ClientSuccess
American Fork, US · Founded 2014 · Delaware corporation · 38 employees on LinkedIn · 20 known investors
ClientSuccess offers customer success software that helps teams reduce churn, manage the customer lifecycle, and grow customer revenue. The platform provides customer health scoring, retention and renewal analytics, onboarding portals, and AI-driven automation, with integrations to CRM, support, and communication tools.
Also known as ClientSuccess, Inc.
Founders & leadership
ClientSuccess was founded in 2014 by Dave Blake.
Board
Investors · 20
Also in the syndicate · 12
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$4.2M disclosed across 2 of 4 rounds · 2014–2021
▶$2.5MraisedJul 2018 · 2 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- David BlakeExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- Neeraj GuptaDirector
- Sid KrommenhoekDirector
- Offering amount
- $2.5M
- Amount sold
- $2.5M
- First sale
- Jul 2018
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2014
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$1.7MraisedSep 2015 · 10 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- David BlakeExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- Sid KrommenhoekDirector
- Offering amount
- $2M
- Amount sold
- $1.7M
- First sale
- Sep 2015
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2014
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026ClientSuccess provides a customer success management (CSM) platform for B2B SaaS companies covering post-sale work: onboarding, adoption, retention, renewal and expansion. Core capabilities include SuccessScore customer health scoring that combines revenue, product usage, support, sentiment and engagement; Pulse weekly and real-time reporting; a Net Promoter Score analyzer; engagement insights; lifecycle playbooks (SuccessCycles) with stage automations; collaborative customer onboarding with branded customer portals, project templates and milestone tracking; renewal management; and meeting intelligence that records, transcribes and summarizes customer calls into action items and CRM updates.
The platform also includes SmartCS, an AI and automation layer that drafts customer communications, summarizes feedback and surfaces next best actions. ClientSuccess positions the product as the structured "context graph" of post-sale customer reality — unified health, usage, renewal and sentiment data — distinct from a CRM, which it frames as pre-sale pipeline software. Alongside the core platform, the company markets two additional products: Product Signals for product feedback and feature-request management, and Baton for onboarding and implementation. The company states SOC 2 Type II compliance and more than 25 integrations, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Zendesk, Jira, Slack, Gmail, Intercom, Office 365, Pendo, Zapier and Microsoft Teams.
Founding story
The company originated with founder Dave Blake, who saw a growing need for companies to better manage, retain and grow their customer bases and believed technology could address it. That effort became ClientSuccess, which was founded in 2014 and launched its product in late 2014.
Business model
ClientSuccess sells software to companies as a subscription platform with plan tiers ("compare plans"), supported by a sales-assisted process built around 1:1 demos and named customer success managers for accounts. Customers are onboarded and implemented quickly — the company markets going live "in weeks, not quarters."
Software subscription for the customer success platform, with additional products (Product Signals, Baton) offered alongside the core platform; pricing is quoted via comparison of plans and demo requests rather than published self-serve checkout.
Traction
By the October 2015 seed announcement, ClientSuccess reported nearly 50 customers following its initial launch in late 2014. The company currently states its platform helps hundreds of companies around the world. Published customer outcomes include Beyond Insurance reducing time to full product adoption from 1.5 years to 6–9 months, and MURAL cutting recurring account work from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
Latest developments
In January 2025 ClientSuccess acquired Product Signals to bring product feedback and feature-request workflows into its platform, promoted prominently across its website. Its current product lineup spans the ClientSuccess customer success platform, Product Signals and Baton, with SmartCS AI features and meeting intelligence. The leadership team is listed as founder/CEO Dave Blake, CCO Kristi Faltorusso, VP of Sales TJ Ruff and Head of Product Evan Leong.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positioned as a customer success management platform for B2B SaaS, serving hundreds of companies worldwide according to the company. Its 2015 funding announcement framed the company as leading a strategic shift from customer acquisition toward retention and expansion; an investor writeup describes it as a retention and expansion platform for B2B SaaS with workflow-embedded software in a large market.
