# Arena

> Arena is a San Francisco-based audience engagement platform that turns publishers' and brands' own websites into social-network-like communities. Through live blogs, group chats, comments, AI-powered content feeds and audience analytics, Arena helps over 20,000 organizations - including Fox Sports - keep readers on-site, collect first-party data and monetize attention they used to give away to social platforms.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Paulo Martins (Co-founder & CEO), Rodrigo De Castro Reis (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~120 employees
- **Products:** Live Blog, Group Chat, Comments, Polls / Polls AI, Content Wall
- **Notable:** Closed $13.6M Series A led by CRV in March 2022., Powers fan engagement for Fox Sports Australia across 3M+ monthly page views., Deployed in 20,000+ organizations worldwide via no-code embeds.

## Products & services

- **Live Blog** — Real-time, second-by-second content streams for breaking news, sports and live events embedded into the publisher's own site.
- **Group Chat** — Embeddable AI-moderated chat rooms that turn passive readers into participating community members.
- **Comments** — A modern comments product designed to boost engagement, retention and ad revenue.
- **Polls / Polls AI** — Interactive, AI-assisted polls that surface audience sentiment in real time.
- **Content Wall** — AI-curated social and editorial content feeds for product pages, articles and live events.
- **Audience Analytics** — First-party data dashboards covering retention, engagement, and community growth.

## Achievements

- Closed $13.6M Series A led by CRV in March 2022.
- Powers fan engagement for Fox Sports Australia across 3M+ monthly page views.
- Deployed in 20,000+ organizations worldwide via no-code embeds.
- Selected for Techstars; backed by Redpoint eventures.

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Rolled out updated AI-powered community and Content Wall features highlighted on arena.im.
- **2022-03** — Announced $13.6M Series A led by CRV; Murat Bicer joins board.

## Links

- Website: https://arena.im
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arenaim
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/stationfy
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stationfy

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Last updated: 2026-05-30