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Yext has raised $312.0M across 5 funding rounds.
Key people at Yext.
Yext has raised $312.0M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Yext provides a digital presence platform for multi-location brands, centralizing the management and distribution of accurate information across online channels. Powered by AI and machine learning, its Knowledge Graph technology optimizes listings, reviews, social media, and local pages, ensuring consistent customer experiences across search and digital touchpoints.
Howard Lerman and Brian Distelburger founded Yext in 2006, starting as a lead generation service. A pivotal shift in 2012 saw the company sell its pay-per-call business, reorienting to focus on digital listings. This pivot underpinned their platform, advanced by the 2019 launch of their Search product.
The platform serves multi-location enterprises in financial services, healthcare, and retail. Yext’s vision empowers brands to control their digital information, ensuring they are found first, trusted most, and preferred by consumers across traditional and AI-powered search, delivering verified answers.
Key people at Yext.
Yext, Inc. is a leading digital presence platform designed primarily for multi-location brands across industries such as healthcare, hospitality, retail, food services, and financial services. Its cloud-based platform enables businesses to manage and control their digital knowledge—such as store locations, business hours, professional profiles, FAQs, and customer reviews—across a wide network of digital channels including maps, search engines, social media, and digital assistants. Yext leverages AI and machine learning to automate workflows, deliver consistent and accurate brand information, and provide actionable insights that help brands improve customer engagement and local SEO performance. The platform helps businesses turn their digital presence into a competitive differentiator, driving increased visibility, customer satisfaction, and conversion rates[1][2][3][5].
Yext was founded in 2006 by Howard Lerman and Brian Distelburger, initially starting as a lead generation service operating from a small office in New York City’s Columbus Circle. The company evolved its business model over time, shifting to a pay-per-call model by 2009. After selling off the pay-per-call segment, Yext refocused on digital listings and brand presence management, moving its headquarters to the historic Met Life Tower in New York City by 2012. This pivot laid the foundation for Yext’s current platform that centralizes and automates digital knowledge management for brands with multiple locations[3].
Yext operates at the intersection of digital transformation, local SEO, and AI-driven customer engagement. As consumers increasingly rely on digital search, voice assistants, and location-based services to find and interact with businesses, Yext’s platform addresses the critical need for brands to maintain accurate, consistent, and AI-readable information across all digital touchpoints. The timing is favorable due to the rise of AI search technologies and the growing complexity of managing digital presence at scale for multi-location enterprises. Yext’s influence extends beyond simple listings management by shaping how brands engage customers in an omnichannel digital ecosystem, thereby impacting marketing strategies and customer experience standards across industries[1][3][5].
Looking ahead, Yext is poised to deepen its AI capabilities and expand its integrations to keep pace with evolving search technologies and consumer behaviors. Trends such as voice search, AI-powered chatbots, and hyper-local marketing will likely shape Yext’s product roadmap and market relevance. As digital presence becomes increasingly central to brand success, Yext’s role as a platform that ensures data accuracy and drives customer engagement will grow, potentially expanding into new verticals and geographies. Its continued focus on customer success and innovation positions it well to maintain leadership in the digital knowledge management space[1][3][5][6].
Yext has raised $312.0M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Yext's investors include BlackRock, Deven Parekh, IVP, Marker, Sutter Hill Ventures, Rick Scanlon, CrunchFund, Michael Walrath, Ronald Conway, Dennis Phelps.
Yext has raised $312.0M across 5 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $200.0M Debt in May 2025.
