Podium

Podium is a software company founded in 2014 that provides local businesses with a multi-product messaging platform. Its tools are designed to help businesses get more customer reviews, collect payments, send text marketing campaigns and centralise customer communications in one place. The target market is local businesses of all kinds; the company's founding inspiration came from a family member's tire shop, and the automotive and tire retail sector remains among its verticals.

The company's technical work spans several domains: messaging and communications technology, SMS and text messaging, customer review management, payments technology and marketing automation. The Podium multi-product platform combines these capabilities. Its Reviews product makes collecting customer reviews as simple as sending a text, while Payments handles payment collection within the platform. Text marketing campaigns allow businesses to reach customers by message, and unified communications brings customer conversations into a single interface.

Podium's stated focus is on making its tools easy to use. The company's origin story is rooted in helping a small business, and it describes its mission as helping local businesses win. Further details on funding, headcount and geographic presence are not published.