Hightouch

Customer Data Platforms (CDP) & Reverse ETL
$374Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
3open roles
$400kmedian advertised pay
$322Mlatest round · Venture round · Jun 2026 · 4 mo ago

Overview

Hightouch is a customer data platform that syncs data from existing warehouses to tools like CRMs, email marketing platforms, and ad networks. It helps businesses use their data for personalized marketing, improving customer engagement and campaign performance. With a no-code interface, Hightouch simplifies data integration while avoiding duplication, ensuring data integrity and security.

Funding and backers

Total raised
$374M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$322M
Venture round · Jun 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
146
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Apr 2026 · -41% in a year
Hiring now
6
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
10
Y Combinator, NFX
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
42/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 14 First role in Australia Field Marketing Manager (APAC) Aug 4 First role in Spain Enterprise Account Executive, Spain Jul 21 First role in France Enterprise Account Executive, Paris Jun 22 Raised a round Venture round $322M · adweek May 20 First role in Canada Solutions Engineer, Enterprise East (Pre-Sales) 2026 Team shrank to 146 was 246 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Mar 24 First role in Singapore Enterprise Account Executive, APAC (Japan) Jan 20 First executive search Head of Machine Learning Nov 14, 2025 On the Hacker News front page A race condition in Aurora RDS · 241 points Jun 16, 2025 First role in United Kingdom Mid-Market Account Executive, EMEA 2025 Team of 246 was 129 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Jan 10, 2025 Partnership Hightouch Partners with Databricks to Launch Self-Service AI-powered Audience Management Solution for Offsite Retail Media Networks, Spanning 50+ Med… · PRNewswire Jan 25, 2023 Launched Hightouch Unveils Personalization API, Combining the Analytical Power of the Data Warehouse with a Real-Time API · PRNewswire Apr 19, 2022 Acquisition Hightouch acquires Product-Led Sales automation startup Workbase · PRNewswire Nov 18, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $40M Jul 29, 2021 Raised a round Series A $12M Jun 2019 Went through Y Combinator 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
10
best: 241 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jun 2026 $322M — adweek
Venture round Nov 2021 $40M — forbes.com
Series A Jul 2021 $12M — forbes.com
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$400k
Typical range
$240k – $430k
Open positions
6
4 Jobs
Junior 25%
Senior 25%
Staff 50%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $240k $240k
Senior 1 $430k $430k
Staff 2 $400k $400k
Highest paying role RVP, Enterprise Sales East $430k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Hightouch By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
32/100
Slowing
Open positions
6
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
114 days
faster than 10% of the market
Hiring Dynamics -45%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
25%
Solutions
16% ▼
Backend
13% ▲
Product
13% ▼
Customer Success
13% ▼
Administrative
6% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added HubSpot to stack Oct 2026
Added Fine-tuning to stack Oct 2026
New location: Spain Sep 2026
Removed Rest API from stack Sep 2026
Removed Windows from stack Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
New location: Vancouver Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Sep 2026

Financials

Total raised
$374M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $322M $2.8B Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $40M $450M Details
Series A 2021 $12M — Details

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Hightouch over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
47
Postings analysed
51
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL33%
JavaScript8%
Python4%
TypeScript4%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js4%
GSAP2%
Next.js2%
Pandas2%
Databases
Snowflake18%
Google BigQuery8%
Cloud & platforms
Databricks12%
Amazon Kinesis4%
Apache Kafka4%
Braze2%
AI & ML
LLM4%
Claude2%
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Work LifeVia a fund
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News

News Music Business Worldwide 2 months ago
Suno hires ex-Hightouch CFO Cherry Miao as its first finance chief: 'Music is one of the things that makes humans human'
Miao oversaw finance, legal, data and revenue operations at Hightouch, and had been both a customer and an angel investor in the company before joining it.
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News adweek 5 months ago
Hightouch Raised $322 Million Across Six Rounds. Here's How the Company Skyrocketed to a $2.75 Billion Valuation
Co-founder Kashish Gupta says good investors care about metrics and customers, not slides. A round-by-round look at how every deal came together.
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News amplifypartners.com 10 months ago
How Hightouch built their long-running agent harness - Amplify Partners
A story of real context engineering: how Hightouch's engineers built a long running agent that smoothly handles sparse and open ended marketing tasks.
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Award adweek 11 months ago
The 2025 Tech Stack Awards: AI, UX, Data, and CRM Solutions to Your 21st Century Problems
The best products and platforms driving proven revenue impact in marketing, advertising, and media.
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News hightouch.com 1 year ago
How we Uncovered a Race Condition in Aurora RDS
See how we diagnosed and confirmed an AWS Aurora RDS race condition impacting failovers.
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News AdExchanger 1 year ago
CDP Hightouch Has A Shortcut For Making UIDs
Hightouch's new ID Express solution aims to simplify the process of converting email addresses and phone numbers into UID2s.
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Award Digiday 1 year ago
The Walt Disney Company, Grammarly and Intuit Mailchimp are 2025 Digiday Technology Awards winners
This year's Digiday Technology Awards celebrate companies that are embracing AI and automation tools to enhance personalized experiences, enable precise targeting and drive performance across platforms and channels.
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News hightouch.com 1 year ago
How Hightouch brings complete customer history from the data warehouse to real-time marketing
How we built an enterprise-scale streaming audience engine that brings complete customer data to same-session personalization
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News hightouch.com 1 year ago
Top 10 reasons organizations are moving to Composable CDPs
Composable CDPs can help you avoid some of the common issues that plague packaged CDPs and help you better leverage data in your warehouse.
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News Business Insider 1 year ago
Customer data startup Hightouch raises new funding at $1.2 billion valuation in round led by Sapphire Ventures
With its $80 million funding round, Hightouch becomes a startup unicorn. It uses AI to transform marketing and sales, rivaling Salesforce and Twilio.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
1
Countries
3
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
San Francisco Office
1 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 100% remote $430k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Mar 2022 careers board
New York United States
Regional office
New York Office
4 posted in 90 days
seen since Mar 2024 careers board
London United Kingdom
Regional office
London
2 posted in 90 days
seen since Jun 2025 careers board
Sydney Australia
Regional office
Sydney
1 posted in 90 days
seen since Aug 2026 careers board
Earlier presence
Paris, France 2 open roles · last posting Sep 2026
Singapore, Singapore 1 open roles · last posting Mar 2026