| Date | Company | Round | Lead Investor(s) | Co-Investor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2025 | Orchard Robotics | $22.0M Series A | Quiet Capital, Shine Capital | Browder Capital, General Catalyst, Greylock, Ride Ventures, Howard Lerman, Nico Rosberg, Contrary Capital |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Peeko | $3.0M Seed | Mayank Jain | Amplify Partners, Spark Capital, V3 Ventures, Abhishek Goyal, Arjun Vaidya, Kunal Bahl, Maninder G., Nitin Gupta, Rohit Bansal |
| Jun 1, 2025 | Crosby | $6.0M Seed | Sequoia Capital | Alt Capital, Jana Messerschmidt, Browder Capital, Curie.Bio, Factor[e] Ventures, Founders Fund, FTX Ventures, IVP, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Meritech Capital Partners, Mischief Venture Capital, Operator Partners, Pareto Holdings, Redpoint Ventures, Saga, Summit Partners, TCV, The Hit Forge, Balaji Srinivasan, Christina Cacioppo, Dharmesh Shah, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Eric Wu, Fidji Simo, Gokul Rajaram, Immad Akhund, Jason Lemkin, Jonathan Neman, Joshua Reeves, Julian Shapiro, Justin Mateen, Karim Atiyeh, Max Mullen, Parker Conrad, Patrick Collison, Scott Belsky, Sean Rad, Siqi Chen, Tony Xu, Eric Glyman, Gil Shklarski, Jake Heller, Zach Weinberg, Bain Capital Ventures |
| Jun 1, 2025 | Open Access Energy | $2.0M Seed | — | Jana Messerschmidt, Factor[e] Ventures, IVP, Khosla Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Gokul Rajaram, Tony Xu |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Rogo | $50.0M Series B | — | Jana Messerschmidt, Factor[e] Ventures, IVP, Khosla Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Gokul Rajaram, Tony Xu |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Revel | $7.0M Seed | — | Jana Messerschmidt, Factor[e] Ventures, IVP, Khosla Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Eric Wu, Gokul Rajaram, Tony Xu |
| Feb 1, 2025 | Hightouch | $80.0M Series C | Sapphire Ventures | Amplify Partners, Spark Capital, V3 Ventures, Volition Capital |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Kick | $9.0M Seed | — | AirAngels, Alpine Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Amicus Capital, Baroda Ventures, B Capital Group, Bow Capital, Browder Capital, Davidovs VC, Fin Capital, Footprint Coalition, General Catalyst, Greylock, Idealab, Kickstart Fund, Lead Edge Capital, LGF, monashees, Mucker Capital, Hans Tung, Otherwise Fund, Picus Capital, Resolute Ventures, Seaside Ventures, Seguin Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SignalFire, Stellar Capital, TechSquare Labs, Tiger Global Management, Vera Equity, Vibe Capital, Wave Financial, Alexander Zhuravlev, Alex Zhuravlev, Bartek Pucek, Beau Laskey, Ding Zhou, Eddie Lou, Gokul Rajaram, Gregory Waldorf, Guilherme Bonifacio, Humberto Ayres Pereira, Jason Goldberg, Jason Lemkin, Karim Atiyeh, Kim Perell, Manik Gupta, Robert Moore, Ron Pragides, Sahil Lavingia, Scott Belsky, Youcef Es-skouri |
| Sep 1, 2024 | Rogo | $19.0M Series A | Khosla Ventures | Aglae Ventures, Alt Capital, Jana Messerschmidt, C2 Investment, Earl Grey Capital, Factor[e] Ventures, foobar.vc, Global Founders Capital, Gradient Ventures, Hyper, Innovation Endeavors, IVP, KRM Interests LLC, Lerer Hippeau, monashees, Northzone, Pareto Holdings, Placeholder, Redpoint Ventures, Saga, Sarona Ventures, ScOp Venture Capital, Seven Seven Six, Silicon Badia, The Hit Forge, Union Square Ventures, Volt Capital, Weekend Fund, Y Combinator, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, Ben Davenport, Ben Porterfield, Casey Neistat, Drew Houston, DROdio - Daniel R. Odio, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Florian Huber, Fredrik Hjelm, Gokul Rajaram, Mathilde Collin, Paul Yacoubian, Sahil Lavingia, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman, Scott Belsky, Stanley Tang, Tim Griffin, Tony Xu, Varsha Rao, William Hockey, Eric Schmidt, Jack Altman, Mantis VC |
| May 1, 2024 | Yupp | $33.0M Seed | — | 42CAP, 468 Capital, AAF Management Ltd., Alchemy Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Jana Messerschmidt, Begin Capital, Blockchange Ventures, Creandum, Daffy, Factor[e] Ventures, Founder Collective, Goat Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Hanabi Capital, Haun Ventures, HOF Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto, IVP, Khosla Ventures, LEA Partners, Mischief Venture Capital, Multicoin Capital, Pantera Capital, Pareto Holdings, Pi Labs, Polychain Capital, Robot Ventures, Rocketship.vc, Sherpalo Ventures, The Hit Forge, Anthony Pompliano, Balaji Srinivasan, Baris Gultekin, Ben Uretsky, Biz Stone, Cory Levy, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Girish Mathrubootham, Gokul Rajaram, Immad Akhund, Josh Elman, Kunal Shah, Mario Götze, Othman Laraki, Tony Xu, Vivek Patel, Youcef Es-skouri |
