About Pulse
Our Story
Pulse was born out of a simple frustration: project management tools were either too bloated for lean teams or too shallow for complex organizations. In 2019, three engineers working at a mid-sized logistics firm in San Francisco spent more time updating status spreadsheets and attending sync calls than actually shipping work. They knew there had to be a better way.
Marcus Adeyemi, former engineering lead at a Series B supply chain startup, teamed up with Priya Nair, a product designer who had spent six years crafting internal tooling at enterprise software companies, and Chen Weilin, a backend architect with deep experience in real-time data systems. Together, they quit their jobs in January 2020 and spent four months building the first version of Pulse in a converted warehouse space in SoMa, San Francisco.
The founding insight was deceptively simple: most teams don’t fail because they lack a tool. They fail because their tools don’t surface the right information at the right time. Pulse was designed from the ground up to reduce cognitive overhead — to give every team member a single, clear picture of what matters today, what’s blocked, and what’s at risk.
Our Mission
Pulse exists to give every team — regardless of size, geography, or technical sophistication — the clarity they need to do their best work. We believe great project management software should feel like a trusted colleague, not a bureaucratic requirement. It should ask less of you and give more back.
Our Values
Clarity over completeness
We build features that reduce noise, not add to it. Every element in Pulse earns its place by making something clearer or faster for the people using it.
Opinionated defaults, flexible configurations
We make strong choices so you don’t have to start from scratch. But we never lock you in. Pulse adapts to how your team actually works.
Async first, sync when it counts
The best meetings are the ones you didn’t have to have. Pulse is built to help teams communicate effectively without defaulting to yet another calendar invite.
Customer obsession over feature velocity
We’d rather deeply solve three problems than superficially solve thirty. Our roadmap is driven by real feedback from real teams, not by competitive feature checklists.
Investors and Backing
Pulse raised a $4.2M seed round in October 2020, led by Meridian Ventures with participation from Foundry Capital and a group of angel investors including former executives from Asana, Atlassian, and Dropbox. In early 2022, the company closed a $22M Series A led by Northgate Growth Partners, with continued participation from Meridian Ventures.
Our investors share our belief that the project management space remains dramatically underserved for mid-market B2B teams — the segment too large for point solutions but too agile for legacy enterprise software.
Growth and Scale
Since launching publicly in March 2021, Pulse has grown to serve over 4,800 teams across 61 countries. We process more than 14 million task updates per day and have maintained 99.97% uptime across our core platform. Our customer base spans industries including software development, creative agencies, professional services, and manufacturing operations.
Net Revenue Retention sits at 118%, reflecting both the stickiness of the product and the trust teams place in Pulse as a long-term operating layer for their work. We’re proud to have built a business where growth comes primarily from word of mouth — over 60% of new customers arrive through referrals from existing teams.
Headquarters
Pulse is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a growing engineering and customer success presence in London, UK. We operate as a remote-first company, with team members across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.