Respondology, a Boulder, CO-based social media comment moderation and intelligence company, raised additional $5M in Series A-1 funding.
Backers included Iron Gate Capital, SJF Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Boulder Heavy Industries (BHI), and RLB Holdings.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its product development, expand the team and scale go-to-market efforts.
Led by CEO Erik Swain, Respondology provides a comment activation platform that gives marketers the chance to listen, learn, and act. Its platform moderates comments and surfaces actionable insights from what the audience is talking about in seconds.
The platform also operates in over 100 languages and provides two flagship products:
- Moderate, which protects brands in real-time from toxic comments, abuse, spam, and bots; and
- Discover, which delivers valuable insights by analyzing comment trends and sentiment.
The company now serves over 450 brands across sports, entertainment, consumer goods, and marketing agencies, collectively protecting over two billion followers by moderating over 365 million comments globally.