| May 1, 2024 | DatologyAI | $46.0M Series A | Felicis Ventures | 10100, 8VC, Amplify Partners, Insight Partners, Madrona Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Picus Capital, Race Capital, Radical Ventures, Summit Partners, Theory Ventures, Brian Distelburger, Gokul Rajaram, Immad Akhund, Jack Boren, Jonathan Swanson, Kyle Porter, Max Mullen, Mike Krieger, Oliver Cameron, Scot Wingo, Elad Gil, Amazon, M12 |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Momentic | $500K Seed | — | Accel, Browder Capital, General Catalyst, Greylock, UpHonest Capital, Y Combinator, Tom Blomfield |
| Mar 1, 2024 | Orchard Robotics | $3.0M Seed | — | AirAngels, Banana Capital, Benchmark, Browder Capital, Cyberlaunch, General Catalyst, Greylock, Initialized Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Makers Fund, Otherwise Fund, Pareto Holdings, Ride Ventures, Roosh Ventures, TQ Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, Y Combinator, Arash Ferdowsi, Cory Levy, Manuel Bronstein, Mattia Astori, Paul Graham |
| Feb 1, 2024 | Antithesis | $47.0M Seed | Amplify Partners | Felicis Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, SuperAngel.Fund, Howard Lerman, Michael Walrath, First In Ventures, Tamarack Global |
| Oct 1, 2023 | candidate.fyi | $1.0M Seed | — | Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Felicis Ventures, KRM Interests LLC, Obvious Ventures, SparkLabs Global Ventures, SuperAngel.Fund, Untapped Capital, Brian Distelburger, Kyle Porter, Luke Sherwin, Neil Parikh, Scot Wingo |
| Sep 1, 2023 | Roam | $1.0M Seed | Founders Fund | #ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS), Blockchain Capital, Blockchain Coinvestors AngelList Syndicate, Broadway Angels, Craig Shapiro, Daffy, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Electric Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Factor[e] Ventures, General Catalyst, IVP, Khosla Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Pareto Holdings, Robot Ventures, Slow Ventures, Summit Partners, The Hit Forge, Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Goldman, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Fidji Simo, Gokul Rajaram, Henry Kravis, Julie Zhuo, Stani Kulechov, Stanley Druckenmiller, Tony Xu |
| Aug 1, 2023 | Atmosfy | $12.0M Seed | Redpoint Ventures | Felicis Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Brian Distelburger, Kyle Porter, Scot Wingo, Canaan Partners, Convivialite Ventures, Industry Ventures, Progression Fund, Streamlined Ventures, Village Global |
| Aug 1, 2023 | FWD Creatives | $2.0M Seed | — | 2048 Ventures, Authentic Ventures, BoxGroup, Chemistry VC, Company Capital, CRV, Hanabi Capital, RRE Ventures, RTP Ventures, Saga, Sequoia Capital, South Park Commons, Stellar Capital, Adam D'Angelo, Alexander Sacerdote, Drew Houston, Frederic Kerrest, John Collison, Joshua Reeves, Tien Tzuo |
| Jul 1, 2023 | Hightouch | $38.0M Series B | Bain Capital Ventures | Amplify Partners, Spark Capital, V3 Ventures |
| May 1, 2023 | Firmbase | $12.0M Seed | S Capital VC | Awesome Ventures, Aya, B Capital Group, btov Partners, C2 Investment, Cherry Ventures, Crane Venture Partners, Cyberstarts VC, Entrée Capital Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meron Capital, MMC Ventures, Mouro Capital, Next47, NFX, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital Israel, Team8, Viola Ventures, Adam Wiggins, Ariel Maislos, Assaf Hefetz, Charlie Songhurst, Doron Alter, Gil Shai, Matthias Hilpert, Nir Eyal, Ofir Ehrlich, Omer Kaplan, Shai Morag, Tom Blomfield, Yair Weinberger, Yevgeny Dibrov, Yuval Shahar |
| Jan 1, 2023 | Arch | $3.0M Seed | — | Jana Messerschmidt, Battery Ventures, Connect Ventures, Emerge, Factor[e] Ventures, FinTech Collective, IVP, Khosla Ventures, MKT1 Capital, Pareto Holdings, Picus Capital, Y Combinator, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Chris Murphy, Chris Schagen, Dylan Field, Emily Kramer, Eric Wu, Gokul Rajaram, Mike Hudack, Ron Pragides, Tony Xu, Zack Kanter |
