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HubSpot is a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that develops and markets a software product for inbound marketing also called HubSpot. The software has features for social media marketing, email marketing, content management, web analytics and search engine optimization among others. HubSpot was founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. Originally funded by Shah and a faculty member at MIT, it raised more than $100 million in funding from Larry Bohn, General Catalyst Partners, David Skok, Matrix Partners, Rob Theis, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, SalesForce and Fidelity. The company advocates for the inbound marketing concept in its own marketing through viral videos, Twitter, webinars and an annual inbound marketing report. ==Corporate history== HubSpot was founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006. Shah invested $500,000, which was followed by angel investments from Edward B. Roberts, the chair of the Entrepreneurship Center at MIT and angels including fellow MIT Sloan classmate and Entrepreneur Brian Shin.〔 〕 The company introduced the HubSpot software in beta in 2006 and officially launched it in December 2007. An additional $5 million in funding was raised in 2007,〔 which was followed by $12 million in May 2008, and $16 million in late 2009. The company grew from $255,000 in revenues the first year the software was released to $15.6 million in 2010.〔 The company's first office was a small bay on the 14th floor of the Cambridge Innovation Center. By 2008, the company occupied over half of the 5th floor of the CIC. In the summer of 2010, HubSpot moved its offices into the Lechmere neighborhood of Cambridge MA. In 2011 it raised $32 million in venture funding〔 and acquired marketing automation vendor Performable. Later that year HubSpot announced its acquisition of oneforty. Oneforty began as an app store for Twitter, but shifted into an online resource for social media marketing.〔 The company also introduced new software for personalizing websites to each visitor. According to ''Forbes'', HubSpot started out targeting companies of 1–10 employees, but "moved steadily upmarket to serve larger businesses of up to 1000 employees." HubSpot raised $32 million in additional venture funding in February 2012 from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Salesforce and others. In March 2012, HubSpot acquired Google Chrome notification center company, Chime, by Fahd Ananta, Thariq Shihipar and Guru Mahendran. At the 2013 annual Inbound Marketing Conference, HubSpot announced a software product for sales staff called Signals (now called Sidekick). By December 2013, Sidekick had 26,000 users and HubSpot set it up as a separate startup within the company. HubSpot filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 25, 2014 for listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HUBS.〔(FORM S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933: HubSpot, Inc. )〕 In July 2015, Hubspot's CMO Mike Volpe was dismissed for violating HubSpot’s code of business conduct and ethics code after an independent investigation overseen by its board of directors found that he tried to procure a draft copy of a book about the origins of the company.〔(beta Boston )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HubSpot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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