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Voyage SMS

Can an SMS marketing platform differentiate against Attentive and Postscript by combining automation with human live-agent conversational commerce?

Founded2019
HQSanta Monica, California, United States
Total raised$11.9M
Latest round$10M (with LiveRecover acquisition)
IndustryHorizontal SaaS / Marketing (SMS)
The story

Voyage SMS is an eCommerce-focused SMS marketing platform (legal entity: Voyage Mobile, Inc.) founded 2019 and based in Santa Monica/LA. It competes with Attentive, Postscript, and Klaviyo SMS. In 2022 it raised $10M and acquired LiveRecover to add conversational commerce with live agents (First Mate). It is a pure SaaS marketing tool — not an embedded finance platform.

Last 12 months
Product timeline
2019
Voyage Mobile, Inc. founded to build SMS marketing platform for eCommerce· pivot
2022
Raised $10M and acquired LiveRecover, a conversational messaging platform· acquisition
2022
Launched First Mate by Voyage — human-in-the-loop live agent SMS product· pivot
Acquisitions
LiveRecover2022
Conversational SMS/messaging platform acquired to power Voyage's live-agent 'First Mate' offering
The stack
0 layers disclosed in Voyage SMS’s embedded-finance stack
Accounting gap: none