SEMrush Holdings, Inc.

Semrush is an online visibility management and content marketing platform. It provides tools for SEO, pay-per-click advertising, content marketing, social media management, and competitive intelligence. Oleg Shchegolev and Dmitry Melnikov founded it in 2008 in Boston. What started as a keyword research tool has grown into a comprehensive digital marketing platform with over 117,000 paying customers.

Core capabilities include domain analytics, keyword research, site audit, position tracking, backlink analysis, and advertising research. These run on one of the largest proprietary databases in the industry. Semrush tracks over 25 billion keywords, 43 trillion backlinks, and traffic data for hundreds of millions of domains. That's a lot of competitive intelligence at a marketer's fingertips.

Beyond SEO, the platform has expanded into ContentShake AI for AI-powered content creation, Social Media Management, Listing Management for local SEO, and the Semrush Marketplace for content services. The App Center brings together both proprietary and third-party tools. Trends provides competitive traffic intelligence, and enterprise-grade solutions serve larger marketing teams and agencies.

Customers range from freelance marketers and small agencies to Fortune 500 marketing teams across every industry. Annual revenue is roughly $370 million. Subscriptions drive over 95% of revenue. Gross margins are about 83%. The company runs a product-led growth model with self-serve conversion and has achieved consistent profitability. About 1,800 employees work across offices in the US, Europe, and Asia.