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Arbolus

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Overview

Arbolus provides an expert insights platform used by major consulting firms, hedge funds and private equity investors to source attributable B2B expertise. Its multi-product offering includes traditional expert calls, Canopy (an asynchronous video Q&A tool), Arbolus Insights (a proprietary B2B customer database) and survey capabilities for hard-to-reach audiences. The company says growth has been driven by product innovation and rising customer demand, with Canopy cited as a key adoption driver. Since its last round Arbolus has more than doubled revenue and grown its team to 180 employees. The business intends to continue developing product functionality and expanding commercial operations, particularly in the U.S. market. Arbolus is headquartered in London and also operates offices in New York, Barcelona and Delhi. Arbolus is a digital knowledge-sharing platform that enables companies to source the right industry professionals and gather information via multiple methods to produce unique data points. Founded in 2018 by Sam Glasswell and Will Leeming, the company is headquartered in London and maintains offices in New York, Barcelona and Delhi. It has expanded operations into the US, Spain and India and doubled its team to around 100 employees. The business reported that revenue tripled in the last year and that customer demand has increased. Arbolus intends to use the new funding to expand capacity to meet customer demand and to develop further products. The company positions its product offering around improving decision-making through access to expert knowledge and differentiated data. Arbolus builds an enterprise knowledge platform that captures recordings of expert interviews, transcribes them, and shares searchable knowledge across companies' internal networks using natural language processing and an AI backbone. Companies subscribe to the platform and pay software fees; Arbolus also collects transaction fees when firms pay independent experts on its marketplace. The three-year-old startup reports 7x year-over-year growth and works with more than 80 customers, including KPMG and UiPath. It has offices in Barcelona and New York and recently appointed Pau Beltran as CTO. Founders Sam Glasswell and Will Leeming previously scaled an expert agency and started Arbolus to prevent knowledge loss by better capturing and distributing external expertise. The product is positioned to make expert insights digestible, searchable, and usable across departments for months and years after interviews take place.

Total raised
$41M
Funding rounds
4
Latest round
Series B
Latest activity
Nov 2024

Industries

  • Information Technology
  • Knowledge Management
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Recent funding

  1. Series B

    Nov 2024

    $20M

  2. Series A

    May 2022

    $15M

  3. Equity

    Mar 2021

    $6M

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