Strikingly’s core product is a website builder optimized for quick, polished mobile-responsive sites and an editor that the company says can launch a site in about 10 minutes. The company has added a mobile website editor and a reseller program that lets partners buy sites in bulk and manage clients via a dashboard; the reseller program has users in 70 countries. Strikingly doubled its team over the past year from 150 to 300 employees. The company has an office in Shanghai and has become a leading website-building SaaS solution in China through partnerships with Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud and ZBJ. Management plans to continue growing the reseller program in Asia, add more features to help resellers with customer acquisition, and expand in China beyond core website building into enterprise service marketplaces. Strikingly offers a mobile-responsive website-building platform and a standalone mobile app that lets users create, manage and publish sites using only smartphones. The product emphasizes starting with a single landing page and expanding functionality with e-commerce tools, blogs, mobile apps and other features for growing businesses. It targets entrepreneurs, freelancers, design agencies and power users, and has launched a reseller program to reach agencies. The company reports users in about 200 countries, a 90% retention rate, and says 96% of surveyed users would recommend the platform. Strikingly became profitable in its second month after launch (initially "ramen profitability") and grew organically for five years before this round. The team has doubled headcount to 150, with many new hires in product development, and plans to invest in user acquisition and new features to expand in emerging markets. Strikingly, based in San Francisco, provides a platform that allows users to create web and mobile sites that are search engine optimized and connectable to social media. Its platform includes page analytics and a contact form/email collector to connect with users directly. The solution has been used by customers such as Majestic Media and Kip Solutions. The company was founded by David Chen. Strikingly raised seed funding and intends to use the capital to hire new people. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$18M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Sep 2018