Top Email Startups in 2024

Hive is an email & SMS marketing CRM that helps brands sell more while keeping their customers happy and engaged. We make it easy for companies to segment and target their customers based on relevant attributes, automate email marketing campaigns, and send timely, high-converting emails. We started our company inside a University of Waterloo computer lab in early 2014, graduated from Y Combinator that summer (S14 batch) and have been growing ever since. Originally based out of Kitchener, our remote team of 14 is now distributed all across Canada!

Mixmax makes email as powerful as web pages by enabling actions like completing purchases, confirming expense reports, scheduling events, and answering surveys—all within an email, no plugins required. Any developer can bring interactive apps into email using Mixmax as a platform, without worrying about client idiosyncrasies. After building communications products at companies like Apple, Google, and Skype we saw a huge opportunity to build a world where email maximizes both your productivity and expressiveness. Our team met at Inkling, where together we built Inkling Habitat, the WYSIWYG ebook editor now used by the world’s biggest publishers. We have unique experience in enabling interactivity cross-platform. Get Mixmax here: mixmax.com Check out our Twitter Wall of Love here: twitter.com/MixmaxHQ/timelines/676913925221449728 Check out our engineering stack: stackshare.io/mixmax

Phrasee uses artificial intelligence to write better email subject lines, body copy and calls-to-action than humans. Since launch in Feb 2015, Phrasee-generated language beats humans >95% of the time. Awesome.

Reply is the AI-powered sales engagement platform that helps sales teams find new prospects, engage them through multiple channels, and create new opportunities at scale while keeping every touchpoint personal. From building targeted prospect lists with our own free database of 140+ million contacts to booking calls right through the platform – Reply allows you to streamline your sales process, saving up to 40% of your SDR team’s time. Powered by cutting-edge AI technologies, Reply handles some of the most time-consuming tasks on your behalf: - Generate unique email templates based on a prompt or from scratch - Assess and optimize your existing email template to improve performance - Craft complex outreach sequences for any occasion or business goal - Categorize emails in your inbox based on intent to pinpoint the hottest leads - Respond to incoming emails on your behalf – from booking calls to handling objections Its robust reporting system tracks all activities for every team member and automatically logs them to your CRM via native integrations, rich API with 40+ methods, or Zapier. Reply offers in-depth analytics dashboards helping you stay on top of your team’s performance. One of the Top 50 Sales Products for 2023 on G2, Reply is recognized for its market-leading customer success/support services and trusted by over 2,500 companies – SMBs, mid-market, and sales agencies – in the US, Canada, and Europe.

We’re Maropost-India, a 2024 Great Place To Work certified company and a subsidiary of Canada’s 4th fastest-growing tech company as named by Profit 500! Our Software as a Service Marketing Cloud technology provides organizations with a single platform to connect with customers via marketing automation, mass and transactional email, social media, mobile messaging, landing pages, and eCommerce. Our platform is used and trusted by thousands of brands worldwide to maximize their revenue. Our unified eCommerce platform empowers thousands of B2B and multi-channel eCommerce businesses, big and small, to achieve more. From online stores, POS terminals, and marketplace connections, to inventory, order management, and shipping, our all-in-one platform connects it all. We’re on a mission to build the most technically advanced marketing & eCommerce platform in the world coupled with unsurpassed customer service and support.

Our customers range from small online retailers to enterprise brands. We help them increase revenue, branding and engagement with their end consumers. Most clients see a lift of 40% in engagement and 80% in revenue in under 12 months as well as a $19 cost per customer acquisition.

Givebutter is the #1 rated fundraising platform on G2, powering $300M+ in donations for more than a million Changemakers worldwide. Nonprofits use Givebutter to replace multiple tools so they can launch fundraisers and events, use donation forms and donor management (CRM), send emails and text blasts—all in one place. Instead of charging a traditional SaaS subscription fee, Givebutter is completely free to use with a 100% transparent tip-or-fee model. Givebutter has been certified as a Great Place to Work® in 2021 and 2022, and its founders Max Friedman, Liran Cohen, and Ari Krasner were recently featured on Forbes’ 30U30 list for Social Impact. For more information on Givebutter, visit givebutter.com.

Our FanBridge Audience CRM platform (FanBridge.com) provides tools clients use to grow and engage their fan audience, primarily via email marketing. Our Channel Pages (channelpages.com) platform is a collaboration engine that helps YouTube channels find other channels for growth collaborations, as well as enables sponsors to find channels to do integrated sponsorships and marketing.

Stensul dramatically reduces marketing creation time - by up to 90% - so teams can better focus on improving marketing performance. Stensul makes this possible by streamlining the collaboration process and simplifying marketing asset creation for all marketers so they can create high-performing campaigns that drive stronger results. Stensul integrates with all leading ESPs/MAPs, workflow platforms, image digital asset management platforms, live content, link tracking, and messaging platforms. Top brands that trust Stensul to solve their most demanding marketing creation problems include BlackRock, BMW, Cisco, Demandbase, Equifax, Greenhouse, Siemens, Thomson Reuters, and Yahoo.

Lightmeter is the first sales email delivery service. It works with existing sales tools like Apollo, HubSpot, and Salesforce. It enables salespeople to boost their reply rates and revenues, while cutting sales mail maintenance and troubleshooting to zero.