Buffer
Social media scheduling, publishing, and analytics for creators and SMBs.
Marketing
📍 Fully remote
Founded 2010
Current Valuation
Private
as of 2025-Q3
PRIVATE
Buffer is a profitable, fully remote, bootstrapped social media management platform serving 57K+ paying customers and 232K MAUs. Famously bought out its venture investors in 2018 and has operated as a private, self-funded company since — no current VC valuation. Publishes monthly transparent financials including ~$2.1M MRR / $25.1M ARR.
Company Profile
Est. Revenue
$25M (2025-Q3)
Founders & Key People
Joel GascoigneLeo Widrich
Investors
Bootstrapped — bought out prior VC investors in 2018
Products
- Publish
- Analyze
- Engage
- Start Page
- AI Assistant
Competitors
Hootsuite · Later · Sprout Social · Loomly
social mediasaasmarketingbootstrappedremote
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.