both humans *and* AI agents. One that is context-first. A platform that combines the world's smartest AI models with the deepest context to deliver the most effective agents to drive your growth. Agents are the future of software and agentic is the future of customer platforms. Eventually, every (successful) customer platform will be an agentic customer platform -- and every successful GTM agent will need to integrate with an agentic customer platform. Yes, I know I'm biased, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm wrong. :) You can read more details about our vision in a post today by @yaminirangan (HubSpot's CEO). You can get to it by visiting: acp .net (yes, I like short links…and I don't know why). I'll be digging into the details of what this means from a product/technology perspective and how it actually works over the coming weeks and months. I love it when the dots start to connect.

Lovable's $330M Series B was led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures' Anthology fund. Additional investors include the venture arms of leading companies building the future of work: - NVentures (Nvidia) - Salesforce Ventures - Databricks Ventures - T. Capital (Deutsche Telekom) - Atlassian Ventures - HubSpot Ventures They're joined by: - Khosla Ventures - DST Global - EQT Growth - Kinship Ventures And returning investors: - Accel - Creandum - Evantic

The interface of the future is human. We’ve raised a $40M Series B from CRV, Scale, Sequoia, and YC to teach machines the art of being human, so that using a computer feels like talking to a friend or a coworker. And today, I’m excited for y’all to meet the PALs: a new human-computing interface. PALs are emotionally intelligent, multimodal, and capable of understanding and perceiving. They can see, hear, reason, and even look like us. We’re releasing our 5 favorite PALs to start. Each PAL has its own distinct personality- from AI assistants to best friends. PALs: - Meet us where we are. Face-to-face over video call, on the phone, or even by text. - Are always thinking. They’re proactive, reach out first, remind you about what you forgot, or might just check in on you. - Understand us, finally. PALs can see us, understand our tone, emotion, and intent, and communicate in ways that feel more human. - Evolve with you. PALs have advanced memory, remember your preferences and needs, and adapt themselves over time. - Are capable. PALs can handle complex tasks — from responding to your emails to moving your schedule around to creating docs and doing research for you. Science fiction promised us a new human-computer interface, beyond the GUIs of yesterday, a human-like interface that would feel second-nature to use. That future never came, until now. Charlie’s story brings this idea to life. We’re excited for you to meet Charlie and his PALs for free at tavus.io Enjoy the film 👇