# Thismoment

> Thismoment was a San Francisco marketing-technology company that built the Thismoment Content Cloud, a digital storytelling platform that helped the world's biggest brands monitor, moderate, secure rights to, and publish user-generated content alongside professionally produced media across social, web, and mobile touchpoints. Founded in 2007-2008 by gaming and tech veterans Vince Broady, Ankarino Lara, and Scott Bedard, it served more than 150 brands and agencies including Coca-Cola, Salesforce, Sephora, Levi's, Microsoft, Mazda, and AB InBev, and raised more than $50 million across four institutional rounds.

- **Founded:** 2007
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Vince Broady (Co-Founder & CEO), Ankarino Lara (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer (later CEO)), Scott Bedard (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** Roughly 21 employees (later-stage estimate)
- **Products:** Thismoment Content Cloud, Distributed Engagement Channel (DEC), Thismoment Brand Monitor, Rights & Consent Management
- **Notable:** Raised more than $50 million across four institutional rounds (Series A through D)., Grew to serve 150+ enterprise brands and agencies including Coca-Cola, Salesforce, and Sephora., Acquired Position2's Brand Monitor in 2012 to expand into social listening.

## Products & services

- **Thismoment Content Cloud** — A digital storytelling platform that automates monitoring, moderating, and clearing rights to user-generated content across platforms and media types, and mixes it with professional content for marketing, sales enablement, customer support, and HR/recruiting.
- **Distributed Engagement Channel (DEC)** — Software for unifying, managing, and analyzing a brand's social channels, rich media assets, and UGC to drive engagement and conversation across social, digital, and mobile touchpoints.
- **Thismoment Brand Monitor** — Social media monitoring and engagement product, originally Position2 Brand Monitor, acquired in 2012 and rebranded.
- **Rights & Consent Management** — Closed-loop consent and rights-clearance tooling that let enterprise legal and marketing teams reuse customer content without legal exposure.

## Achievements

- Raised more than $50 million across four institutional rounds (Series A through D).
- Grew to serve 150+ enterprise brands and agencies including Coca-Cola, Salesforce, and Sephora.
- Acquired Position2's Brand Monitor in 2012 to expand into social listening.
- Featured in Fast Company, Wired, TechCrunch, Recode, and the Content Marketing Institute.
- Pioneered closed-loop consent and at-scale rights clearance for user-generated content marketing.

## Latest updates

- **2012-02** — Acquired Position2 Brand Monitor, adding social monitoring and rebranding it Thismoment Brand Monitor.
- **2014-10** — Closed a $17.6M Series D led by Sierra Ventures, Trident Capital, and UMC Capital to push UGC marketing product development.

## Links

- Website: https://thismoment.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/thismoment
- Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/thismoment
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Thismoment

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