What is Sprout Social? Sprout Social Review

Key Features

1. Search: Search for discussions related to your company’s services in social media to find potential users and nearby consumers.

2. Reporting and analysis: With the Sprout Social tool, you can generate customized brand social reports with simple operations, and query the number of comments, @ messages, replies, and other operations by time period.

3. Schedule: Help users send notification reminders at regular intervals.

4. Invisible following: Even if you don’t follow someone on a public account, you can still track and mark them invisibly, thus enabling management of all public accounts.

price

Deluxe, $99/month—manage up to 10 social media accounts, real-time brand monitoring, comprehensive reporting tools, and more

Teams, $149/month – Manage up to 15 social media accounts, integrate with Helpdesk and Google Analytics, advanced analytics reporting, and more.

Enterprise, $249/mo – Manage up to 20 social media accounts, advanced keyword reporting, a personalized interface, and more.

Financing

In November 2010, Lightbank, a venture capital firm led by Groupon co-founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, invested $1 million in Sprout Social.

In March 2011, Sprout Social received $10 million in funding in a round led by New Enterprise Associates.

In June 2014, Sprout Social Inc. raised $8 million from venture capital funds Lightbank and NEA.

In February 2016, Sprout Social announced that it had received US$42 million in Series C funding led by the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs.

FAQ

1. What integrations does Sprout Social have?

Integrations are available for Helpdesk, HubSpot, UserVoice, Zendesk, Gravatar, and more.

2. Some of their customers

Clients include ticketmaster, LOEWS HOTELS, Edelman and SUBARU.

3. Sprout Social Alternatives

TweetDeck, Hootsuite, Zoho Social, monday.com, etc.

References

• 1. Social media management tool company Sprout Social received $42 million in Series C funding: E-commerce Research Center [cited date 2016-02-18T16:00:00.000Z]
• 2. Social media Sprout Social received $42 million in Series C funding: ebrun [cited on 2016-02-17T16:00:00.000Z]
• 3. Sprout Social helps small businesses manage customer relationships: Transcend [cited on 2011-02-28T16:00:00.000Z]