--- title: "Dear Customers: We Raised $3.35M to Build You Something ... | Crayon" description: "Dear Customers: We Raised $3.35M to Build You Something Amazing Posted by Jonah Lopin on November 10th, 2016. I’m psyched to announce great news for Crayon customers today: we raised a round of..." image: https://www.crayon.co/hubfs/series-b-social-promo.png --- ![Close](https://www.crayon.co/hubfs/Header%20Images/close-ic.svg) # The 2026 State of Competitive Intelligence report is here See what separates the programs that win. **[Read the report](https://www.crayon.co/state-of-competitive-intelligence-2026?utm_source=website-banner&utm_medium=announcement&utm_campaign=soci-2026)** [![CRAYON, Inc](https://www.crayon.co/hubfs/Logo.svg) ![CRAYON, Inc](https://www.crayon.co/hubfs/Logo.svg) ](https://www.crayon.co/) - [Product](https://www.crayon.co/competitive-intelligence-analysis) - [Crayon AI](https://www.crayon.co/product/crayon-ai) - [Aggregate](https://www.crayon.co/product/aggregate) - [Organize](https://www.crayon.co/product/organize) - [Publish](https://www.crayon.co/product/publish) - [Enable](https://www.crayon.co/product/enable) - [Measure](https://www.crayon.co/product/measure) - [Integrations](https://www.crayon.co/integrations) - [Resources](https://www.crayon.co/resources) - [Library](https://www.crayon.co/resources) - [Blog](https://www.crayon.co/blog) - [Case Studies](https://www.crayon.co/case-studies) - [Battlecard Templates](https://www.crayon.co/success/modern-battlecard-blueprint) - [AI Toolkit](https://www.crayon.co/ai-toolkit) - Company - [About Us](https://www.crayon.co/about) - [Careers](https://www.crayon.co/careers) - [Partner Directory](https://www.crayon.co/partners) - [Get a Demo](https://www.crayon.co/get-a-demo) - [Log In](https://app.crayon.co/login/) ## Crayon Competitive Intelligence blog [Back to all posts](https://www.crayon.co/blog) # Dear Customers: We Raised $3.35M to Build You Something Amazing ![Picture of ](https://www.crayon.co/hubfs/JonahWEBSQ.jpg) [ Jonah Lopin](https://www.crayon.co/blog/author/jonah-lopin) on Thu, Nov 10, 2016 Reading Time: 3 mins - - - - [mailto:info@example.com?&subject=&cc=&bcc=&body=https://www.crayon.co/blog/dear-customers-we-raised-335m-to-build-you%0A](mailto:info@example.com?&subject=&cc=&bcc=&body=https://www.crayon.co/blog/dear-customers-we-raised-335m-to-build-you%0A) I’m psyched to announce great news for Crayon customers today: we raised a round of funding from some of the best investors in the world, and we’re going to use the capital to build you an (even more :) amazing product. We believe marketing & sales teams can get massive leverage by ingesting data from the external environment, and then organizing and storing that data, and mining it for actionable insights. We’re honored to be working with tens of thousands of you – the best sales & marketing teams – and partnering with you on this journey to unlock the critical market insights embedded in signals on the web and the physical world. We’re [**hiring stars**](https://www.crayon.co/jobs/) across the company, so if you live in Boston and you’re awesome at what you do, we’d love to meet you. If you want to learn more about the funding round, check out these thoughtful articles: - [Crayon, startup co-founded by HubSpot alumni, gets more money](http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2016/11/10/crayon-startup-co-founded-by-hubspot-alumni-gets.html) - [Crayon Raises a $3.4M Seed, Looks Beyond Marketing](http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2016/11/10/crayon-seed-founder-collective-backs-market-intelligence-startup/) - [HubSpot Vet Grabs Cash For Crayon to Help Marketers Track Competitors](http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2016/11/10/hubspot-vet-grabs-cash-for-crayon-to-help-marketers-track-competitors/) - [Crayon Is Bringing Your Marketing & Sales Teams The Competitive Intelligence They Crave](http://venturefizz.com/blog/crayon-bringing-your-marketing-sales-teams-competitive-intelligence-they-crave) You can also read our [**press release**](http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crayon-raises-335m-to-help-marketers-track-competitors-in-real-time-300360715.html), if you’re into that. What next steps do we recommend, you ask? These are good: 1. If you’re great at what you do and you are intrigued by our plans for inter-galactic domination, please **[check out our jobs page](https://www.crayon.co/jobs/)** 2. Tweet, comment, email us (goodtimes[at]crayon[dot]co), or spread the word - help us share the love ## Not a Crayon user yet? 1. **[Sign up for Crayon](https://www.crayon.co/signup/)** (it’s free) 2. If you’re on a sales team or a marketing team, please [**request a demo**](https://www.crayon.co/success/demo/)  or a [**free report**](https://www.crayon.co/success/free-report/) Have an awesome Thursday! ![Picture of ](https://www.crayon.co/hubfs/JonahWEBSQ.jpg) ![](https://www.crayon.co/hubfs/Website_Assets/Images/author-frame-1.png) [ Jonah Lopin](https://www.crayon.co/blog/author/jonah-lopin) Jonah Lopin is our Chief Executive Officer here at Crayon, a company that he co-founded in 2015 to help businesses see and seize opportunities for competitive advantage. 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