Levitate Raises $16M in Funding to Expand Relationship Marketing Platform
Levitate just raised $16M, and the name suddenly feels less like branding and more like physics. When your product helps businesses stay connected to the people who matter most, you are not just sending emails. You are lifting relationships off the ground. The round was led by Harbert Growth Partners, with Bull City Venture Partners and Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures stepping back into the cockpit. Smart capital tends to follow real traction, and Levitate has plenty of that.
Credit starts with Founder and CEO Jesse Lipson, an entrepreneur who clearly understands something a lot of software forgot somewhere between dashboards and data lakes. Relationships run the economy. Always have. Always will. Technology either strengthens that truth or quietly suffocates it. Levitate chose door number one.
More than 8,000 businesses are now using the platform, which has evolved from a focused email tool into a full relationship marketing engine. Email, texting, social media, surveys, review management, meeting scheduling, websites, blogs, even handwritten cards. If communication channels were instruments, Levitate just built the whole orchestra and handed small businesses the baton.
The play here is subtle but powerful. Most software tries to automate attention. Levitate tries to amplify authenticity. The platform helps businesses remember the little things about their clients, reach out at the right moment, and stay present without sounding like a robot wearing a necktie. AI becomes the assistant, not the replacement. That distinction matters more than people realize.
The numbers hint at momentum, but the real signal sits in the philosophy. Relationship driven businesses such as financial advisors, insurance professionals, real estate teams, legal firms, nonprofits, and service providers have always won through trust and consistency. Levitate simply built infrastructure around that old school truth and wrapped it in modern AI.
Capital like this does not show up just because the pitch deck had nice fonts. It shows up because investors see the pattern forming. Harbert Growth Partners leaning in while Bull City Venture Partners and Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures double down tells you the story is still early and the runway just got longer.
The new funding pushes Levitate deeper into AI development while expanding customer success and sales across the United States and Canada. Translation for the operators reading this. The company is not just scaling technology. It is scaling proximity to the customer, which in a relationship business is the only metric that really compounds.
Congratulations to the entire Levitate team for turning a simple idea into something with real lift. Because in a world drowning in automated noise, the companies that rise are the ones that remember a simple principle. Stay human. Stay present. Stay in touch. And watch the business levitate.