Giles Palmer
Founder & CEO @ Brandwatch
Brighton, United Kingdom
Giles Palmer is a angel investor at Brandwatch in Brighton focused on SaaS and Retail. Giles Palmer is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch, a leading social intelligence company.Formerly of BSkyB, Giles started Brandwatch and since its launch in August 2007, it has grown to become one of the world’s leading social media analytics and listening companies.Giles’ goal for Brandwatch is to help organisations find and engage withonline conversations that matter. This motivation has turned Brandwatch into a platform that gathers millions of online conversations every day and provides users with the tools to analyze them. This empowers brands and agencies to make smarter, data-driven business decisions. Brandwatch has developed a social listening and analytics offering, Brandwatch Analytics, and a social command center platform Brandwatch Vizia, which showcases real-time visualizations across enterprises. Currently, Brandwatch has over 1,000 customers including 30 of the Fortune 100 companies, and serves businesses across the globe, from FTSE100 companies to SMEs.Giles regularly speaks at social media conferences and serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Sussex University as well as the Social Media Committee for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Giles Palmer invests in
Stages Giles Palmer invests in
Countries Giles Palmer invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 1 (50%)
- Retail 1 (50%)
- Software 1 (50%)
- Analytics 1 (50%)
- E-Commerce 1 (50%)
Stage
- Angel 1 (50%)
- Series A 1 (50%)
Country
- United Kingdom 1 (50%)
- The Netherlands 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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The Mothership
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The Mothership brings the power of multichannel marketing and digital-first branding to the best consumer products. | $22M / Angel / Mar 24, 2022 | |
Whatagraph
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Whatagraph is a powerful marketing analytics visualisation and automation platform that enables effortless marketing data collection, visualisation and delivery for marketing agencies and teams.Here are some of the main features :* Blend data from multiple channels, accounts, or campaigns and present a clear performance overview to your client.* Automated report delivery * Complete your report by connecting custom data to it: with Google Sheets and Public API integrations, you'll be able to import data from any source at all. * Show your client you put extra effort into building their report. With our White-label feature, you can build tailored reports: change colors, add logos, and use custom domains. * Create a marketing performance report in minutes: use our ready-to-go templates, and you won't have to do any work from scratch. * Real-time team collaboration | $7.2M / Series A / Sep 29, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Brandwatch
Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform. Brandwatch is an enterprise social intelligence leader, empowering over 2,000 of the planet’s most admired brands and agencies including Unilever, Walmart, and Dell to make insightful, data-driven business decisions.The company has made two acquisitions to date: PeerIndex(2013) and BuzzSumo (2017) as a standalone content marketing platform and was bolstered by its merger (2018) with Crimson Hexagon.Brandwatch has offices around the globe including Brighton, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Stuttgart, Paris and Singapore.
Brandwatch Contacts
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Giles Palmer
Founder & CEO
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Chris Bingham
CTO
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Dan Freund
Chief Revenue Officer
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Daniel Campbell
Interim Chief Sales Officer @ Brandwatch
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Dominique Roch
Research Manager (Strategy & Insights)
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What does Giles Palmer invest in?
Giles Palmer invests primarily in SaaS, Retail and Software startups, most often at Angel and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Giles Palmer closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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