MoEngage raises $77 Million in Series E funding led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and B Capital

MoEngage’s Multi-Channel Customer Engagement platform registered 2x growth in business and doubled its global team in 2021.

San Francisco, Jun 1, 2022 — MoEngage, the insights-led customer engagement platform, today announced that it has raised USD 77 million in Series E funding. This round is led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and B Capital, with participation from the company’s existing investors Steadview Capital, Multiples Alternate Asset Management, Eight Roads Ventures, and Matrix Partners India. This is the third round of funding raised by the company in the last 12 months, with $32.5 million raised in July and $30 million in December  2021.

MoEngage will use the additional funds to deepen its geographic footprint in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Middle East markets, and expand in new markets like Latin America and Australia. The funds will also be used to explore strategic acquisitions that can help extend its platform capabilities and provide more value to customers.

Raviteja Dodda, Co-Founder and CEO of MoEngage said “Our rapid growth and the leadership position is a validation that consumer brands today are moving beyond campaign-centric tools and adopting an insights-led multi-channel approach to customer engagement. We now have over 1200 customers in 35 countries and more than 650 employees across our offices in the U.S., UK, Germany, UAE, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand.”

In the last 12 months, MoEngage has grown its annualized recurring revenue (ARR) by over 105%, added 500 new customers, and doubled its headcount to more than 650 employees worldwide. The company has a very healthy annualized net revenue retention of over 135% and was named a “Strong Performer” in Q3 2021, Forrester Wave report for Cross-Channel Campaign Management.

Rajat Sood, a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said: “We anticipate the continued expansion of the marketing automation and analytics industry. As companies seek to better engage customers across digital channels, MoEngage’s leading technology platform provides marketers with insightful, real-time data, enabling them to orchestrate and run effective campaigns to build and retain customer relationships to enhance customer lifetime value. We look forward to leveraging our global resources and network to support the ambitions and continued growth of the company.”

“We are excited to welcome MoEngage to our growing portfolio of cross-border SaaS investments. MoEngage is an AI-first platform helping companies retain customers and give insights on user journeys across channels. It helps companies engage and retain over 1 billion users on the platform globally. We are thrilled to partner with Ravi, Yashwanth, and the entire MoEngage team as they build an insights-led customer engagement platform across the world,” said Kabir Narang, Founding General Partner at B Capital Group.

“Connecting with our customers in a meaningful way is a key part of our success as a business. MoEngage helps us gain actionable insights at our fingertips so we can create the most relevant experiences for our customers and scale our personalized outreach across channels” said Deepak Thakral, Vice President of Consumer Commerce at McAfee.

About MoEngage

MoEngage is an insights-led customer engagement platform, trusted by more than 1,200 global consumer brands such as Ally Financial, McAfee, Flipkart, Domino’s, Nestle, Deutsche Telekom, Travelodge, and more. MoEngage empowers marketers and product owners with insights into customer behavior and the ability to act on those insights to engage customers across the web, mobile, email, social, and messaging channels. Consumer brands across 35 countries use MoEngage to power digital experiences for over 1 billion customers every month. With offices in ten countries, MoEngage is backed by Goldman Sachs, B Capital, Steadview Capital, Multiples Private Equity, Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital, Matrix Partners, Ventureast, and Helion Ventures.

MoEngage has been named as a “Strong Performer” in the Q3 2021 Forrester Wave report for Cross-Channel Campaign Management and as a “Leader” in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms. MoEngage was recognized as one of the “Top 25 Highest Rated Private Cloud Computing Companies To Work For” by Battery Ventures in 2021.

To learn more, visit www.moengage.com

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