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Vero
Vero is a Sydney-based customer engagement platform that helps product-led teams send personalized email, mobile push and SMS messages triggered by what users actually do inside a product. Founded in 2012 by Chris Hexton and James Lamont, Vero pairs a real-time behavioural workflow engine with Vero Connect, an approach that reads directly from a company's data warehouse so teams can message customers without duplicating their data into yet another marketing tool.
Instant
Instant is a Sydney-founded, AI-powered retention marketing platform for ecommerce brands. It identifies anonymous shoppers, recovers abandoned carts and sends AI-generated email and SMS at the moment of highest purchase intent. After starting life as a one-click checkout tool in 2021, Instant pivoted to retention marketing and grew fast - more than 1,500 direct-to-consumer brands now use it, and the company says its AI-driven flows have generated over $1 billion in incremental revenue.
Hustle
Hustle is a San Francisco-based text and mobile messaging platform built for one-to-one conversations at scale. Founded in 2014, it lets organizations reach supporters, students, members and voters through peer-to-peer texting, broadcast SMS, a voice dialer and in-message video - with humans, not autodialers, pressing send. Widely used by political campaigns, nonprofits, higher-education fundraising teams and labor unions, Hustle has powered more than a billion messages and, since April 2026, is independent and employee-owned.
Iterable
Iterable is a San Francisco-based AI customer engagement platform that lets consumer brands coordinate personalized messaging across email, SMS, push, in-app, and web from a single system. Founded in 2013 by ex-Google engineer Andrew Boni and ex-Twitter engineer Justin Zhu, it uses unified behavioral and product data plus a growing set of AI agents, branded Nova, to build, test, and optimize customer journeys in real time. The company reached a $2 billion valuation in 2021 and serves brands including DoorDash, Fabletics, HelloFresh, Redfin, and SeatGeek.
Manychat
Manychat is a no-code chat marketing platform that lets businesses and creators automate conversations across Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, TikTok, SMS and email. Built around a visual drag-and-drop Flow Builder, it turns DMs, comments and messages into automated lead capture, sales and support flows. Founded in 2015 and now used by roughly 1.5 million customers in 170+ countries, Manychat sends billions of messages a year and has driven more than $10 billion in user sales. In 2025 it raised $140M led by Summit Partners to push deeper into AI-driven customer engagement.
Ad Hoc Labs (makers of Burner + Dialed)
Ad Hoc Labs is a Los Angeles-based independent mobile software company that builds communication tools giving people control over how they can be reached. Its flagship app, Burner, launched in 2012 as the original disposable second phone number - a privacy layer that lets users spin up, use, and delete alias numbers on demand. Its second product, Dialed, packages a business phone line, contact management, and marketing tools into one app for solopreneurs and micro-businesses. Founded by Greg Cohn and Will Carter, the company remains independent and remote, focused on utility and reliability over feature volume.
Rivet
Rivet is a Boston-based, AI-powered fan engagement platform that helps musicians, creators, labels and their teams turn attention into revenue. It stitches together scattered fan signals from social, commerce, ticketing, streaming and community channels into one owned view of every fan, then automates the outreach - email, SMS, DMs and ads - that converts casual listeners into repeat buyers. Born from a musician's frustration with tracking fans in spreadsheets, Rivet gives independent artists the kind of first-party data and CRM tooling once reserved for the industry's top 1 percent.
Vori
Vori is a San Francisco-based SaaS company building the all-in-one operating system for independent grocery stores. Their platform, VoriOS, combines AI-powered point-of-sale, inventory management, automated ordering, pricing automation, loyalty programs, and back-office analytics into a single system — giving independent grocers the same technological leverage that Walmart and Amazon use against them. Founded in 2019 by a third-generation grocer and Stanford/Cornell engineers with backgrounds at SpaceX, Lyft, and Stripe, Vori has processed over $500 million in payments across 140+ stores in 55+ cities, and raised $50 million total including a $22M Series B in May 2026.
Alex Persson
Alex Persson is the CEO of Privy, the email and SMS marketing platform built for founder-led, scrappy ecommerce brands rather than enterprise giants. A former technology investor at Jefferies and ex-CEO of WeCommerce, he took the helm of Privy in 2024 and steered its 2025 acquisition of conversational SMS pioneer Emotive, betting that growing merchants want a partner and not just another dashboard.
