# Erik Kostelnik

> Erik Kostelnik is a San Luis Obispo entrepreneur and sales executive who co-founded TextRecruit, acquired by iCIMS in 2018, and Postal, acquired by Sendoso in May 2025 while he was CEO. He now leads BrandScreen and is co-founder and CSO of Navi.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at BrandScreen; Co-founder and CSO at Navi
- **Organizations:** BrandScreen, Navi, Postal by Sendoso, TextRecruit, iCIMS, Wrike, Identified, CareerBuilder, Outreach, GTMfund, LexCheck, Reciprocity, Forbes Technology Council
- **Education:** BSBA, Finance, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy, MIT Sloan and MIT CSAIL coursework/certificate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-founded TextRecruit and led it through acquisition by iCIMS in 2018., Co-founded Postal and was CEO when Sendoso acquired it in 2025., Postal ranked No. 34 in Deloitte’s 2024 Technology Fast 500, with 5,215% revenue growth in Deloitte’s published table.

## Career timeline

- **2008-2011** — Held sales roles at CareerBuilder.
- **2011-2014** — Vice President of Sales at Identified; Workday acquired Identified in 2014.
- **2014** — TextRecruit was operating as a centralized recruiting text messaging platform.
- **2014-2016** — Head of Sales at Wrike.
- **2017** — TextRecruit raised a $3 million Series A led by SignalFire; Kostelnik was recognized among the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Upstart 50 inventors.
- **2018** — iCIMS announced its acquisition of TextRecruit on January 8.
- **2019-2020** — Began developing Postal with Jed Danner in 2019 and publicly introduced its proposition in spring 2020.
- **2021** — Postal announced a $22 million Series B led by OMERS Ventures with Mayfield participating.
- **2023** — Hosted Taking Flight; Postal partnered with Planful to connect campaign spending with planning and ROI measurement.
- **2024** — Postal ranked No. 34 in Deloitte’s North American Technology Fast 500.
- **2025** — Sendoso announced its acquisition of Postal on May 1; Kostelnik was Postal’s co-founder and CEO at the time.
- **2026** — BrandScreen identifies him as founder and CEO and as co-founder and CSO of Navi.

## Achievements

- Co-founded TextRecruit and led it through acquisition by iCIMS in 2018.
- Co-founded Postal and was CEO when Sendoso acquired it in 2025.
- Postal ranked No. 34 in Deloitte’s 2024 Technology Fast 500, with 5,215% revenue growth in Deloitte’s published table.
- Named an Upstart 50 inventor by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2017.
- Led Postal through its $22 million Series B in 2021.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Sendoso announced its acquisition of Postal on May 1.
- **2026-10** — Research verified BrandScreen’s live biography listing Kostelnik as founder and CEO and as co-founder and CSO of Navi; this is a verification date, not a claimed appointment date.
- **2026-10** — The Sales Evangelist republished an archival Kostelnik interview on October 5; the page explicitly describes it as an archive episode.

## Links

- Website: https://www.brandscreen.com/about
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikkostelnik
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ErikKostelnik

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Last updated: 2026-10-26