Sam Pillar and Forrest Zeisler were freelance programmers in Edmonton working on separate projects. They met because they kept seeing each other in the same coffee shops.
In 2011 they founded Jobber. The first customer was a painting company that needed software to track clients, quotes and invoices. They saw that other small trades businesses had the same problem and built Jobber for all of them.
Jobber raised an $8 million Series A in 2015 from OMERS Ventures. Recurring revenue grew 90% in 2020, and in January 2021 the company closed a $60 million Series C led by Summit Partners. It then had over 100,000 service pros in 47 countries and more than 250 employees.
In February 2023 Jobber raised a $100 million Series D led by General Atlantic, the largest venture round in Edmonton history. Total funding reached about $176 million.