Type Private Area served Worldwide Website www.pixlee.com | Industry Visual Marketing Number of employees 25 Founded July 2012 | |
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Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States Founders Jeff Chen, Kyle Wong, Awad Sayeed, Miraj Mohsin Profiles | ||
Pixlee is a visual marketing platform that allows businesses to market and sell with real customer photos and videos.
History
Pixlee was founded in July 2012 in Palo Alto, California by Kyle Wong, Awad Sayeed, Miraj Mohsin, and Jeff Chen. The group founded Pixlee out of Wong's Stanford University dorm room before being accepted to the StartX Business Incubator in 2012.
After graduating from the StartX program, Pixlee closed a $1.5 million seed funding round from a number of Venture Capital firms and individual Silicon Valley investors. Some of the notable contributors to the round were Andreessen Horowitz, XSeed Capital, and Rothenberg Ventures. In 2015, Pixlee closed a $4 million venture round from investors including GS Shop and You & Mr Jones Brandtech Ventures.
The company has won numerous awards including Digiday's Signal Award for 'Best Content Curation Platform,' SXSW 'Most Disruptive Retail Technology' Audience Choice Award, and San Francisco Business Time's Best Places to Work.
Pixlee is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York and Toronto.