Podium

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podium.com

HQ: Lehi, UT, USA

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Podium is a privately held SaaS company that builds a communications, payments, and marketing platform for local businesses. Its core product helps businesses collect reviews, message customers, send text marketing, and process payments from one platform.

Primary product

Customer messaging / communications and payments platform for local businesses

Founded

2014

Headquarters

Lehi, Utah, United States

Team size

501-1000

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

B2B SaaS for local business communications, payments, and marketing

Offices

Lehi, Utah, United States

Lahore, Pakistan

Islamabad, Pakistan

Business model

SaaS subscription

payments/transaction revenue

Funding

Stage

Series D

Total raised

$422.7M

Latest round

Series D · Nov 2021

Latest amount

$201M

Series D

Nov 2021 · YC Continuity

$201M

Series C

Apr 2020 · YC Continuity

$125M

Series B

Jun 2018 · IVP

$60M

Series A

May 2017

$32M

People & investors

Leadership

Eric Rea

Co-Founder and CEO

Chance Olson

Chief Operating Officer / Chief Strategy Officer

Chris Nielson

Vice President, SMB Customer Success & Onboarding

Ashley Ryan

Head of Talent, People & Culture - AU

Tyson Brown

Regional Sales Director

Brad Morgan

Head of Sales - SMB

Thomas Mancuso

Senior Director of Partnerships

Katie Hill

Sales Director

Founders

Cody McArthur

Co-Founder

Dennis Steele

Co-founder

Investors

Durable Capital Partners

West Coast Equity Partners

Y Combinator

YC Continuity

Work & culture

Public-facing content emphasizes a performance-driven, customer-focused, high-growth sales culture and ongoing product/engineering improvement. Podium posts about coaching, mentorship, and career growth, and frames the company as modernizing how local businesses operate.

Compensation

No public compensation philosophy or salary ranges were surfaced in primary sources during this search. Job listings were visible, including roles in Pakistan and technical/sales roles, but no reliable pay data was found.

Product & market

Pricing

Not fully public; appears to offer tiered SaaS packages including a free starter product historically (Podium Starter) and paid plans for messaging, reviews, payments, and marketing.

Differentiators

—All-in-one platform for reviews, messaging, payments, and text marketing
—Designed for local businesses and service SMBs
—Started with review generation via text messaging
—Strong integration of AI and workflow automation
—Large customer footprint in local business category

Technology

podium

amp

javascript

google ads

facebook

youtube

github

react

tailwind

slack

calendly

twilio

stripe

Customers

Local businesses

SMBs

dealerships

service businesses

restaurants

home services businesses

Competitors

Weave

Shopify

Intuit

Yelp

Birdeye

Thryv

Other local-business messaging/review/payment platforms

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $100M-$150M annual revenue (public estimate from Exa entity data: $123.1M annual revenue)

Signals & risks

Layoff

Dec 2022

Business Insider reported Podium laid off 12% of staff and cut costs amid market slowdown.

Source

Latest news

Podium Launches Industry's First AI Operating System for Aesthetic Practices

PR Newswire / Podium · Jan 2026

Major product launch introducing Podium's AI Operating System for Aesthetics, powered by its AI employee Avery.

$3 Billion Customer-Management Startup Podium Laid Off 12% of Staff

Business Insider · Dec 2022

Business Insider reported Podium cut 12% of staff and reduced spending across the business.

Utah's Podium raises pre-IPO round, boosting its valuation to $3 billion

TechCrunch · Nov 2021

TechCrunch covered the Series D and noted Podium’s growth and valuation.

Podium Raises $201M in Series D Funding to Accelerate the Digital Evolution for Local Businesses

PR Newswire · Nov 2021

Podium announced a $201M Series D led by YC Continuity with participation from major VCs; the round valued the company at over $3B.

Podium Raises $125M in Series C Funding

PR Newswire · Apr 2020

Podium announced a $125M Series C led by YC Continuity with participation from multiple prior investors.

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SourcesPodium homepage (Exa entity / primary site)Podium Series D press release Podium Series C press release TechCrunch on Series D TechCrunch on Series C Business Insider layoffs report

Jobs and careers at Podium

68 jobs at Podium

Senior Compensation Manager

Remote

People Operations

Lehi, Utah, Open to Remote; Lehi, Utah, United States

Today

Remote

Full-time