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Marketing Automation

Marketing automation platforms enable businesses to automate, orchestrate, and measure customer communications across multiple channels and touchpoints. Marketers, sales teams, and customer success organizations use these tools to execute campaigns at scale, nurture leads through defined workflows, and coordinate messaging across email, social media, mobile, and other channels. The category encompasses email campaign management, workflow automation, social media scheduling, account-based targeting, and customer data integration. These platforms typically include analytics to track campaign performance and customer engagement, allowing teams to optimize outreach based on measurable results. Solutions range from specialized tools focused on single channels to comprehensive suites that integrate CRM, sales, and marketing functions into unified systems.

Companies

249

Tier distribution

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249 Marketing Automation companies tracked by ATDb — 35 leaders, 8 recent deals.

Avg Completeness
83%
News (30d)
54
Deals (90d)
8
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(31)
ActiveCampaign

ActiveCampaign

Marketing Automation & CRM

ActiveCampaign is a privately held email marketing, marketing automation, sales automation, and CRM platform founded by Jason VandeBoom in 2003, primarily serving small to mid-sized businesses.

Chicago, Illinois
Adobe Campaign

Adobe Campaign

Cross-Channel Campaign Management / Marketing Automation

Adobe Campaign is a marketing automation platform that enables users to plan, create, and manage customer communications across multiple channels.

San Jose, California
Adobe Journey Optimizer

Adobe Journey Optimizer

Customer Journey Orchestration / Cross-Channel Marketing Automation

Adobe Journey Optimizer is a customer journey and engagement platform built natively on Adobe Experience Platform, whose core capabilities include real-time customer profiling, event-triggered journeys, audience-based campaign orchestration, offer decisioning, and cross-channel message delivery.

San Jose, California
Braze

Braze

Customer Engagement & Marketing Automation

Braze, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in New York City that serves as a customer engagement platform for businesses engaged in multichannel marketing.

New York, New York
Celtra

Celtra

Creative Management & Ad Production Technology

Celtra is a creative operating system for modern advertising that helps enterprise businesses unlock advertising performance through AI-powered creation, performance-driven optimization, and seamless media activation, turning creative from an operational bottleneck into a scalable driver of advertising effectiveness across channels.

Boston, Massachusetts
Cheetah Digital

Cheetah Digital

Acquired

Customer Engagement & Loyalty Marketing

Cheetah Digital is a cross-channel customer engagement solution provider for the modern marketer that unifies data collection, messaging, loyalty, and analytics in one platform designed for enterprise brands, backed by deliverability capabilities to ensure messages reliably reach the inbox.

Chicago, Illinois
Constant Contact

Constant Contact

Email Marketing / Digital Marketing Automation

Constant Contact is a digital marketing and automation platform serving small businesses and nonprofits globally.

Waltham, Massachusetts
Epsilon

Epsilon

Marketing Technology / Data-Driven Advertising

Epsilon is a marketing technology firm acquired by Publicis Groupe in 2019, now operating as a central pillar of that global network with more than 8,000 employees across over 40 offices worldwide.

Irving, Texas
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ExactTarget

Rebranded

Marketing Automation / Email Marketing

ExactTarget, now Salesforce Marketing Cloud, was a digital marketing automation and analytics platform founded in 2000 that built its reputation on robust and innovative email marketing solutions.

Indianapolis, Indiana
(86)
Acoustic

Acoustic

Marketing Technology / Marketing Automation / Customer Experience

Acoustic is an independent marketing cloud platform that emerged from IBM's marketing and commerce software division. In 2019, Centerbridge Partners acquired these assets from IBM, creating Acoustic as a standalone entity focused on delivering personalized customer experiences at scale. The company provides a comprehensive suite of marketing automation, personalization, and customer engagement tools designed to help B2B and B2C organizations orchestrate meaningful interactions across multiple...

New York, NY, United States, New York
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Acoustic Campaign

Marketing Automation & Email Marketing

Enterprise marketing cloud platform offering email marketing, marketing automation, and customer journey orchestration capabilities.

Nashville, Tennessee
Acquia

Acquia

Acquired

Digital Experience Platform / Content Management

Acquia is a digital experience platform provider specializing in open-source content management, customer data, and marketing automation solutions built on Drupal.

Boston, Massachusetts
Act-On

Act-On

Acquired

Marketing Automation

Act-On is a marketing automation platform designed for mid-market businesses, offering tools for email marketing, lead nurturing, and campaign analytics.

