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Sigstr, an email signature marketing platform, announced recently it has raised an additional $1.5 million in capital from leading software executives. The round, led by Indianapolis-based 4G Ventures’ Managing Partner, Bill Godfrey, also includes San Francisco-based Steve Goodman, angel investor, and Eduardo Vivas, Head of Talent Solutions, LinkedIn; Brandon Cruz, President and Co-Founder, GoHealth; Matt […]
Sailthru recently announced that its annual digital insights summit, Sailthru Lift, will be taking place at The Brooklyn Museum October 19-20, 2015. The event will once again bring together more than 200 digital marketers, featuring executives from variety of ecommerce and digital publishing brands including Rob Schutz, Head of Growth, BarkBox; Dana Hork, Director of […]
MailChimp announced that Scott Culpepper has joined the company in a newly created position as General Counsel and member of the executive team, reporting to CEO Ben Chestnut. Culpepper is a lawyer and registered patent attorney with expertise in technology and intellectual property. He brings to MailChimp 19 years of experience advising technology clients, from […]
You create and send regular emails to your database as part of your marketing channel mix. You no doubt run tests on what works best to improve your email marketing. But do you use your emails to test hypotheses that could inform and improve your other channels – such as PPC ads, website copy and […]
LiveIntent had announced last week the planned acquisition of the ‘AVARI recommendation engine’ product from RetentionGrid Limited in Germany, this now appears to be concluded as it is reported and highlighted on the AVARI.IO website maintained by RetentionGrid. LiveIntent stated they would use the purchase as a springboard into the German market, as part of […]
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. have announced an offer to acquire Constant Contact in a deal that values Constant Contact at over a Billion dollars ahead of November 5, when ConstantContact will announce quarterly earnings for 2015Q3. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Constant Contact will receive $32.00 in cash for each share […]
No longer bootstrapped and proud, the startup has taken $49 million dollars in investment. Like many of their peers who followed the bootstrapped philosophy including Github, Campaign Monitor, TechSmith. I always considered it an inevitable eventuality for them, for many however it is a shocking turn of events. Whenever I have proposed they will be […]
SMTP, Inc. announced recently that it has secured a $5 million financing round. The round was led by the Company’s two largest institutional investors, Special Situations Fund and Bard Associates. The original owners of SharpSpring (which we acquired in 2014) also participated in the round by exchanging $3 million in future cash payments for the […]
GB Heidarrson, CEO of eDataSource, announced today “We are thrilled with our Q1 performance across all our key drivers – new client wins, client retention, new platform enhancements and expansion of our analytic’s staffing. Q1 was the 5th consecutive quarter of rapid growth, fueled by the success of our state of the art technology and […]
MailUp recently announced the acquisition of 70% of Acumbamail, with the option to acquire the remaining 30% of the company 3 years after signing the agreement. Acumbamail is the email marketing company in Spain. Founded in 2012, the startup has experienced sales growth of over 200% (2014 on 2013) and EBITDA of approximately 30% (2014). After […]
SendGrid recently announced that it has acquired the customer base of Message Bus. “This acquisition immediately adds scale to our expanding customer roster and we’re excited to bring Message Bus customers onto our platform,” said Sameer Dholakia, CEO of SendGrid. “This announcement underscores our momentum and rapid growth as we add nearly 1,500 new customers per […]
Constant Contact announced recently a $50 million stock repurchase program. Under the stock repurchase program, Constant Contact is authorized to repurchase up to $50 million of the company’s common stock. The company intends to purchase shares pursuant to a 10b5-1 trading plan through July 2016. Shares may also be repurchased from time-to-time in privately negotiated […]