Why is everyone making OKR software?

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.

Today we're taking a moment to discuss the amount of money going into startups building OKR software. After covering WorkBoard's recent round, I've noticed OKR software and services everywhere, even in Twitter ads that I somehow can't avoid.

But surely there can't be too many startups focused on OKR-related software and services? To answer that, let's take a moment to detail out some of the startups in the space and their venture history. Leaning on my own research and some work by G2, this should be an entertaining way to spend our morning. Doubly so as several startups that we'll discuss below (WorkBoard and Gtmhub, among others) are growing their ARR by several hundred percent each year, at the moment.

We'll start with the world's fastest definition of what OKRs are, and then dive in.