PostHog at a glance
Question | Answer | As of |
|---|---|---|
Who owns PostHog? | Its founders, staff and investors including Stripe, Peak XV, GV and Y Combinator; it is private | Nov 2026 |
Valuation | $1.4 billion (Series E) | Sep 2025 |
Total raised | About $194 million in six rounds | Oct 2025 |
Revenue | Not published as a number; ARR in the “multiple $10s of millions”, growing 3x a year | Jun 2025 |
Revenue goal | $100 million ARR by the end of 2026, still a target | Oct 2026 |
Users | 500,000+ teams signed up; over 90% use it free | Aug 2026 |
Team | About 200 people, all remote; 246 on its public team page | Nov 2026 |
CEO | Co-CEOs James Hawkins and Tim Glaser, its co-founders | Nov 2026 |
Founded | January 2020, in Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 batch | 2020 |
Headquarters | None: fully remote; PostHog Inc. uses a San Francisco mailing address | Nov 2026 |
Email format | {first}@posthog.com (98% of known addresses) | Nov 2026 |
The company is PostHog Inc., formerly Hiberly Inc., with subsidiaries in the UK (Hiberly Ltd) and Germany (PostHog GmbH) (PostHog). Hiberly Ltd, registered in England in July 2019, lists both co-founders as its directors and as people with significant control (Companies House).
Who owns PostHog?
PostHog is private and venture-backed. Its co-founders, James Hawkins and Tim Glaser, split the company 50:50 when they started (PostHog); after six funding rounds, their stakes today aren’t public. Its investors include Stripe, which led the Series D (PostHog), Peak XV Partners, which led the Series E (PostHog), GV and Y Combinator.
Staff own part of it too. Early employees sold shares alongside the Series C, and with the Series D “any employee could sell up to 20% of their vested shares” (PostHog).
What is PostHog’s revenue?
PostHog doesn’t publish its revenue as a number. In June 2025 co-founder James Hawkins said it had “multiple $10s of millions of ARR and 3x year-over-year growth” (Crunchbase News), and its goal is “$100 million in annual revenue by the end of 2026” (PostHog handbook).
In October 2024 its handbook put revenue “in the low $10s of millions of ARR” (PostHog handbook). Revenue grew nearly 6x in 2022 (PostHog) and about 4x in 2023 (PostHog handbook). Stripe, which handles payments for 99% of PostHog’s paying customers, calls it “on pace for $100 million ARR” in a 2026 case study (Stripe). On October 16, 2026, a PostHog post still called $100M ARR, “The Hundy”, a target (PostHog).
PostHog says it runs “default alive” and has “never had layoffs” (PostHog). It ended 2024 cash-flow positive (PostHog handbook), and in June 2025 Crunchbase News reported it was cash-flow positive but not yet profitable (Crunchbase News).
Most users pay nothing: more than 90% of companies use PostHog for free (PostHog). Every product has a monthly free tier, such as 1 million analytics events and 5,000 session recordings, and usage above it is billed per unit, with no seat fees (PostHog).
PostHog ARR (annual recurring revenue)
PostHog has never published an exact ARR. Its own figures are ranges: “low $10s of millions” in October 2024 (PostHog handbook) and “multiple $10s of millions” in June 2025, growing 3x a year (Crunchbase News). Its target is $100 million ARR by the end of 2026 (PostHog handbook). Research firm Sacra estimated $57.5 million in February 2026 (Sacra); that is an outside estimate, not a PostHog figure.
PostHog MRR (monthly recurring revenue)
PostHog doesn’t publish MRR. “Multiple $10s of millions” of ARR means at least about $1.7 million a month, and its $100 million goal would be about $8.3 million a month; both are our calculations, not company figures.
How much has PostHog raised? Funding and valuation
About $194 million in six rounds, by PostHog’s count after the Series E (PostHog handbook); its press kit adds the rounds up to $182 million (PostHog). The latest is a $75 million Series E at a $1.4 billion valuation, led by Peak XV Partners in September 2025, which made it a unicorn (PostHog) (Inc42). It has announced no round since.
Round | Date | Amount | Lead | Valuation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Series E | Sep 29, 2025 | $75M | Peak XV Partners | $1.4B | |
Series D | Jun 9, 2025 | $70M | Stripe; with Y Combinator, GV and Formus Capital | $920M | |
Series C | Early 2025 | About $10M, plus employee share sales | Y Combinator Continuity, GV | Not disclosed | |
Series B | Jun 10, 2021 | $15M | Y Combinator Continuity, with GV | Not disclosed | |
Series A | Dec 17, 2020 | $9M | GV | Not disclosed | |
Seed | Apr 2020 | $3.025M, on SAFEs | Y Combinator Continuity, 1984 Ventures | Not priced; SAFE cap $15M |
The Series D began with a tweet: in November 2023 Stripe’s CEO, Patrick Collison, called PostHog’s website “very well done” (X) (Crunchbase News). PostHog’s own pages date several rounds differently (its press kit puts the Series D in March 2025, for example); the table uses the announcement dates (PostHog).
What does PostHog make? Products
PostHog started in 2020 as open-source product analytics. It now sells about a dozen tools on one platform: product and web analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, surveys, error tracking, logs, a data warehouse, workflows and AI observability, plus PostHog AI, an assistant that answers questions about your data (PostHog). Since July 2026 it has positioned itself as “self-driving” software, used through its web app, Slack, an MCP server, a command-line tool and a desktop app (PostHog).
