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Galant: Muck Rack reached $50M ARR before raising $180M in 2022

Gregory Galant · How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS · Apr 25, 2024 · at 0:57

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Gregory Galant, co-founder and CEO of Muck Rack, introduces his keynote on bootstrapping and scaling the PR software platform.

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“I'm going to tell you about how we scaled our way up, ah, to over fifty million in ARR, which is about our size when we did our hundred and eighty million dollar round in 2022.”

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The claim, plainly

Muck Rack had scaled to over $50 million in ARR by the time it raised a $180 million funding round in 2022.

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Assessment

Muck Rack raised a $180 million Series A minority investment led by Susquehanna Growth Equity in September 2022. While the company's initial September 2022 press releases omitted exact revenue figures, subsequent public disclosures by CEO Gregory Galant (including his October 2023 SaaStock keynote titled 'The Journey of Bootstrapping To 50M ARR and then Raising a $180 Million Series A') and industry intelligence reports from Sacra confirm that Muck Rack had reached the $50 million ARR milestone prior to closing the 2022 round.

September 7, 2022 press release confirmed Muck Rack raised a $180 million Series A investment led by Susquehanna Growth Equity.
Gregory Galant presented a keynote at SaaStock Dublin in October 2023 titled 'The Journey of Bootstrapping To 50M ARR and then Raising a $180 Million Series A'.
SaaS intelligence firm Sacra verified that Muck Rack reached approximately $50 million in ARR prior to its September 2022 Series A round.

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[1] businesswire.com [2] businessinsider.com [3] swordandthescript.com [4] saastock.com [5] getlatka.com [6] getlatka.com [7] sacra.com [8] sacra.com

"Muck Rack" "50M" OR "50 million" ARR after:2022-01-01 before:2024-01-01 Muck Rack Series A 180 million TechCrunch ARR 2022 Muck Rack 180 million funding round 2022 ARR revenue "Muck Rack" "annual recurring revenue" 2022

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