The company emphasizes ease of use and speed of implementation — software that does not require a dedicated administrator and can be live in weeks — while covering the full post-sale lifecycle. It argues that the structured post-sale data foundation (health scoring, unified customer data, lifecycle structure) is the hard part of customer intelligence and that its platform maintains that foundation rather than relying on ad hoc AI queries against a CRM. Acquisitions of Status, Baton and Product Signals extended the platform into onboarding/implementation and product feedback management.
Technology
A cloud platform that ingests customer usage, revenue, support, sentiment and engagement data via integrations with CRM, support, product analytics and communication tools, then computes health scores (SuccessScore), automates lifecycle playbooks and alerts. AI features under the SmartCS brand include generative AI for customer communications, feedback summarization and next-best-action recommendations, plus meeting recording, transcription and summarization. The company reports SOC 2 Type II compliance and 25+ integrations.
Go-to-market
Direct sales through requested 1-on-1 demos with no credit card required, supported by content marketing (blogs, webinars, resources), published case studies and G2 reviews, and industry thought leadership in the customer success field. Integrations with widely used CRM, support and product analytics tools also serve as distribution and adoption channels.
Customer success, account management and post-sale operations teams at B2B SaaS companies. Named or referenced customers include Rankmi, Learn to Win, ShipHero, GamePlan, Beyond Insurance, MURAL, and, at the time of the 2015 seed announcement, Findly, Lattice Engines, Instructure, Balihoo, Degreed, Social Dental, Panorama Education, Sparkcentral and Aria.
Geography
Headquarters in Utah — the 2015 funding release datelines Silicon Slopes, Utah, and an investor page lists Lehi — with customers described as located around the world.
History
ClientSuccess was founded in 2014 and announced $1M in seed funding in February 2014 led by Peak Ventures, with participation from Techstars, Plus550, Bullet Time Ventures and angels including Josh James, Scott Dorsey, Tim Kopp and Robb Kunz. The product launched in late 2014, and in October 2015 the company announced an additional $2M in seed capital co-led by Techstars Ventures and Peak Ventures. In June 2021, Frazier VC invested through Fund III via a combined primary seed and secondary transaction. The company subsequently expanded by acquisition, buying Status, then Baton (onboarding and implementation), and in January 2025 Product Signals (product feedback and feature-request workflows).
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 10
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Companies competing with ClientSuccess for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsClientSuccess acquired Product Signals to expand into product feedback and feature-request workflows alongside customer success.
ClientSuccess announced the acquisition of Baton to add onboarding and implementation capabilities; Baton is listed as one of its products.
ClientSuccess announced the acquisition of Status, described as merging the worlds of customer success and onboarding.
Frazier VC invested in ClientSuccess through Fund III via a combined primary seed investment and secondary share purchases.
ClientSuccess announced $2M in additional seed capital co-led by existing investors Techstars Ventures and Peak Ventures, with follow-on investments from Josh James, Scott Dorsey and others, to fund sales, marketing and product development.
$2M source ↗
ClientSuccess launched its customer success management product in late 2014.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- ClientSuccessclientsuccess.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does ClientSuccess do?
- ClientSuccess is a customer success management platform for B2B SaaS companies to reduce churn, retain and grow customers.
- Who founded ClientSuccess?
- ClientSuccess was founded by Dave Blake in 2014.
- Who are ClientSuccess's investors?
- ClientSuccess's investors include Cervin, LaunchCapital, Service Provider Capital, Album VC, Bullet Time Ventures, Peak Ventures, Signal Peak Ventures, Techstars.
- How much funding has ClientSuccess raised?
- ClientSuccess has disclosed $4.2M raised across 2 of its 4 known rounds.
- Where is ClientSuccess headquartered?
- ClientSuccess is headquartered in American Fork, US.