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Kustomer

kustomer.com

Kustomer provides an AI-native customer service CRM that unifies conversations, automates workflows, and powers omnichannel support.

HQShort Hills, New Jersey, United States
Employees201-1000
Funding$264M
Valuation$1B
Revenue$53M
8 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 17h ago
AI / MLAI ApplicationB2B SaaSAcquired$50M-$200M

About

Kustomer builds an AI-native customer service CRM for contact centers, businesses, and consumer-facing brands. Its platform unifies customer data and conversations, automates workflows, and supports omnichannel service through a shared timeline, differentiated by AI-powered customer-experience capabilities.

Market

Kustomer competes in the cloud customer-service CRM, AI customer-experience, and omnichannel support software market. It positions itself as an AI-powered, CRM-first alternative to conventional ticketing systems, differentiating through unified customer timelines and full customer context, LLM-powered assistance, autonomous Concierge resolution, and customizable Architect workflows.

Target Customers

Kustomer targets e-commerce brands, contact centers, and other businesses with complex, high-context workflows and omnichannel support needs. Its buyer is typically a customer-experience, customer-support, or contact-center leader at an enterprise or growth-stage company seeking unified customer data, automation, and AI-assisted service.

At a Glance

Problem

Customer-service teams often manage conversations scattered across phone, email, web chat, and messaging, making it difficult to preserve context and deliver fast, consistent support. Kustomer addresses the operational pain of fragmented customer histories and repetitive agent work: the economic lever is higher agent productivity and better use of support capacity, while the killer use case is giving an agent a complete customer conversation in one place and automating routine tasks.

Product / Service

Kustomer is a SaaS, omnichannel customer-relationship-management platform for businesses and contact centers. It consolidates data and conversations from multiple sources into a single-screen or timeline view, while automations reduce repetitive work; its platform is intended to combine data, AI, and human agents to make interactions faster, richer, and more contextual.

The product is delivered as enterprise software that can scale across contact centers and supports channels including phone, email, web chat, and messaging. Its benefit is a unified operating layer for customer service: agents spend more time on meaningful interactions, businesses can support customers across their preferred channels, and service teams can build more consistent experiences.

Market

Kustomer competes in the customer-service CRM, omnichannel contact-center, and broader customer-experience software markets. Zendesk is identified among its competitors, and the company’s positioning is differentiated by a unified timeline, omnichannel coverage, data integration, and automation rather than a conventional ticket-centric workflow.

Kustomer has clear commercial traction rather than appearing to be an unlaunched, pre-revenue company: it was founded in 2015, lists brands such as Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit as users, and an official company page cites a 4.5 G2 rating with more than 475 reviews. After Meta acquired it in 2020 and later spun it out, Kustomer became independent again in May 2023 with $60 million from prior backers and a reported $250 million valuation. The available evidence does not disclose revenue or ARR, so its precise financial scale cannot be quantified.

Founders & Leadership

Brad BirnbaumFounder
CEO & Co-Founder
Jeremy SurielFounder
CTO & Co-Founder
Tanya LivingstoneChief of Staff to the CEO & Chief People Officer
Anna FisherChief Marketing Officer
Lauren GoldChief Customer Officer
Andrew BothwellChief Revenue Officer
Mike ChapinChief Legal Officer & VP of Finance
Rachel HughesVP of Product

Funding History

2015-09
Seed$2.5M

Boldstart Ventures, Social Leverage

2016-09
Series A$10M

Canaan Partners

2018-06
Series B$26M

Redpoint Ventures

2019-01
Series C$35M

Battery Ventures

2019-05
Series D$40M

Tiger Global Management

2019-12
Series E$60M

Coatue

2023-05
New financing; Series E in Tracxn$60M

Battery Ventures, Redpoint Ventures

2025-08
Series B$30M

Norwest

Recent News

2026-03-10product
Kustomer Launches Standalone Enterprise AI Platform to Modernize Existing Helpdesks

Kustomer unveiled Kustomer AI, a standalone enterprise intelligence layer for existing customer-experience systems. It initially integrates with Zendesk without requiring migration and is available to enterprise customers.

2026-02-08partnership
February 2026 Releases

Kustomer announced Nova-powered translation improvements, AI resolution analytics, link previews, and subscription-management updates. The release also introduced an Ordergroove integration that lets agents cancel, pause, or expedite subscriptions directly from Kustomer.

2025-12-19product
Kustomer’s 2025 Year in Review

Kustomer reported more than 100 platform releases during 2025, highlighting a strengthened data model, broader integrations for AI context, and more intelligent workflows. The review featured AI for Reps, Data Explorer, and AI Assistants.

2025-12-04product
Kustomer Introduces AI Assistants to Effortlessly Build and Evolve Complex CX Logic

Kustomer launched its AI automation assistant in general availability and its AI observability assistant in early access. The tools analyze workflows and AI-agent traces, detect conflicts and root causes, and recommend improvements.

2025-11-19product
November 2025 releases

Kustomer made Data Explorer broadly available, enabling natural-language analysis of customer data with explanations and actionable recommendations. The release also expanded AI automation analysis, permissions, search, and AI controls.

2025-10-14product
Introducing the Next Evolution of AI-Native CX

Kustomer introduced a new suite of AI Assistants spanning AI-agent teams, knowledge bases, workflows, and search. The company positioned the assistants as embedded intelligence designed to help teams scale CX while preserving control, auditability, and brand consistency.

2025-10partnership
Introducing the Kustomer MCP Server

Kustomer launched an MCP Server that securely connects Kustomer data with large language models such as Claude and ChatGPT. The integration provides structured and monitored access for AI systems.

2025-08-07funding
Meta Acquired His Company for $1 Billion, and Then Changed Its Mind. Now, He’s Charting a New Path

Inc. reported that Kustomer raised a $30 million Series B after being spun out of Meta. Norwest led the round, with continued participation from Battery Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Boldstart Ventures, as Kustomer shifted toward an AI-centric strategy.

Active Roles

8
US - New York, NY/Engineering/9d ago
US - New York, NY/Engineering/15d ago
US - New York, NY/Engineering/21d ago
US - Remote/Operations/21d ago
US - New York, NY/Product/34d ago
US - New York, NY/Sales/34d ago
US - New York, NY/Engineering/57d ago
US - New York, NY/Sales/160d ago

Business Model

Kustomer monetizes its SaaS customer-service platform through flexible seat-based and usage-based pricing plans. Its revenue model is therefore primarily recurring software subscriptions, with pricing tailored to team size and platform usage.

Products

Kustomer Customer Service CRM and omnichannel support platformKustomer Concierge, a customer-facing autonomous AI agentKustomer Architect, for building and optimizing customized AI workflows and agentsKustomer AI, a standalone enterprise AI platform for CX systems

Customers

MeUndiesAplazoCoterie BabyCarawayLulusSmallsNathan JamesJerome's FurnitureHopperBulletproofEverlaneYummyDaily HarvestTerra KaffeAlex and AniUNTUCKitMakesyPriority BicyclesHexCladLoadUpRingGlovoGlossierSweetgreenRent the RunwayAwaySliceStella & Dot

Tech Stack

Cloud-based SaaSEnterprise-grade large language models (LLMs)Natural language processing (NLP)Machine learning (ML)Robust APIs and third-party integrationsOmnichannel customer-service platform

Competitors

Zendesk
Freshdesk
Intercom
Gorgias
Salesforce Service Cloud

Key Investors

Norwest Venture Partners; Battery Ventures; Redpoint Ventures; Boldstart Ventures; Canaan Partners; Cisco Investments