Beehiiv

Beehiiv is the best platform for creators to build, grow, and monetize their audience via email newsletters.

The creator economy is booming, with email newsletters seeing significant growth, but existing platforms lack customization and penalize creators at scale. Beehiiv, built by the team behind Morning Brew, aims to democratize these tools for all creators.

The creator economy, with a $7B market in 2017 and estimated 10-15% YoY growth, provides significant opportunities for ad-supported and subscription-based platforms.

The newsletter space has seen high-profile acquisitions and significant investments, with entities like Substack gaining substantial traction.

Beehiiv outperforms competitors in key features such as customization and fee structures, addressing significant pain points of existing platforms like Substack through testimonials and analysis.

Advertising in newsletters is time-intensive for both creators and marketers, driving the need for scalable, effective native ad solutions.

Beehiiv democratizes resources of scaled publications, offering creation, monetization, analytics, and growth tools specifically designed for creators. Combining the strengths of successful platforms like webflow, Medium, Substack, LiveIntent, and Morning Brew, Beehiiv provides an integrated solution for creators.

Beehiiv uses a SaaS + Ad Network model, with tiered pricing for subscriber accounts and a 20% share of ad revenue, offering significant value to creators and advertisers.

Beehiiv projects profitability within 12 months, aiming for $7.35M ARR and $250K+ in monthly profit by month 18.

The demo showcases Beehiiv’s capabilities in subscriber management, engagement analytics, and content creation.

Beehiiv has a clear development timeline from beta to launch, with plans to ensure seamless migration from competing platforms.

Led by technical co-founders Tyler Denk and Benjamin Hargett, Beehiiv’s team brings together expertise from Morning Brew and other notable publications.

Beehiiv is raising $1.3M in pre-seed funding to support 18 months of runway, primarily for scaling and engineering hires, aiming to capture significant market share.