Fathom Analytics
👤 Jack Ellis & Paul Jarvis (Paul Jarvis's 'Company of One' fanbase gave day-one reach; Jack Ellis built the tech. Audience first, zero VC.)🌐 sitepjrvs.comLinkedIn
EU rulings made GA a legal risk. Fathom keeps EU data in the EU, no cookie banner — the regulation is its sales team.
Will it work? · our read
Law sells it. The tailwind is borrowed — enforcement is patchy, GA added an EU mode, and every rival cites the same ruling. Fathom wins on craft, EU isolation, and trust, not a lock on 'legal'.
01How the money moves
EU regulator rules Google Analytics illegal under GDPR
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Sites switch to Fathom: EU-hosted, no cookie banner
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Flat $15-470/mo subscription, billed by pageviews
02The numbers
70%
growth, last yr
Starter St.
15.5K
companies use it
Enlyft
$0
VC raised
founders
No official ARR; figures are third-party or estimated. Starter Story
est · Starter Story · $15-470/mo · bootstrapped, $0 VC
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usefathom.com/about — bootstrapped, founders, scale (millions of sites, thousands paying)Your website analytics are breaking the law — Fathom's regulation-as-marketing postCNIL finds Google Analytics in breach of GDPR — the ruling behind the demandFathom Analytics has been acquired — Jack Ellis buys out Paul Jarvis, Dec 2024Starter Story: Fathom — 70% YoY growth, $1M/mo (unofficial)
Revenue is EST, not first-party: Fathom is bootstrapped and does not publish ARR. The $12M/yr figure annualizes Starter Story's unofficial '$1M/mo' plus its '70% YoY' claim — treat as ballpark, not confirmed (not independently confirmed). Documented facts: founded 2018 (about page), EU DPA rulings against GA in 2022 (Austria, France/CNIL, Italy), Jack Ellis's Dec-2024 buyout of Paul Jarvis. The 'GA is illegal' thesis is real but weakening — the 2023 EU-US Data Privacy Framework restored a legal transfer path, so the tailwind is contested. 'Let the law sell' and the moat framing are [our read], not founder quotes. We never score you.