ActiveCampaign
Funding History
| Series C · 04/2021 | $3.0B |
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About
ActiveCampaign builds a customer experience automation platform combining email marketing, marketing automation, SMS and WhatsApp messaging, and a sales CRM, with generative AI capabilities layered in since 2023. It was founded in Chicago in 2003 by Jason VandeBoom, who remains chief executive, and reports more than 180,000 customers in 170-plus countries and roughly 800 employees, with offices in Chicago, Dublin, Florianópolis, Kraków, and Heredia.
- CEO
- Jason VandeBoom
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
- Founded
- 2003
- Website
- activecampaign.com
- Employees
- ~800 (2026)
Overview
ActiveCampaign is a Chicago-based privately held software company founded in 2003 by Jason VandeBoom, who remains CEO. The company combines email marketing, marketing automation, SMS and WhatsApp messaging, and a sales CRM into a single "customer experience automation" platform, with generative AI features added starting in 2023.
ActiveCampaign reports more than 180,000 customers across 170-plus countries and roughly 800 global team members, with offices in Chicago plus Dublin, Florianópolis, Kraków, and Heredia.
The company raised a $20 million round from Silversmith Capital Partners in 2016, a $100 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity in January 2020, and a $240 million Series C led by Tiger Global in April 2021 that valued the company at more than $3 billion.
It has grown partly through acquisitions, buying transactional-email provider Postmark and DMARC monitoring tool DMARC Digests in May 2022, Australian multi-location marketing platform Onesend in October 2023, Mexico City-based WhatsApp automation startup Hilos in April 2025, and AI evaluation platform Feedback Intelligence in February 2026. ActiveCampaign named its first chief financial officer in September 2023.
The company remains an independent, privately held business; it has not gone public, been acquired, or been reported bankrupt, wound down, or sanctioned.
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