Braze, Inc.

Braze, Inc.

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Braze is a customer engagement platform that helps brands deliver personalized, real-time messaging across email, push notifications, in-app messaging, SMS, WhatsApp, web messaging, and connected TV.

Key figures

Data as of Jul 2026 · Pills compare vs Apr 2026
ARR Multiple
3.6x
+0.5x
ARR
$909M
+7.7%
YoY Growth
26.2%
-4.0pp
Market Cap
$3.3B
+16.1%
Revenue (Q)
$227M
+7.7%
Gross Margin
66.8%
+1.1pp
Op. Margin
-8.0%
+5.1pp
Rule of 40
18.2
0.0
Magic Number
0.73
+0.44

Revenue, margins & ratios from SEC filings; market cap & ARR multiple from market data. Market cap & ARR multiple use the close of 13 Oct 2026; their pills compare vs the Jul 2026 quarter-end (3.1x).

Valuation by quarter

Current ARR Multiple: 3.1x· Forward at Q3 FY2027 guidance: 3.1x

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Workflow complexity5/5
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Data moat3/5
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Integration depthHigh
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SegmentEnterprise
-8 risk
IndustryMarketing
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Own AI integration3/5
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Company overview

Braze is a customer engagement platform that helps brands deliver personalized, real-time messaging across email, push notifications, in-app messaging, SMS, WhatsApp, web messaging, and connected TV. Bill Magnuson, Jon Hyman, and Mark Ghermezian founded it in 2011 under the name Appboy in New York City. It was built from the ground up as a real-time platform, processing billions of data points and delivering billions of messages.

The real-time data streaming architecture is what makes Braze different. It ingests and acts on customer events as they happen. Purchases, app opens, page views, location changes, custom events. Marketers can trigger contextually relevant messages within seconds. Legacy marketing automation platforms process data in periodic batches. Braze responds instantly. If a customer abandons their cart, the message goes out in moments, not hours.

Product capabilities include multi-channel campaign orchestration with Canvas Flow, behavioral audience segmentation, personalization through Liquid templating and AI, A/B and multivariate testing, journey building with branching logic, intelligent delivery timing, and comprehensive analytics. Content Cards provide persistent, personalized experiences within apps and websites.

BrazeAI features include a Predictive Suite for churn prediction and engagement scoring, content generation for subject lines and copy, send-time optimization, and channel selection optimization. The AI helps identify the right message, channel, and timing for each individual customer.

Braze targets consumer-facing brands. Retail, e-commerce, media, financial services, food and beverage, travel, health and wellness, and on-demand services are the primary verticals. Customers include Burger King, HBO Max, Venmo, and Grubhub among thousands of others.

The go-to-market combines direct enterprise sales with technology partners, agencies, and system integrators. The open architecture integrates with data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery, CDPs like Segment and mParticle, analytics tools, and commerce platforms.

Annual revenue is roughly $830 million with gross margins around 68%. Revenue is subscription-based. Net revenue retention exceeds 109%. Operating margins are approaching breakeven as the company scales.

With about 1,800 employees and a platform processing tens of billions of data points daily, Braze has established itself as the leading modern customer engagement platform. It's displacing legacy marketing clouds from Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe among digital-first brands that need real-time, personalized communication.

Entity information

Industry7372: Services-Prepackaged Software
Fiscal YearJan 31
IncorporatedDelaware
Phone(609) 964-0585
Address63 MADISON BUILDING, 28 E. 28TH ST., FLOOR 12 MAILROOM, NEW YORK, NY, 10016
Mailing address63 MADISON BUILDING, 28 E. 28TH ST., FLOOR 12 MAILROOM, NEW YORK, NY, 10016
EIN45-2505271
Entity typeoperating
SEC industry framework06 Technology
Former namesAppboy, Inc. (to 2017-08-14)

SaaS KPIs

Reported in at least 3 quarters

Monthly Active Users

20 quarters
~9000.00M
Q2 FY2027+5.9%

Total Customers

20 quarters
2,789
Q2 FY2027+2.8%

Current Remaining Performance Obligations

13 quarters
$691.1M
Q2 FY2027+3.1%

Remaining Performance Obligations

13 quarters
$1.09B
Q2 FY2027+1.2%

Free Cash Flow

12 quarters
$26.8M
Q1 FY2027+50.6%

Customers with ARR of $500,000 or more

11 quarters
361
Q2 FY2027+8.4%

Management outlook

Given with Q2 FY2027 results (Jul 2026)
ReportedGuidance

Guided revenue, Q3 FY2027$229.0M – $230.0M
Midpoint$229.5M
Growth vs Q2 FY2027+1.0%
Growth vs Q3 FY2026+20.3%
Q3 FY27
Non-GAAP operating income$16.0 - 17.0
Non-GAAP net income$15.0 - 16.0
Non-GAAP net income per share, diluted$0.13 - 0.14
Weighted average common shares used in computing non-GAAP net income per share, diluted114.5
Full Year FY27
Revenue$910.0 - 913.0
Non-GAAP operating income$75.5 - 76.5
Non-GAAP net income$72.5 - 73.5
Non-GAAP net income per share, diluted$0.64 - 0.65
Weighted average common shares used in computing non-GAAP net income per share, diluted114.0

Quarterly financials

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