Wistia


Wistia Inc. is a video-software company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wistia provides video-hosting services for businesses, with analytics and marketing functionality. As of 2017, a claimed 300,000 companies use Wistia. As of 2018, Wistia had 87 employees.

History

Wistia was founded in 2006 by Brendan Schwartz and Chris Savage. The two founders met at Brown University, where Chris was a film student and Brendan was a computer engineering major. Wistia's first client was a medical devices company.

Funding

In 2018, Wistia raised $17 million worth of debt financing from Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private-equity firm.
Wistia also raised $200,000 in debt in 2009. Previously, the company raised $1.4 million in two rounds from angel investors, in 2008 and 2010. Angel investors include Renesys CEO Ashton Peery.
In 2018, Wistia reported annual revenue of $32M.

Awards and recognition

In 2018, G2 Crowd named Wistia one of the 25 best companies in Boston. In 2017, it was named one of the top company cultures in America by Entrepreneur magazine.