HubSpot announced today that Facebook has recognized the company for its rich capabilities, deep expertise, and long track record of success in advertising technology, naming HubSpot an official badged marketing partner. The new partnership builds upon existing collaboration between the two companies, which includes several different integrations, such as the ability to schedule and directly publish content from HubSpot to Instagram.

HubSpot is excited to announce the launch of a redesigned agency directory. The directory is home to over 700 marketing agencies that provide a full suite of digital services to help their clients grow. Visits to the directory grew 70% in 2017 as the result of a concentrated effort on our part to improve how businesses search for and connect with marketing agencies.

HubSpot is excited to announce today that its EMEA Headquarters in Dublin has been recognised as a Best Workplace by Great Place To Work Ireland. Great Place to Work is a global institute which identifies leading organisations in more than 45 countries worldwide. The company assesses and awards organisations around the world for having remarkable culture and management practices based on employee surveys and a yearly culture audit. During the assessment, HubSpot earned high marks from employees for its culture of autonomy and transparency.

HubSpot announced today that it has expanded its long-standing partnership with Google by adopting Google Cloud to expand its international cloud infrastructure. In addition to providing increased data security for HubSpot customers, the new partnership will also allow the company to invest more in its current Google Cloud product integrations and accelerate the growth of HubSpot’s Free CRM.

HubSpot announced today that it was named to the Constellation ShortList™ for B2B Marketing Automation in Q1 2018. The technology vendors included in the Constellation ShortList offer the key requirements for early adopters pursuing digital transformation initiatives.

We’re excited to announce today that HubSpot has appointed Jonathan Williams as the Head of Marketing for Australia and New Zealand. In his new role, Jonathan will be responsible for all HubSpot’s marketing activity in the region and will be based in HubSpot’s Sydney office.

Over the past five years, there has been a nearly 1,500% increase in the number of marketing and sales technology solutions on the market. For small businesses in particular, it can be nearly impossible to navigate that landscape to find the right tools for growth. How do they know the company they’re signing with is trustworthy? Are those precious marketing dollars going to go to waste?

HubSpot is excited to announce today the continued growth of its app ecosystem and an ongoing investment in its platform with the launch of a redesigned integrations directory. The company doubled the number of certified apps available through the Connect Partner program in 2017 and as a result, saw total integration installs grow by 142%.

At HubSpot, we always strive to listen to and act quickly on feedback from our customers. One of the most common pieces of feedback we heard from the startup community last year was that the eligibility criteria to qualify for HubSpot for Startups’ Seed program were too restrictive, with a ceiling of $1 million in total funding and $1 million in total revenue. And research from the PWC/CB Insights MoneyTree Q3 2017 report backs this -- the average seed round increased from $1 million in Q1 2016 to $1.6 - $2 million in 2017, as VC firms moved towards making fewer, larger investments.

If you started this new year with resolutions, you’re not alone. We entered 2018 at HubSpot with big aspirations and goals focused on one core value of ours: growth. The inbound movement isn’t slowing down and we’re on a mission to help customers, partners, employees and businesses globally grow...better.