Pixis (formerly known as Pyxis One) announced it has secured US $100M in Series C funding.
Pixis will leverage the fresh funds to help the company rapidly scale its AI
platforms and plugins, as well as accelerate expansions across North America,
Europe, and APAC.
The
Series C round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from new
investor General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm. Existing
investors Celesta Capital, Premji Invest, and Chiratae Ventures also participated
in the round. With the close of its US $17M Series B round just four months
prior, Pixis has raised a total of US $124M to date since its founding in 2018.
Pixis'
AI infrastructure, which leverages self-evolving neural networks, is providing
immense value to customers through its codeless AI plugin, enabling AI-powered
decision-making for every aspect of marketing. Pixis recently launched its
codeless AI plugin after closing Series B, with the belief that a powerful
codeless AI infrastructure will help safeguard marketers against inevitable
developments that will change the current marketing ecosystem. Looking ahead,
Pixis aims to add over 200 customizable self-evolving AI models to the
infrastructure it offers and has already introduced close to four dozen AI
models since its last funding.
"The
web going cookieless, in conjunction with decreasing access to the depth of
data that was previously available, is a worrisome situation for marketers. In
this environment, it is self-evolving neural networks that are proving to be
invaluable assets in countering the disruptions to the marketing landscape,"
explained Shubham A. Mishra, co-founder and Global CEO at Pixis. "We are
excited to partner with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and General Atlantic to make codeless
AI infrastructure accessible to every market in the world."
Shantanu
Rastogi, Managing Director at General Atlantic, continued, "Pixis is disrupting
the marketing space with a self-learning codeless AI infrastructure that serves
a mission-critical function in the marketing tech stack. The AI plugins and
platforms solve key customer problems and are improving business outcomes. The
Pixis platform demonstrates the power of global entrepreneurship, and we are
proud to support the team's ambitions of continued expansion."
The
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 investment in Pixis confirms that in a cookieless world,
Artificial Intelligence could be the big differentiating factor for brands.
"Marketing is one of the largest spend categories for companies but many of its
decisions are still driven by intuition rather than data," said Priya
Saiprasad, Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. "Pixis has developed an end-to-end codeless AI infrastructure
that equips teams with cutting-edge data science to automate and improve core
processes, from budget allocation to real-time campaign optimization and
reporting. We are excited to partner with Shubham and the team to support their
mission to make marketing data-backed, intelligent, agile, and effortlessly
scalable in the new cookie-less world."
Since
its inception, the company has grown by 600%. Pixis currently has over 100
customers using its AI products across the world. Customers using the Pixis AI
infrastructure have witnessed a 20% decrease in acquisition costs on average,
in addition to at least 300 hours of manual work saved per month. The clinching
factor for customers is definitely the prospect of activating AI in 8 seconds
without having to write a single line of code.