“Can a focused, price-competitive email/SMS marketing automation platform out-execute Klaviyo and Mailchimp for Shopify-centric SMB and mid-market ecommerce merchants?”
Founded 2014 as Soundest, a bare-bones email tool for Shopify merchants. Rebranded to Omnisend in 2017 and expanded into omnichannel — adding SMS (2018) and web push. The company has stayed narrowly focused on ecommerce marketing automation for SMB/mid-market Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Wix merchants, competing directly with Klaviyo and Mailchimp on price. Recent pivot (2025) is toward AI-native marketing workflows via Omnisend MCP, Forms AI and Reports AI — connecting the platform to ChatGPT and Claude rather than building embedded finance.
Omnisend integrates with Shopify, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, WordPress, WooCommerce, Wix, Shoplazza, Ecwid and 2 others.
Omnisend was founded by Rytis Lauris and Justas Kriukas and is founded in 2014, headquartered in London, United Kingdom (with offices in Vilnius, Lithuania and Charleston, SC, USA).
Omnisend has raised ~$186K EUR disclosed (bootstrapped/profitable) in total (latest round: Seed, $1.57M).
Omnisend's acquisitions include Outfunnel (2020).
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