# Mike Mixon

> Mike Mixon is a St. Louis technology founder and revenue executive who co-founded business-texting platform Textel, led its commercial growth, and continued into Capacity after the AI support-automation company acquired Textel in 2023. His public record is unusually consistent: he favors simple systems, visible sales pipelines, fast implementation, and customer communication that fits ordinary behavior rather than forcing people into another app or phone call.

- **Role:** Founder and Revenue Leader at Capacity
- **Organizations:** Capacity, Textel, Ram Board, Gravity Payments
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree, CBS - Houston, Texas
- **Known for:** Co-founded Textel, a cloud business-texting platform built for businesses and contact centers., Helped develop Textel from a small-business landline-texting product into a platform used by more than 1,700 customers at the time of its acquisition., Built sales and marketing processes that he said produced monthly sales increases of more than 25% after automation was introduced.

## Career timeline

- **2005-2007** — Worked as a sales representative at Gravity Payments.
- **2007-2015** — Served as vice president of sales at Ram Board.
- **2014** — Co-founded Textel with James Diel and John Meany in St. Louis.
- **2015** — Became Textel's chief revenue officer, after also being identified publicly as its CMO.
- **2017** — Described Textel's small-business product, sales process, and reported monthly sales gains of more than 25% after adding marketing automation.
- **2020** — Helped lead a rapid Textel deployment for Pearson: a roadmap in the first two to three weeks and deployment in 30 days.
- **2021** — Joined James Diel on the Reimagining the Contact Center podcast to discuss SMS, text bots, and RCS.
- **2023** — Textel was acquired by Capacity; the business remained in St. Louis and brought more than 1,700 customers.
- **2024** — Represented the combined Textel by Capacity team at Genesys Xperience, discussing SMS support and AI-enabled customer experience.
- **2026** — Continued at Capacity as the company reported more than 20,000 organizations served, $100 million in ARR, and a $54 million-plus Series E.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Textel, a cloud business-texting platform built for businesses and contact centers.
- Helped develop Textel from a small-business landline-texting product into a platform used by more than 1,700 customers at the time of its acquisition.
- Built sales and marketing processes that he said produced monthly sales increases of more than 25% after automation was introduced.
- Helped establish partnerships and integrations across contact-center, unified-communications, and point-of-sale platforms.
- Completed a strategic exit when Capacity acquired Textel in January 2023 and continued working inside the combined organization.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Capacity announced more than $54 million in Series E funding, with plans to invest in product development, go-to-market teams, partnerships, and international expansion.
- **2026-06** — Capacity reported surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue after growing from $5 million in 3.5 years.
- **2026-06** — Mixon wrote that watching Capacity's growth from inside after the Textel acquisition had been incredible and said he was grateful to be part of the team.

## Links

- Website: https://capacity.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mixonmike
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gssUlUQ8UM

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Last updated: 2026-09-27