| Nov 1, 2022 | Roam | $41.0M Series A | IVP | 20VC, Jana Messerschmidt, Anti fund, Astir Ventures, Banana Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Buckley Ventures, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Factor[e] Ventures, Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, Insight Partners, Kepler Operator’s Fund, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Long Journey Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Gokul Rajaram, Jaan Tallinn, Josh Mohrer, Kunal Shah, Louis Beryl, Scott Banister, Shervin Pishevar, Tony Xu, Howard Lerman |
| Aug 1, 2022 | GreenPlaces | $4.0M Seed | Felicis Ventures | Amplifyher Ventures, Angular Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Jenny Fielding, INT3, Obvious Ventures, S3 Ventures, Volition Capital, Kyle Porter, Nitay Joffe, Scot Wingo, Yair Weinberger, Baker Shogry, Brian Distelburger, Howard Lerman, Jesse Lipson, Todd Olson, Bull City Venture Partners |
| Jul 1, 2022 | Pogo | $12.0M Seed | — | 1/1 Capital, 20VC, 7percent Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Accel, Adverb Ventures, AirAngels, Alchemy Ventures, Altair Capital Management, Alt Capital, Amplifyher Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Angel investor, AngelList, Anti fund, Audrey Capital, Bain Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Bombas, Brainchild, Buckley Ventures, C2 Investment, CapitalX, Casa Verde Capital, Climate Capital, Coalition Operators, Craft Ventures, Daffy, Matt Ocko, DNX Ventures, Double Down, DST Global, Earl Grey Capital, Jenny Fielding, Firework Ventures, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, Five Sigma, FJ Labs, Flex Capital, Flexsteel Industries Inc., Flucas Ventures, Footwork, Founders Fund, F Prime Capital, Fuel Capital, Geek Ventures, General Catalyst, Global Founders Capital, Greylock, GSV Acceleration, Gutter Capital, Heavybit, Heretic Ventures, Index Ventures, Infinite Niches, IVP, K2 Global, KAAN Ventures, LAUNCH, LGF, Logos Labs, Long Journey Ventures, Mantis VC, Monarch Collective, Musha Ventures, NextView Ventures, Not Boring Capital, NXTP Labs, Offline Ventures, Operator Ventures, Outcast Ventures, Paradigm, Pareto Holdings, Passion Capital, Pear VC, Point Nine Capital, Positive Sum VC, Precursor Ventures, Proton Enterprises, Prototype Capital, Quiet Capital, Reach Capital, Renegade Partners, Reshape Ventures, Resolute Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Shasta Ventures, Shrug Capital, SignalFire, Slow Ventures, Sound Ventures, SRB Ventures, Stripe, SV Angel, T-Bird Capital, The Hit Forge, Thomas Pentz, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Trajectory Ventures, Tribe Capital, Trust Fund, Uncork Capital, Unusual Ventures, Uprising, Version One Ventures, Vibe Capital, Alex Rodriguez, Volition Capital, Weekend Fund, XFactor Ventures, Y Combinator, Yes VC, Abe Burns, Abhinav Asthana, Adam Blitzer, Ahmir Khalib Thompson, Akshay Kothari, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Amit Jhawar, Anthony Pompliano, Babak Nivi, Baron Davis, Barr Moses, Chris Fanini, Christian Reber, Christina Cacioppo, Claire Hughes Johnson, Cory Levy, Cristina Cordova, Daniel Kan, David Jeske, Elad Gil, Fareed Mosavat, Farhad Mohit, Gee Roberson, George Ruan, Gokul Rajaram, Gwyneth Paltrow, Henry Davis, James Beshara, James Corden, Jan Deepen, Jason Citron, Job Van Der Voort, Joe Greenstein, John Collison, Johnny Boufarhat, Julian Shapiro, Karim Atiyeh, Kevin Hart, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Koen Bok, Kyle Vogt, Leore Avidar, Louis Beryl, Manik Gupta, Marc Benioff, Marcelo Sampaio, Marcy Simon, Mathilde Collin, Matt Brezina, Matthew Dellavedova, Max Mullen, Melissa Tan, Moshe Lifschitz, Neil Parikh, Nik Sharma, Odell Beckham Jr., Oliver Jung, Paul George, Paulo Silveira, Paul Yacoubian, Philippe Teixeira da Mota, Rafael Larragoiti Lucas, Roger Ehrenberg, Ron Pragides, Ryan Tedder, Sahil Lavingia, Sahin Boydas, Scott Belsky, Shane Neman, Siqi Chen, Stefan Jeschonnek, Steve Aoki, Tom Blomfield, Tony Hawk, Tyler Willis, Vinay Hiremath, Vindi Banga, William Hockey, Zehan Wang, Hyper, Jimmy Donaldson, Village Global |
| May 1, 2022 | Privyr | $6.0M Series A | MassMutual Ventures, Vulcan Capital | Defy Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Team8, Oliver Jung, Omer Kaplan, Yuval Shahar, Gwendolyn Regina, Nir Eyal, Wavemaker Partners |
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2025 | $200.0M Debt | BlackRock | |
| Jun 4, 2014 | $50.0M Series F | Deven Parekh | IVP, Marker, Sutter Hill Ventures |
| Jun 12, 2012 | $27.0M Series E | Rick Scanlon | CrunchFund, IVP, Sutter Hill Ventures, Michael Walrath |
| Jul 28, 2011 | $10.0M Series D | Michael Walrath | IVP, Sutter Hill Ventures, Ronald Conway |
| Oct 2, 2009 | $25.0M Series B | Dennis Phelps | Sutter Hill Ventures |