PostHog

posthog.com ↗added 2026-09-02

★ Fast funding cadence: two rounds in three months, valuation from $920M to $1.4B, with Stripe and Peak XV both betting in — growth looks real but is testing how fast capital can be absorbed● Hiring↗ Employee liquidity on record

Worth-Joining Index · Scorecard

v2.1 ALPHA · 2026-08

Career Score

—/100

Coverage

52%

Verified

17%

Stage cohort

Early

Vibe Check

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Momentum

4/4

Efficiency

unknown

Backing

2/5

Market

7.7/11

Product

8.8/11

Upside

10/12

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Latest valuation

$920M (Series D, 2025-06)

Series E · 2025-09

ARR

~$57.5M

~ 3rd-party estimate ↗as of 2026-02

产品分析开发者工具开源Founded · 2020Stage · Growth (Series E)HQ · San Francisco

Traction · Key numbers

ARR~$28.9M (Feb 2025) → ~$53.1M (end of 2025), roughly 99% YoY~ 3rd-party estimate ↗as of 2025-12

ARR~$57.5M (Feb 2026)~ 3rd-party estimate ↗as of 2026-02

Usage scale500,000+ teams using PostHog's products◆ Company-claimedas of 2025-09

Valuation paceValuation from $920M (Series D) to $1.4B (Series E) in three months✓ Publicly verifiable ↗as of 2025-09

Funding

Rounds

Valuation pace

Valuation from $920M

$75M

Series E · 2025-09 · valuation $920M post (Series D, 2025-06) · led by Stripe

Officially became a unicorn; total raised to date ~$194M

$70M

Series D · 2025-06 · valuation $920M post · led by Stripe

Included alongside a small Series C top-up

▸Fast funding cadence: two rounds in three months, valuation from $920M to $1.4B, with Stripe and Peak XV both betting in — growth looks real but is testing how fast capital can be absorbed

▸Mid-term target is $100M ARR by 2026; from current $50M+ ARR that requires sustaining near-doubling growth to deliver

▸Open-source/self-hosted model drives a distinctive engineer-led adoption curve, but also means some usage doesn't convert directly to revenue — worth scrutinizing ARR quality

Founders

James Hawkins Co-CEO

Co-founder and Co-CEO of PostHog, part of YC's W20 batch

Tim Glaser Co-CEO

Co-founder and Co-CEO of PostHog, part of YC's W20 batch

Reality · Working here

H1B / PERMUnknown

Remote policyUnknown

Comp modelUnknown

GlassdoorUnknown — work here? Help us fill this in →

Equity liquiditySeries D (June 2025) expanded liquidity program allowing any employee to sell up to 20% of vested sharescompany's own blog post✓ Publicly verifiable ↗as of 2025-06

Hiring statusCareers page states plans to add about 10 team members across engineering, sales, and customer success; current team is 230+ people◆ Company-claimed ↗as of 2026-09

Signals & Risks

ValuationValuation jumped from $920M to $1.4B in three months — a fast pace that raises questions about whether revenue growth is keeping up

CompetitionThe product analytics and dev-tools space is crowded, with Amplitude, Mixpanel, and Segment as direct competitors

Scope creepExpanding from analytics into AI-driven dev tooling (e.g. automated PR generation) — execution risk and focus are worth watching

Editorial ✎

Good fit for

· PMs and engineers who like open source and are willing to expose their product to a demanding developer community for feedback

· Those excited about an all-in-one dev-tools suite (analytics + session replay + feature flags + A/B testing) and end-to-end ownership

· Growth/marketing talent who believe in engineer-led growth (blog content, transparent pricing, open-source repo as acquisition channel)

Not for

· Those who want a single, tightly-focused product bet — PostHog is expanding across multiple product lines simultaneously, and focus is a risk outsiders keep flagging

· Those uncomfortable with the open, sometimes blunt public scrutiny of an open-source community's issues and discussions

Ask in the interview

1. Against the $100M ARR target for 2026, how much is coming from net revenue retention versus new customer acquisition?

2. With analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, and now AI-driven dev tools all in flight, how does the team prioritize resources?

3. What's the conversion rate from open-source self-hosted users to paying cloud customers, and is it improving or declining?

Data changelog

Community corrections → editorial review → applied, fully on the record

2026-09-02

股权流动性 / tender 记录 filled in as Series D (June 2025) expanded liquidity program allowing any employee to sell up to 20% of vested shares

data as of 2025-06 · Source: PostHog company blog ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

2026-09-02

最近一轮领投机构 filled in as Stripe

data as of 2025-06 · Source: PostHog company blog ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

2026-09-02

最近一轮估值 filled in as $920M post (Series D, 2025-06)

data as of 2025-06 · Source: PostHog company blog ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

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