Community Hub

What Community Hub does

Community Hub is a privately-held Ohio-based software company that develops and licenses a suite of community engagement and environmental data visualization applications. The platform, originally developed as the Environmental Dashboard by Oberlin College faculty and students, combines real-time data acquisition and visualization (covering electricity, water, and environmental conditions) with crowd-sourced community content tools, and comprises seven core products: Data Hub, Citywide Dashboard, Building Dashboard, Community Calendar, Community Voices, Digital Signage Software, and Phone App, supplemented by Web Embeddables that allow partner organizations to embed platform content into their own websites.

The company sells primarily to municipal governments, educational institutions (K-12 and higher education), and non-profit organizations, with named deployments including the City of Oberlin, Oberlin Public Schools, Toledo Public Schools, the Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland Metroparks, the Oberlin Business Partnership, Palmer Conservation Consulting, and Oberlin College. Pricing is quote-based and subscription-based on an annual cadence, with no publicly disclosed rates. Geographic reach is currently regional, concentrated in Northeast Ohio. Distribution is handled through direct enterprise sales with custom implementations per community, supplemented by embedded widgets distributed through partner websites.

The business is operated by a six-person team led by Director John Petersen, alongside a project manager, a design/media lead, and three software engineers. The company was established in 2021 as a commercial spinout of the academic Environmental Dashboard project, and no venture capital, private equity, or institutional funding rounds are disclosed in the available data. The platform is featured in the award-winning documentary "2040" directed by Damon Gameau, which provides third-party brand credibility. The company has no disclosed AI/ML capabilities, with its core technology grounded in real-time data acquisition, processing, and visualization rather than machine learning.

Name

Community Hub

Legal name

Community Hub

Website

https://communityhub.cloud

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Community Hub is an Ohio-based software company developing data visualization, digital signage, and community engagement applications. Derived from Oberlin College's Environmental Dashboard, the company sells subscription software to municipal governments, schools, and non-profits primarily in Northeast Ohio.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Engagement Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210), Indoor and Outdoor Display Advertising (541850)

akta.pro primary industry

Local & Neighborhood Communities (BPAMABAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Local & Neighborhood Community Platforms (MPACAJAI), Social Media Management, Scheduling & Community Tools (BPAMALAJ), Community Hosting & Membership Platforms (MPACAJAF)

Keywords

• Community engagement software
• Environmental data visualization
• Digital signage platform
• Real-time resource monitoring
• Smart city dashboards

Headquarters

HQ city

Oberlin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Software Platform Licensing: Community Hub offers software applications and pricing options for organizations and whole communities. The platform includes multiple modules (Data Hub, Citywide Dashboard, Building Dashboard, Community Calendar, Community Voices, Digital Signage, Phone App) that can be licensed to municipal governments, schools, and organizations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Community Hub develops and licenses an integrated communication platform (built on the Environmental Dashboard technology) that combines real-time data visualization (electricity, water, environmental conditions) with crowd-sourced community content. Its products — Data Hub, Citywide Dashboard, Building Dashboard, Community Calendar, Community Voices, Digital Signage Software, and Phone App — are sold primarily to municipal governments, schools, and non-profit organizations to drive community engagement and sustainability.

Product overview

Community Hub is an award-winning communication platform comprising seven integrated software products. The platform uses sophisticated data acquisition and visualization applications to foster stronger, more sustainable, and more resilient connections among people and natural systems. The product suite includes: Data Hub (data visualization tools), Citywide Dashboard (whole-community resource flow visualization), Building Dashboard (real-time building resource tracking), Community Calendar (crowd-sourced event sharing), Community Voices (community content curation), Digital Signage Software (interactive digital display management), and Phone App (mobile content access and digital sign control). Web Embeddables allow partner organizations to embed CH content into their own websites. These products work together to enable organizations, neighborhoods, and cities to motivate and empower community engagement, connection, and resilience.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Data Hub: Online data visualization tools package that translates real-time data into compelling visualizations for websites and digital signage.
• Citywide Dashboard
• Building Dashboard
• Community Calendar
• Community Voices
• Digital Signage Software
• Phone App

