Sitemate, a software company specializing in no-code platforms for built world companies, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Blackbird, with participation from existing investors Shearwater Capital and Marbruck. Over the past year, Sitemate has experienced rapid growth, doubling its headcount from 70 to 140 employees and acquiring and rebranding the software startup Nomad Fleet, now known as Gearbelt.
The company has expanded globally with offices in London, Vancouver, and Toronto, and plans to establish a dedicated go-to-market team in Austin, Texas, to cover the central United States in 2025. Sitemate operates as a multi-product SaaS company, offering built-world companies software tools under the Sitemate brand. Instead of creating an all-in-one software with rigid modules, Sitemate provides a suite of products similar to Atlassian’s offerings.
This allows companies to choose and deploy any of Sitemate’s products to address specific pain points and workflows, while also benefiting from additional commercial and integration opportunities. The company believes that built-world companies need the flexibility and customization options offered by original no-code legacy systems like Microsoft Word and Excel, combined with simple interfaces.
Sitemate’s global expansion continues
Sitemate’s platforms consist of flexible no-code building blocks that can be configured to meet the unique needs of various industries, regions, and compliance requirements. Despite their versatility, each platform and mobile app remains user-friendly due to their focused scope. “Since we launched Sitemate in August 2018, over six years ago, we have grown every single month consecutively, and our growth rate is still increasing year over year,” said Sitemate co-founder and CEO Hartley Pike.
“We see so many built world companies struggle to adopt and use clunky ‘all-in-one’ systems, which force many of them to move back to legacy formats like Word and Excel and even paper, because at least paper, Word and Excel are flexible and familiar. It’s working. We have incredibly strong product adoption, retention, and word of mouth because of the flexibility and ease of use of our products.”
“We don’t want to compete with general business software or build ‘horizontal’ software tools.
We are focusing solely on designing built world-specific tooling and then plugging into the general business stack like accounting software, CRMs, and the Microsoft suite through seamless integrations,” added Sitemate co-founder and VP of Product Strategy Sam McDonnell. The new funding will be used to enhance product development and engineering efforts, as well as to expand Sitemate’s global market presence and customer base. Blackbird Partner Tom Humphrey praised the company, stating, “One of Sitemate’s core values is ‘Everything Engineered.’ They launched Sitemate with a long-term vision and deep roadmap in mind and have been intentional and ‘engineered’ every step along the way.”
April Isaacs is a news contributor for DevX.com She is long-term, self-proclaimed nerd. She loves all things tech and computers and still has her first Dreamcast system. It is lovingly named Joni, after Joni Mitchell.
