We’ve spent the past 18 months creating software and resources to help companies become proactive and strategic in building high-gravity communities

Orbit has raised $15M Series A to enable proactive community teams everywhere

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2021-05-27 17:30:04

We’ve spent the past 18 months creating software and resources to help companies become proactive and strategic in building high-gravity communities, building the future of community-driven companies alongside you, our own community.

Over the past year, Orbit has become community mission control for more than 2,900 users from the more than 1,500 organizations who have onboarded to Orbit. Collectively our users are managing more than 4 million members across their respective communities.

Needless to say, we’ve learned a lot about the state of community building today, including the daily challenges of thousands of community builders, as well as the strategic role communities can play in businesses.

Along with our customers and community, we’ve been busy since our seed round last year. We’ve shipped first-party integrations with Discord, Slack, Discourse, Twitter, and GitHub, along with an API and developer platform, allowing anyone to connect Orbit to any of their tools, in addition to 20+ Zapier integrations. We launched Community Built and a community-centric newsletter called The Observatory, and migrated our community from Slack to Discord. We even had a community member translate the Orbit Model into Chinese!

Today, in addition to this momentum, we’d like to share some additional news about Orbit and how we’re continuing to build the future of community-driven companies.