# Payload: CMS

> Payload: Payload CMS is a headless CMS and application framework designed to improve collaboration among developers, marketers, and product owners.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/startup/payload-2 (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Payload

Payload CMS is a headless CMS and application framework designed to improve collaboration among developers, marketers, and product owners.

Funding reported Last round: Grant

CMS

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2018 8 years old
- **Team:** 11 11 to 50 people
- **Funding reported:** 5.5M as listed, currency not stated
- **Last round:** Grant Oct 2023

How sure we are

- ✓ **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

No round for Payload has been confirmed by a filing or an announcement yet, so nothing here counts toward an investor's record. [How we decide](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)

## What company datasets say Payload raised

Funding, as reported

Reported in all **5.5M** in the source's currency

Rounds **4**

Last round **Grant**

Last round date **Oct 2023**

Investors listed **8**

Y Combinator **S22**

## On 2 portfolio pages

Investors who name them

- [Grand Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/grand-ventures)
- [Gradient](https://millionrounds.com/fund/gradient-ventures)

Each firm lists Payload on its own website. That is the firm's claim, a weaker thing than a round we watched, but a named source.

## CMS in the same market

Startups like it

- [**Aftercompany** Startup](https://millionrounds.com/startup/aftercompany)
- [**Qurate Inc. (Japan)** founded 2014](https://millionrounds.com/startup/qurate-inc-japan)
- [**Perfect Sense Digital** founded 2008](https://millionrounds.com/startup/perfect-sense-digital)
- [**Monsido (now part of Optimere)** Boston · founded 2014](https://millionrounds.com/startup/monsido-now-part-of-optimere)
- [**Kwiktag** founded 1997](https://millionrounds.com/startup/kwiktag)
- [**Ninetailed** Berlin · founded 2021](https://millionrounds.com/startup/ninetailed)
- [**Forrit** Edinburgh · founded 2014](https://millionrounds.com/startup/forrit)
- [**congresse.me** founded 2018](https://millionrounds.com/startup/congresse-me-2)

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