Postoplan, an automated marketing platform for social media and messengers that enables creation and planning of content, has announced a $1.5M investment round from lead investor TMT Investments accompanied by YellowRockets. It is the world’s first platform for the creation and automatic publication of content on WhatsApp.
July 22, 2021 —
The company plans to spend the funds to strengthen its position on the U.S. market and to continue development and improvement of the platform’s algorithm. Postoplan is the only social media management platform based on SaaS Freemium business model. The startup aims to help small and medium businesses by providing free subscriptions with no time limits and reducing the time of SMM manager’s work by 40%.
The platform is competing with the biggest players on the market — Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social. Thanks to its unique at the market business model, over the period of 14 months the team reached revenue of more than $1M and demonstrated the average annual revenue growth +20% MoM, serving more than 100,000 clients across the world.
Alex Bozhin, CEO and founder of Postoplan
“We see demand from the small and medium business for a solution that would enable them to try all the platform features without time limits and to decide whether they want to pay for it. In the challenging post-pandemic era, we believe it is our responsibility to contribute to economic recovery. So, we let our users use a free subscription with no time limits. And it works, as more than 15,000 clients have stayed with us and purchased premium subscriptions. This rate of retention is 5% higher than the average market benchmark,” notes Alex Bozhin, CEO and founder of Postoplan.
Startup’s largest markets are the U.S., Great Britain, Spain, and Mexico. Together, they account for 70% of all sales. In spite of the growing interest from the emerging markets, the company is planning its expansion in the U.S. and increasing partnership networks in diverse B2B and B2C industries. The platform operates on social media and messengers: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, LinkedIn, and can be synchronized with Slack and Google My Business.
“Postoplan is very successful in the upward trend of advertising and marketing in social networks. Alexey and his team managed to create a powerful product, and we believe it will grow fast”, notes Artyom Inutin, co-founder and Managing Partner of TMT Investments Venture Fund.
The platform’s interface is available in 14 languages and offers the users both the setup of automatic posting and a built-in graphic editor for content creation. At the moment, the platform’s algorithms help to generate 70% more traffic and subscribers on social media, which is confirmed by 56% of clients that have noted an increase in user engagement and audience outreach. Moreover, the platform offers unlimited accounts, users and projects.
About Postoplan
Postoplan is an automated marketing platform for social media and messengers that enables creation of content and planning of its publication. The platform’s algorithms help to generate 70% more traffic and subscribers on social media and reduce the time of work by 40%. It’s the world’s first platform for creation and automatic publication of content on WhatsApp.
Founded in 2020, the company is focused on the SMB segment. The company’s mission is to help small businesses run their social media, cut social media marketing costs and make operations more effective.
The startup’s business model is based on SaaS Freemium format, similar to that of Slack and Trello. The users can use free subscription with no time limits or try the premium features for free for 7
days. Postoplan is the only platform with such a business model on the market of social media content management platforms.