Attentive
Attentive is an AI-powered marketing platform that helps consumer brands talk to customers the way customers actually want to be reached - over text, email, RCS, and push. Founded in 2016 by Brian Long and Andrew Jones, the company pioneered compliant, personalized SMS marketing and now serves more than 8,000 brands, powering tens of billions of dollars in customer revenue and crossing $500M in annual recurring revenue in 2024.
Amit Jhawar
Amit Jhawar is the CEO of Attentive, the AI-powered SMS and mobile marketing platform. Before martech, he spent a decade building payments: he was among the first 30 employees at Braintree, served as its CFO and COO, engineered the acquisition of Venmo, and then ran Venmo as CEO after PayPal bought the business. A former Accel partner, he joined Attentive as President in 2021 and was promoted to CEO in June 2023, where he has steered the company from SMS marketing into a broader AI-driven customer engagement platform.
Privy
Privy is an email and SMS marketing platform built for independent ecommerce brands - the small Shopify, BigCommerce, Wix and WooCommerce stores that can't afford an enterprise marketing stack. Founded in Boston in 2011 by Ben Jabbawy, Privy pairs list-growth popups, drag-and-drop email, SMS campaigns and pre-built automations with hands-on coaching, so a one-person shop can run the kind of marketing usually reserved for big brands. It is the most-reviewed email and SMS app in the Shopify App Store and has helped 500,000+ merchants in 180+ countries drive billions in sales.
Tiffin
Tiffin is the founder and CEO of Aisle, a New York retail growth platform that turns real-world shopping into measurable in-store sales: a customer photographs a receipt, texts it in, and gets Venmo'd within minutes. He built the whole thing through text because, in his words, no one has room on their iPhone for another app. Before Aisle he talked his way into an internship at Super Coffee in 2017, dropped out of school, slept on the founders' couch, and helped scale the brand from $700K to $5M in a year - then realized brands had no idea who was buying them off the shelf. Aisle, now trusted by hundreds of CPG brands, is his answer to that blind spot.
ActiveCampaign
ActiveCampaign is a Chicago-based marketing automation platform that helps over 180,000 businesses in 170+ countries connect with their customers through email marketing, CRM, SMS, and AI-powered automation. Founded in 2003 by Jason VandeBoom - who bootstrapped it solo for 13 years before raising $360M - the company reached a $3B valuation in 2021 and now generates $250M+ in annual recurring revenue. Its platform is particularly strong for small and mid-sized businesses that need sophisticated automation without enterprise-level complexity or cost.
Brevo
Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is a Paris-based all-in-one customer engagement platform serving 500,000+ businesses across 180 countries. The platform combines email marketing, SMS, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation under one roof — all priced by email volume rather than contact count. Founded in 2012 by Armand Thiberge, Brevo rebranded from Sendinblue in 2023 to reflect its evolution from an email tool into a full customer lifecycle platform. In December 2025 it achieved unicorn status after raising €500 million in a Series C round led by General Atlantic and Oakley Capital, with a valuation exceeding €1 billion.
Chase Dimond
Chase Dimond is a partner at Structured, a full-stack ecommerce marketing agency, and one of the most-followed email marketing experts on the internet. He co-founded Boundless Labs in 2018, grew it into a 7-figure agency generating $35M+ in email-attributable client revenue, and sold it to Structured in 2020. Today he runs a media empire with 750,000+ cross-platform followers, a 100K-subscriber newsletter with a 46% open rate, and has helped ecommerce brands collectively generate $200M+ in email revenue. Shopify named him the #1 influencer to follow in ecommerce.
Klaviyo
Klaviyo is a Boston-based AI-first B2C CRM platform that unifies email marketing, SMS, push notifications, and customer service into a single data-driven system. Founded in 2012 by Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen, it went public on the NYSE in September 2023 and crossed $1.2B in annual revenue in 2025, serving 193,000+ brands in 100 countries. Klaviyo's core edge is its built-in Customer Data Platform that manages 7.3 billion customer profiles and processes 2.5 billion events daily, enabling hyper-personalized marketing at scale for direct-to-consumer brands.