How a phone call to the Seattle Seahawks in 1984 became a $552 million machine for the T-shirts, tumblers, and bobbleheads that carry the world's biggest brands.
The Icebox Cool Stuff is an Atlanta-based, full-service branded merchandise and custom apparel agency founded in 2001 on the belief that promotional products can actually be cool. It handles the whole chain - creative design, product sourcing, in-house decorating, warehouse fulfillment, company-store management and global distribution - for corporate clients ranging from Delta Air Lines to Google. Roughly 150 employees work across three locations and 150,000+ square feet of warehouse space, serving brands that want merchandise people actually keep and wear.
Snappy is a New York-based corporate gifting platform that flips the traditional gift on its head: instead of shipping one preselected item, a sender picks a budget and a curated collection, and the recipient chooses the gift they actually want. Founded in 2015 by Hani Goldstein and Dvir Cohen, Snappy started in personal gifting before pivoting to enterprise, and now powers employee recognition, customer loyalty, and sales incentives for thousands of companies. Its recipient-choice model, digital 'unwrapping' experience, thank-you loop, and deep HRIS integrations have made it a favorite of HR and people teams, with more than 6 million gifts delivered across 170+ countries.
Sendoso is a San Francisco-based B2B "Sending Platform" that lets sales, marketing, and customer teams source, store, ship, and track physical gifts, direct mail, swag, eGifts, and handwritten notes at scale. Founded in 2016 by two former sales reps who noticed that a $5 coffee gift card broke through cold-email fatigue, the company wraps that instinct in software - integrating with Salesforce, HubSpot, and Marketo so a gift can be triggered like any other campaign step and measured for ROI. After raising a $100M Series C in 2021 and reaching unicorn status, Sendoso consolidated the category by acquiring rivals Alyce (2024) and Postal (2025), and now layers AI gift recommendations on top of its global fulfillment network.