Its code is public: the main repository is MIT-licensed outside its enterprise folder and has about 40,700 GitHub stars (GitHub). PostHog stopped supporting paid self-hosting in 2023 (PostHog); customers use PostHog Cloud in the US or the EU, hosted in Frankfurt (PostHog).
Date | Launch | Source |
|---|---|---|
Jul 23, 2026 | Repositions as “self-driving”; PostHog Code becomes PostHog Desktop | |
May 5, 2026 | PostHog Code, a desktop app that runs coding agents on your product data | |
Jan 29, 2026 | Logs | |
Dec 30, 2025 | Workflows | |
May 6, 2025 | Takes on the team of Laudspeaker, an open-source messaging tool | |
Apr 8, 2025 | Error tracking | |
Sep 16, 2024 | Web analytics | |
Jul 16, 2024 | Data warehouse | |
Oct 2022 | EU Cloud, hosted in Frankfurt | |
Feb 2020 | Launches open-source product analytics on Hacker News |
PostHog vs Amplitude and Mixpanel
Amplitude, the publicly traded product-analytics company, names “Mixpanel, Posthog, and ContentSquare” as competitors in its 2025 annual report, which shows $343.2 million of revenue and $366 million of ARR (SEC). PostHog competes on price and breadth: one platform, usage-based pricing and a free tier for every product. It publishes its own comparisons with Amplitude, Mixpanel, Heap, LaunchDarkly, Statsig, FullStory.
Who is the CEO of PostHog?
PostHog has two co-CEOs, its co-founders James Hawkins and Tim Glaser. They started as CEO and CTO and switched to shared titles in March 2025 (GitHub). Since May 2026 Hawkins has focused on AI, while Glaser runs hiring, operations, finance, go-to-market and engineering (PostHog). The two met at Arachnys, a London software company, where Hawkins ran sales.
Person | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|
James Hawkins | Co-founder and co-CEO; leads AI research and PostHog’s “Conversations” products | |
Tim Glaser | Co-founder and co-CEO; runs the exec team, support and the data warehouse | |
Charles Cook | People, operations, hiring and marketing; data protection officer | |
Paul D’Ambra | Product analytics, session replay, error tracking and related teams | |
Ben White | Infrastructure, feature flags, security and billing | |
Raquel Smith | Experiments, surveys, growth and the “self-driving” work | |
Ben Bradley | Sales and customer success | |
Matt Ghering | Finance and revenue operations; joined in August 2026 |
Full bios and contact routes: PostHog CEOs James Hawkins and Tim Glaser: email, LinkedIn and bio.
Where is PostHog based?
Nowhere in particular: PostHog’s team is “100% remote, and distributed across more than 20 countries” (PostHog handbook). Its public team page lists 246 people in 33 countries on November 5, 2026 (PostHog), most of them in the US, the UK and Canada (our count). PostHog Inc. gives its address as 2261 Market Street #4008, San Francisco (PostHog). It also runs Hogpatch, an invite-only San Francisco co-working space for founders in Y Combinator’s current batch (PostHog handbook).
What is PostHog’s email format?
PostHog staff use {first}@posthog.com, 98% of known addresses per LeadIQ; people who share a first name with a colleague add a dot and their last initial.
Need | Official address |
|---|---|
Sales | sales@posthog.com |
Support | Inside the app; no support inbox |
Security reports | security-reports@posthog.com |
Privacy | privacy@posthog.com |
Press | press@posthog.com |
All patterns and official inboxes: PostHog email format.
Key events
Date | Event |
|---|---|
Oct 30, 2026 | Says PostHog AI handled 3.67 million messages from 230,000 people in a year (PostHog) |
Oct 16, 2026 | $100M ARR is still a target (PostHog) |
Aug 2026 | 500,000+ teams have signed up (PostHog handbook) |
Jul 23, 2026 | Repositions as “self-driving” (PostHog) |
May 27, 2026 | Starts training AI models on customer data: US Cloud users opted in by default, EU Cloud users opted out (PostHog) |
May 1, 2026 | Hawkins goes “full founder mode” on AI; Glaser runs execution (PostHog) |
Nov 24, 2025 | Malicious versions of its npm packages are published in the Shai-Hulud attack; PostHog deletes them the same morning (PostHog) |
Sep 29, 2025 | Series E: $75M at $1.4B, led by Peak XV (PostHog) |
Jun 9, 2025 | Series D: $70M at $920M, led by Stripe (PostHog) |
Mar 2025 | Hawkins and Glaser become co-CEOs (GitHub) |
Dec 2024 | Ends the year cash-flow positive (PostHog handbook) |
Feb 2020 | Launches on Hacker News (Hacker News) |
Jan 23, 2020 | Founded by Hawkins and Glaser during Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 batch (PostHog handbook) |
More on PostHog and similar companies
PostHog email format: the pattern and official inboxes
PostHog co-CEOs James Hawkins and Tim Glaser: from Arachnys to a $1.4B company
Analytics SaaS companies: PostHog and 900+ other analytics companies
Open-source SaaS companies: 600+ companies built on open source
Product management SaaS companies: the tools product teams buy
Need verified CEO emails for outbound? The LeadWave SaaS companies list has hand-checked CEO contact details for 15,000+ SaaS companies in one CSV.
