Roost
Company

Last deal

Amount

Seed

Stage

01.04.2015

Date

3

all rounds

$710K

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
The Roost offers push notifications for websites.

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Also Known As

Notice Software

founded date

01.01.2009

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Seed

IPO status

Private

Description

Roost enables web publishers to identify their most loyal readers and consistently create new interactions with them, solving the problem of desktop push notifications being too cost and resource prohibitive for publishers to integrate with their websites.. Roost is a Y Combinator backed company located in NYC that provides a push notification technology designed to change the way people consume content on the web, with powerful feature sets including geolocation, A/B testing, and personalization.
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Their latest funding was raised on 01.04.2015. Their latest investor Hard Yaka. Their latest round Seed

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