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CloudSpot

Client galleries, print store and CRM for photographers - Argyle, TX - founder-led, 2014
👤 Gavin Wade (Shot weddings full-time for 10+ years, then built CloudSpot for his own delivery pain - a photographer selling to photographers.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn

CloudSpot gives photographers branded galleries to deliver, sell prints, and manage clients - one founder-led tool.

Will it work? · our read
Loved, not moated. A decade of photographer trust and a slick all-in-one product carry CloudSpot in a crowded space - but galleries are commoditized, and free rivals like Pixieset hold prices down.
01How the money moves
Photographer subscribes for galleries, store and CRM
Delivers client shoots via branded galleries
CloudSpot earns monthly subs; the 15% print-sale commission applies only to the Free and Entry plans (Lite, Pro and Unlimited are commission-free)
02The numbers
about $1.2M/yrEstimate2024 revenue, est.
2024
the sentence on the pageCloud Spot Argyle , Texas , United States cloudspot.io Creative Portfolio Management Software 2024 Revenue $1.2M (Est.) Funding $0 Team 11 Founded 2014 Company Revenue Founder and CEO Employees and…
$1.2M
2024 revenue (est.)
$0
outside funding raised
11
person team
Revenue is Latka-reported and directional, not a first-party filing. Latka
about $1.2M/yr in 2024, up about 75% from $687.6K in 2023 (Latka; 2024 figure Latka-estimated).
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SourcesSources last checked 25 August 2026
Revenue figures ($1.2M in 2024, $687.6K in 2023, $573K in 2021) come from Latka, which attributes them to founder interviews and explicitly flags the 2024 number as 'estimated.' I could not confirm a first-party disclosure, so revenue is marked EST / not independently confirmed and should be treated as directional - Latka has a documented history of accuracy issues. Funding is contested: Latka reports $0 raised, and the founder did pass through the EvoNexus incubator, but Crunchbase, Tracxn, PitchBook and CB Insights all show CloudSpot raised about $400K across 2 rounds from EvoNexus, Cove Fund and Fairmont Capital - so the 'bootstrapped' claim is not supported and has been removed from tags and moat. No drama was fabricated: CloudSpot's story is patient founder-market-fit against better-funded rivals, not a single dramatic move. Rival bar weights and prices are our rough read, not audited market share. We never score you.