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Mangomint

How Mangomint bought its niche's media instead of buying ads.
👤 Daniel Lang (Career product exec (ex-CPO Talenthouse). Obsessed over making software invisible so non-technical owners adopt it fast.)🌐 siteLinkedIn

Instead of buying ads, Mangomint bought the blog salon owners already read, then sold them software.

Will it work? · our read
Distribution wins. A boring-simple product plus owning the niche's media gives cheap distribution and 110% NRR. The ceiling is one vertical, but it is deep and high-margin.
01How the money moves
Salon owner signs up (from $165/mo)
Runs booking, POS, payroll on Mangomint
Pays monthly + payment fees, about $7k/yr
02The numbers
About $25M ARREstimateARR, doubling YoY (2026)
2026-05source: recently passed $25 million ARR
About $25M
ARR (2026)
110%
Net rev. retention
$1B+/yr
Client sales volume
$1B+/yr is what salons sold through Mangomint (GMV), not Mangomint's own revenue. G.Unhinged
About $7,000/yr per salon; 88% logo retention, 110% NRR.
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SourcesSources last checked 9 August 2026
Growth Unhinged — CEO Daniel Lang: about $25M ARR, 110% NRR, 88% logo retention, $2M Salon Business buy (25 May 2026)PRNewswire — $35M Series B; $1B+/yr client sales volume, 10M+ appointments/yr (Sep 2024)TechCrunch — the cold email behind the $35M Series B (Sep 2024)Mangomint — founded 2017; founders Daniel Lang, Dan Poineau, Sandra Huber; 100+ teamSaaStr — Lang on 110% NRR at eight-figure ARR
Revenue is CEO Daniel Lang's disclosure via the Growth Unhinged profile (25 May 2026): 'recently passed $25 million ARR,' doubling YoY. It sits in a third-party newsletter, not a filing or the company's own site, so verified=false — but it is CEO-sourced and corroborated by the company's 'eight-figure ARR' framing at its $35M Series B (Sep 2024, TechCrunch/PRNewswire). The $1B+/yr and 10M+ appointments are client sales volume (GMV) from Mangomint's own press release, NOT company revenue, and are labeled as such. Retention (88% logo, 110% NRR), NPS 72, the $165/mo start, ~$7k/yr per customer and the $2M-of-$6M-cash Salon Business acquisition all come from the Growth Unhinged profile. No audited revenue is public. We never score you.