Portland, Oregon
Adestra

Adestra

Acquired

Email Marketing Automation

Adestra was an email marketing automation platform that provided sophisticated email campaign management and personalization tools before being acquired by Upland Software in 2016.

Oxford, England
Adext

Adext

Adext is an AI-powered platform that optimizes digital advertising campaigns using machine learning. It identifies the best audiences and channels, automating ad spend allocation to significantly improve return on investment (ROI) for businesses. The platform aims to help companies efficiently scale their customer acquisition efforts.

Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator

Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator

Marketing Technology / AdTech Infrastructure

Platform layer underlying Adobe Brand Concierge and all Adobe AI agents. Launched March 2025. The agentic-AI infrastructure for Adobe Experience Cloud.

San Jose, California
Agentforce for Marketing

Agentforce for Marketing

Marketing Automation / AI-Powered MarTech

Pre-built Agentforce skill set for marketers (campaign brief, audience segmentation, email/SMS content, journey building, campaign summary). Includes Campaign Optimizer for full-lifecycle automation. Part of the Agentforce 360 platform family.

San Francisco, California
Albert

Albert

AI-Powered Marketing Automation

Albert is an enterprise-grade AI-powered marketing platform that functions as an autonomous digital marketer, revolutionizing multi-channel campaign management through advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence. The platform autonomously executes, optimizes, and scales marketing campaigns across paid search, social media, programmatic display, and other digital channels with minimal human intervention. Albert's self-learning technology continuously analyzes massive datasets to iden...

New York, New York
(81)
Adgistics

Adgistics

Marketing Technology - Marketing Resource Management (MRM) and Brand Management Software

Adgistics is a specialized enterprise software provider focused on brand management and marketing resource management (MRM) solutions for organizations with distributed marketing operations. The platform serves as a centralized hub enabling marketing teams to manage brand assets, orchestrate multi-channel campaigns, automate workflow approvals, and enforce brand compliance across complex organizational structures including franchisees, dealers, regional offices, and multiple locations. By con...

London, NY
Appcues

Appcues

Appcues is a no-code platform that empowers product teams to create personalized in-app experiences. It helps companies onboard new users, announce features, collect feedback, and guide users through their product without requiring engineering resources. The platform aims to improve user adoption, retention, and overall product engagement.

Boston, Massachusetts
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Barilliance

eCommerce Personalization and Conversion Optimization

Barilliance is an eCommerce personalization platform that helps online retailers boost conversions through behavioral targeting, cart abandonment recovery, and real-time product recommendations.

Tel Aviv
Benchmark Email

Benchmark Email

Email Marketing / Marketing Automation

Benchmark Email is a comprehensive email marketing service provider offering tools for businesses to create, send, and track email campaigns. It provides features like marketing automation, landing page builders, and surveys, aiming to help users engage their audience and drive growth.

Los Alamitos, California
Boomtrain

Boomtrain

Acquired

Marketing Technology / Personalization

Boomtrain was an AI-powered personalization platform that helped publishers and brands deliver individualized content recommendations across email, web, and mobile channels.

San Francisco, California
Brandnew IO

Brandnew IO

AI-Powered Advertising Automation

Brandnew IO is an AI-powered platform that automates and optimizes digital advertising campaigns across various channels. It helps businesses create high-performing ads quickly and efficiently using artificial intelligence and data-driven insights.

Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor

Email Marketing & Marketing Automation

Campaign Monitor is an email marketing platform offering intuitive drag-and-drop tools, automation, and analytics to help businesses create and send professional campaigns at scale.

Nashville, Tennessee
Campaigner

Campaigner

Email Marketing & Marketing Automation

Email marketing automation platform providing advanced segmentation, personalization, and workflow capabilities for businesses of all sizes.

Irvine, California
Carts Guru

Carts Guru

Marketing Automation / E-commerce Marketing

Marketing automation platform specializing in cart abandonment recovery and multi-channel customer engagement for e-commerce businesses.

Paris, Île-de-France
(15)
Airship

Airship

Mobile Marketing & Customer Engagement

Airship is an AI/ML platform that helps companies optimize their digital marketing and customer engagement efforts.

Portland, Oregon
Aweber

Aweber

Email Marketing & Marketing Automation

Aweber is an email marketing and automation platform that helps businesses of all sizes grow their email lists and engage with their subscribers.

