Companies · SaaS / Software
San Francisco · CA, USA · SaaS / Software · founded 2012 · https://padlet.com
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Padlet — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Padlet: limited disclosed financing to assess.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Padlet is one of 381 SaaS / Software companies tracked from San Francisco, CA, USA, on record since 2012. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 86% of sector peers), and in the upper tier by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst”
Papyrus → Parchment → Paper → Padlet
We are easily bored. It's the one thing that unites humanity in 2020. No one wants to read twenty paragraphs of text, or sit through forty verbose slides. Yet, we keep making them, boring everyone out of their minds. We are building more beautiful and fun alternatives to traditional documents. They're less of a pain-in-the-ass to create, and a lot less waterboard-y to view. Checkout a Padlet timeline (https://padl.et/timeline), or a Padlet map (https://padl.et/map) to see what we're talking about. Over ten million people all over the world use Padlet. Most satisfyingly, for millions of kids, Padlet is their first experience of creating things on the Internet. People say we are improving education. People say we are making them more creative. People say a lot of things.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
No round amounts on record to chart.
No staged rounds to sequence.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 381 companies in SaaS / Software. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 86% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 86% of peers (estimate).
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No rounds recorded. | |||||
Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Padlet is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | SaaS / Software | — | — | — | same sector |
| 500Friends | SaaS / Software | — | — | — | same sector |
| Abbot | SaaS / Software | — | — | — | same sector |
| Actiondesk | SaaS / Software | — | — | — | same sector |
| Advantage Club | SaaS / Software | — | — | — | same sector |
| Aerotime | SaaS / Software | — | — | — | same sector |
| AgendaPro | SaaS / Software | — | — | — | same sector |
| Airshared | SaaS / Software | — | — | — | same sector |
Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HackPad A realtime wiki for getting things done. | — | — | — | 74% |
| Stempad Notion for science | — | — | — | 72% |
| Launchpad Toys Creativity at Play. Tablet toys. Acquired by Google, 2015. | Gaming | — | — | 71% |
| Clayboard Create active, collaborative learning experiences | SaaS / Software | — | — | 71% |
| Clay, Inc. Figma for 3D design | SaaS / Software | Seed | $79.3M | 70% |
| Livedocs A New Kind of Notebook for Data Storytelling | SaaS / Software | — | — | 69% |
| Clever The platform that powers technology in the classroom. | SaaS / Software | — | — | 69% |
| Tasklet Agents that own the work | AI / ML | — | — | 69% |
See where Padlet sits in the wider market — its sector, location and stage cohorts, each with their own leaderboards and capital-flow timelines.
If you work at Padlet, claim this profile or suggest a correction. We aggregate from public filings, so help us keep your description, website and links accurate.
Is this your company? Update your profile or add contact details — and choose exactly who can reach you. Reviewed before anything is published.