Jonathan Cherki was born in 1986 in Marseille and entered ESSEC Business School in 2007. He joined the school's incubator and worked on a way to measure how well banner ads performed. That project grew into a platform that shows how visitors use a website.
Contentsquare was founded in 2012 with a €400,000 seed from Seed4Soft, a club of software executives. The next large round came only in June 2017, a $20 million Series A led by Highland Capital Europe.
Money then arrived quickly: $42 million in January 2018, $60 million in January 2019, $190 million in May 2020 and $500 million in May 2021 from SoftBank Vision Fund 2. In July 2022 a $600 million Series F from Sixth Street valued the company at $5.6 billion.
The company grew by acquisition. It bought Clicktale and Pricing Assistant in 2019, Hotjar in 2021 and Heap in 2023. In 2025 it bought Loris AI and joined the French Next40 index.