Chalfont, Pennsylvania
CleverTap

CleverTap

Customer Engagement & Marketing Automation

CleverTap is a customer engagement and retention platform that helps businesses personalize their interactions with customers across multiple channels, including mobile apps, websites, and email.

Mountain View, California
Convertcart

Convertcart

E-commerce Personalization / Conversion Rate Optimization

Convertcart is an AI-powered e-commerce personalization platform designed to help online businesses optimize their conversion rates and increase revenue. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including product recommendations, abandoned cart recovery, and customer segmentation, to deliver highly tailored shopping experiences.

Bengaluru, Karnataka
Growmatik

Growmatik

Marketing Automation & Personalization

Growmatik is an AI-powered marketing automation platform specifically designed for WordPress websites. It enables businesses to personalize their website content, emails, and pop-ups in real-time based on individual user behavior, aiming to boost conversions and engagement.

Leanplum

Leanplum

Acquired

Mobile Marketing and Customer Engagement

Leanplum is a mobile marketing platform that enables personalized multi-channel engagement through A/B testing, push notifications, in-app messaging, and lifecycle automation — acquired by CleverTap in 2022.

San Francisco, California
Movable Ink

Movable Ink

Marketing Technology / Personalization Platform

Movable Ink is an AdTech Platform that enables personalized and dynamic email marketing campaigns.

New York, New York
Responsys

Responsys

Acquired

Marketing Automation / MarTech

Enterprise email and cross-channel marketing automation platform acquired by Oracle in 2013, now part of Oracle Marketing Cloud.

San Bruno, California
Retency

Retency

Marketing Automation & Customer Retention

Unranked(32)
Airtable

Airtable

Marketing Technology / Work Management / Low-Code Platform

Airtable is a low-code platform that combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the power of a database, enabling users to build collaborative applications. It allows teams to organize information, manage projects, and automate workflows without extensive coding knowledge, serving various use cases from content calendars to CRM.

San Francisco, California
Appian

Appian

Appian is a software company that provides a low-code automation platform, enabling organizations to rapidly build intelligent process automation applications. Its platform integrates artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA), and business process management (BPM) capabilities. Appian helps businesses streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and accelerate digital transformation initiatives across various industries.

Automate.io

Automate.io

Acquired

Marketing Technology / Integration Platform

Cloud-based integration platform that connects business applications and automates workflows without coding, enabling data synchronization across marketing, sales, and productivity tools.

San Francisco, California
Bonsai

Bonsai

Marketing Technology (MarTech) - AI-Powered Marketing Automation

Bonsai is an AI-powered marketing platform designed to help modern businesses streamline content creation and optimize campaign performance through advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The platform addresses critical challenges in today's digital marketing landscape, including delivering personalized customer experiences at scale across fragmented channels, managing diverse customer segments, and meeting increasing consumer demands for customization. By automati...

Botkit

Botkit

Acquired

Conversational AI / Chatbot Development

An open-source developer tool for building chatbots, messaging apps, and conversational interfaces across multiple platforms.

Austin, Texas
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Botkit Studio

Acquired

Conversational AI / Chatbot Development

Botkit Studio was a visual bot-building platform and hosted service built around the open-source Botkit framework, enabling developers and businesses to create conversational chatbots for messaging platforms.

San Francisco, California
Botpress

Botpress

Botpress is an open-source conversational AI platform that empowers developers and businesses to build, deploy, and manage AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants. It provides a flexible and extensible framework for creating sophisticated conversational experiences across various channels, focusing on developer-friendly tools and a robust NLU engine. The platform supports both self-hosted and cloud-based deployments.

C

Chili Piper

MarTech/SalesTech (Revenue Operations)

Chili Piper is a SaaS platform that automates meeting scheduling and lead routing for B2B sales teams, helping companies convert inbound leads faster.

Brooklyn, New York
ClickUp

ClickUp

Project Management & Workflow Automation Software

ClickUp is a leading provider of workflow automation and project management solutions designed to consolidate multiple productivity tools into a single, unified platform. The company has established itself as a comprehensive work management solution that enables teams to plan, organize, and collaborate on projects with enhanced efficiency. ClickUp's platform addresses the common challenge of tool fragmentation in modern workplaces by offering an all-in-one solution that combines task manageme...

San Diego, California, United States, California