Products and services

• Data Hub Online data visualization tools package that translates real-time data acquired from a variety of sources into compelling visualizations for websites and digital signage, for managers, educators, students, and communicators.
• Citywide Dashboard Animated visualization of whole-community flows of electricity, drinking water, and current environmental conditions designed to enhance residents' understanding of how they are connected to a larger whole.
• Building Dashboard Tracks and communicates patterns of real-time resource use in buildings in ways that engage occupants, make connections between resource conservation and environmental/community benefits, and support classroom education.
• Community Calendar Crowd-sourced venue that makes it easy for organizations and community members to share and promote events and announcements within organizations, neighborhoods, and whole cities.
• Community Voices Software that combines images and words drawn from the full diversity of a community to celebrate and cultivate thought and actions that advance ecological, economic, and social resilience.
• Digital Signage Software Easy-to-use interactive digital signage software that makes it simple for multiple stakeholders to post and update content connecting community members with organization, location-specific, and community-wide information and events.
• Phone App Customized phone application that allows viewers to access community content on their phone and control current content displayed on the digital sign nearest to them.
• Web Embeddables Customizable embeddable CH content — community calendars, real-time data visualizations, and navigable dashboards — that can be embedded into the websites of any partner organization.

Quantifiable outcome

• Translated water and energy use data in 44 school buildings into teaching and learning in the classroom
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Oberlin CollegecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOberlin College faculty and students originally developed the Environmental Dashboard technology. Community Hub builds on this academic foundation to implement Environmental Dashboards in communities and organizations. The partnership represents the origin of the core technology platform.
• 2040 DocumentarycoreGTM or Marketing PartnerThe Environmental Dashboard technology developed by Community Hub is featured in the award-winning documentary 2040, providing significant visibility and third-party credibility for the platform.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Ushahidi: Ushahidi is a nonprofit civic tech platform that builds tools for community-based data collection, mapping, and storytelling. It overlaps with Community Hub's community crowdsourcing and sustainability-mission focus, though it operates as open-source rather than commercial SaaS.
• Zencity: Zencity provides a data-driven community feedback and engagement platform for cities, using resident input analytics to inform local government decisions. It competes for the same municipal sustainability/resilience buyer as Community Hub, with an emerging, more analytics-focused take.

Broad incumbents

• Broadsign: Broadsign operates a digital signage network management platform used for out-of-home and place-based screens. It is a broader incumbent relative to Community Hub's signage module, particularly for larger-scale digital out-of-home deployments.
• Granicus: Granicus offers a digital communications and civic engagement platform for government, including digital signage, public-meeting streaming, and constituent messaging. It is a direct overlap with Community Hub's digital signage and community communications modules selling to the same municipal buyers.
• Four Winds Interactive (FWI) / Poppulo: FWI, now part of Poppulo, provides enterprise digital signage and workplace experience software. It is a broader incumbent in the digital signage space, competing with Community Hub's digital signage module for corporate, public-sector, and venue customers.
• CivicPlus: CivicPlus is a large incumbent provider of integrated civic engagement software for local governments, including websites, community engagement, and digital communications. It overlaps with Community Hub's municipal and school-district customer base, though CivicPlus operates as a broader suite rather than a sustainability-focused platform.

Direct peers

• Lucid (BuildingOS): Lucid's BuildingOS is a building-level energy and sustainability data visualization platform, serving as a direct competitor to Community Hub's Building Dashboard for tracking real-time resource use in buildings.
• Bang the Table (EngagementHQ): Bang the Table's EngagementHQ is a dedicated community engagement platform for local governments and organizations, providing online consultations, community calendars, and participatory tools. It is one of the closest direct competitors to Community Hub's community-engagement-focused modules (Calendar, Voices, Phone App).
• Scala Digital Signage: Scala is a long-standing enterprise digital signage platform used across retail, public-sector, and corporate environments. It competes directly with Community Hub's Digital Signage Software and Phone App modules for public-facing displays in similar venues.

Others

• Patagonia Action Works (community engagement platform concept): Patagonia's Action Works is a community engagement platform that connects individuals with environmental activism opportunities. It is thematically adjacent to Community Hub's sustainability/community engagement mission but does not directly compete for the same municipal SaaS contracts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/community-hub-incorporated

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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