# Talkable: Marketing & advertising, San Francisco, United States

> Talkable: Talkable is a premium enterprise referral marketing platform founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional...

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# Talkable

Talkable is a premium enterprise referral marketing platform founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Funding reported Last round: Undisclosed round

Marketing & advertising San Francisco, United States

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2010 16 years old
- **Team:** 45 11 to 50 people
- **Funding reported:** $4.2M in dollars
- **Last round:** Undisclosed round Jun 2017

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 Talkable 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)

## About Talkable

Talkable is a premium enterprise referral marketing platform founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Originally established as Curebit, Inc., the company rebranded to Talkable and focuses on helping e-commerce brands acquire and retain high-value customers through word-of-mouth endorsements. Talkable serves a diverse range of clients, including well-known brands like L'Occitane, Tarte, Rothy's, ALO Yoga, and TOMS, and has facilitated over $2 billion in referred sales. The platform offers a comprehensive, managed service for referral marketing, which includes end-to-end program management, advanced segmentation and targeting, built-in A/B testing, fraud intelligence, and detailed analytics. Talkable integrates seamlessly with major e-commerce platforms such as Magento and Shopify, making it an effective solution for B2B and retail companies, particularly in the e-commerce and direct-to-consumer sectors. The company operates on a subscription-based model, charging clients based on usage metrics and subscription fees.

## What company datasets say Talkable raised

Funding, as reported

Reported in all **$4.2M** in dollars

Rounds **4**

Last round **Undisclosed round**

Last round size **$3.0M**

Last round date **Jun 2017**

Investors listed **13**

Y Combinator **W11**

## Founders and team

From Talkable's own website: 5 founders, 21 on the team.

**Allan Grant** Founder, CEO & Chairman

**Bogdan Gusiev** Co-Founder

**Dominic Coryell** Co-Founder

**Jeff Yee** Co-Founder

**Nori Yoshida** Co-Founder

- **Alex Tucker** Chief Revenue Officer
- **Bohdan Zhuravel** Head of Code Review, Product
- **Caroline Hongo** VP of Finance
- **Jeremy Foreshew** Head of Marketing
- **Maksym Laba** Head of QA, Product
- **Oleksandr Bondar** Head of Infrastructure, Product
- **Alyona Kobzarenko** Director of Operations
- **Anastasiia Roman** Senior Product Data Analyst
- **Andrew Prudii** Sales Development Representative Team Lead
- **Dasha Fesyura** Senior Director of Campaign Management
- **Enver Ablyaev** Director of Engineering
- **Julia Ilchenko** Talent Partner
- **Kate Yermolaieva** Principal Customer Success Manager
- **Ksyusha Bespalova** Director of Product
- **Lia Sakharova** Campaign Manager
- **Michael Ramos** Customer Success Manager
- **Spencer Bailey** Senior Director of Customer Success
- **Summer Lindman** Board Member

And 3 more on the team.

## On 2 portfolio pages

Investors who name them

- [K5 Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/k5-ventures)
- [Reinmkr Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/reinmkr-capital)

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

## The company, in detail

What they build

Known for

consumers customer engagement email marketing enterprises multi-channel campaigns ecommerce marketing information technology & services customer-generated content video referrals influencer & ambassador campaigns enterprise software information technology growth marketing referral programs software as a service ecommerce

Built with from their website

GitHub Actions Salesforce CRM Google Tag Manager Amazon Elastic Container Registry Amazon CloudFront WordPress.org Font Awesome Sphinx MailChimp TeamCity

+8 more

Google Workspace CloudFlare Viewport Meta Element UI Groovy Caddy Hubspot PostgreSQL

- **Sector:** Marketing & advertising
- **Industry code:** NAICS 54161, 513210, 541890, SIC 7389, 7372, 7311
- **Region:** California
- **Revenue:** $8.0M a year, as listed
- **Full record:** [Every detail in the company directory](https://millionrounds.com/directory/talkable)

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