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Flodesk
Flodesk is a bootstrapped, San Francisco-based email marketing and e-commerce platform built for creators, coaches, and small businesses that care about design. Founded in 2019 by Rebecca Shostak, Martha Bitar, and Trong Dong, it pairs an intuitive drag-and-drop email builder with beautiful templates, automations, forms, link-in-bio pages, and a no-fee Stripe checkout. The company grew profitably to more than $36 million in annual recurring revenue and over 100,000 paying customers without taking outside funding, and in 2026 it launched Flodesk Studio, an AI design app that turns hours of email creation into minutes.
Pixis
Pixis is a codeless AI infrastructure company for marketing, giving advertising teams a suite of plug-and-play AI models that plan, target, optimize, and create ad campaigns without writing code. Founded in 2018 by three BITS Pilani classmates and headquartered in Burlingame, California, the company has built 200+ proprietary AI models and serves more than 1,000 customers, including 18 Fortune 2000 brands. It raised $209M across Series A through C1, backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Touring Capital, and others.