SOCi Raises $2.25M

What does SOCi do?

SOCi, is the next gen social media content discovery and marketing company. It brings the Big Brand social media campaign and promotion capabilities to the SMBs and their service providers. The company offers major national franchises, big brands and corporate marketing networks the ability to identify social content succeeding with the target audiences, using it for building programmatic content streams across all the big social platforms. The company has been nationally recognized and recently named as the SDX’s 2014 Innovator of the Year. It is a scalable platform for enterprise social marketing on major social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LiinkedIn.

How much SOCi was funded?

SOCi raised $2.25M on February 23, 2016 from David Klein, GrowthX, Trevor Healy,  Doug Hecht,  Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate, Taner Halicioglu and  Peter Fisher.

Previous funding

• $1.5M on November 17, 2014 from Peter Fisher and Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate

What is next for SOCi?

The company plans to use the proceeds from the latest funding for expanding into new sales verticals and continuing innovating its platform. it will also use the fund for helping multi-locations brands, enterprises, digital agencies and franchises in taking a more scientific and scalable approach to managing the social media. the company has hired over twenty new team members in the past year and will continue hiring aggressively this year.

More about SOCi

SOCi was founded in 2012 by Afif Khoury, Alo Sarv and Tony Rindsberg. It has its headquarters in San Diego, CA. The company has grown from serving just a few partners to nearly 100 representative from over 3,000 businesses, these include popular brands and enterprises like the Rhino Linings, Aflac, Sit n’ Sleep and VCA Animal Hospitals. The company also serves over 40% of the National Multifamily Housing Council’s 50 Largest Apartment Managers.

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