Fountain - 2025 Company Profile, Funding & Competitors

Q: Where is Fountain located?

Fountain is located in San Francisco, United States .

Fountain is an acquired company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2014 by Jeremy Cai, Aaron Patzer, Keith Ryu and . It operates as a Chat-based app for local services. Fountain has raised $185M in funding from investors like , First Round Capital and DCM Ventures. The company has 42 active competitors, including 8 funded and 2 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Workstream, Contra and HourWork.

Company Details

Chat-based app for local services. It is a chat-based app for expert advice. Users can simply send a query and they will get connected to an expert in real-time by using trained natural language processing algorithms and large classifiers that will extract relevant skills from a user query. Users can connect with their experts via video call or text messages and can get their services done.

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Email ID: @fountain.com
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Founded Year

2014

Location

San Francisco, United States

Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

in 5 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Investors

& 22 more

Ranked

1^st among

Similar Companies

Workstream &

Exit Details

Acquired by Porch (Oct 29, 2015)

Legal entities associated with Fountain

Fountain is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of incorporation	Revenue	Net Profit	Employee Count
	Nov 24, 2014	-	850	914

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Fountain got acquired by Porch on Oct 29, 2015.

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Fountain has raised a total funding of $185M over 5 rounds. Its first funding round was on Oct 23, 2014. Its latest funding round was a Series C round on Jun 15, 2022 for $100M. 8 investors participated in its latest round, which includes DCM Ventures, First Round Capital, Crosslink Capital and Uncork Capital.

Fountain has 23 institutional investors including , First Round Capital and DCM Ventures.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Fountain:

Date of funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post money valuation	Revenue multiple	Investors
Jun 15, 2022	$100M	Series C	7156125	7395424	SoftBank Vision Fund, , and
Oct 29, 2019	$23M	Series B	6538211	3624329	Uncork Capital, Origin Ventures, and
Jul 06, 2017	$9.1M	Series A	7837179	7239792	Origin Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and

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The founders of Fountain are Jeremy Cai, Aaron Patzer, Keith Ryu and . Keith Ryu and are the CEO of Fountain. Jeremy Cai has founded 2 more companies - and Italic. Keith Ryu has founded 2 more companies - and .

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Top competitors of Fountain include Workstream, Contra and HourWork. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Fountain, ranked by 秘密研究所 score :

Overall Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	秘密研究所 Score
1st	2014, San Francisco (United States), Acquired	Chat-based app for local services	$185M	DCM Ventures, First Round Capital听&补尘辫;听	73/100
2nd	Workstream 2017, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Cloud-based applicant tracking software solutions provider	$120M	GGV Capital, Founders Fund听&补尘辫;听	68/100
3rd	Contra 2019, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Online freelance professionals networking platform	$45M	United States Department of Agriculture, Unusual Ventures听&补尘辫;听	60/100
4th	HourWork 2017, Boston (United States), Acquired	Cloud-based platform for contract workforce recruitment	$14.4M	Morgan Stanley, MassMutual听&补尘辫;听	60/100
5th	HireArt 2012, New York City (United States), Series B	Job applicant pre screening solution through online interviews	$35.2M	InterWest Partners, Felicis Ventures听&补尘辫;听	58/100
6th	Jeevitam 2015, Chennai (India), Seed	Blue collar workforce hiring platform	$1.28M	-	50/100
7th	Sprockets 2020, Charleston (United States), Series A	Cloud-based applicant tracking system for enterprises	$13.4M	Forte Ventures, Thayer Ventures听&补尘辫;听	48/100
8th	gigaroo 2022, Austin (United States), Seed	Cloud-based applicant tracking platform for gig workers	$2.5M	ATX Venture Partners	41/100
9th	Workzilla 2009, Tallinn (Estonia), Unfunded	Online job board platform for multi-industry	-	-	43/100
10th	Chattr 2019, Tampa (United States), Seed	Cloud-based platform for applicant tracking	$3.7M	Florida Funders, Beresford Ventures听&补尘辫;听	33/100