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Loops

loops.so

Loops provides SaaS teams one platform for marketing, lifecycle, and transactional email.

HQWashington, District of Columbia, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 4d ago
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About

Loops builds an email platform for SaaS and software companies, combining marketing, lifecycle, and transactional email in one product. Its differentiation includes a block-based email editor, transactional-email deliverability, and pre-built workflows designed to improve revenue and user engagement.

Market

Loops competes in the SaaS email marketing and customer-communications market, covering marketing, lifecycle/product, and transactional messaging. It positions itself as a simple, developer-friendly unified platform for SaaS companies, differentiating through a Notion-style editor, pre-built SaaS workflows, API and integrations, and a focus on transactional deliverability rather than the broader complexity of large customer-engagement suites.

Target Customers

Loops primarily targets software and SaaS startups and small-to-growing SaaS teams that need marketing, lifecycle/product, and transactional email in one platform. Likely users and buyers include technical founders, developers, and product or growth-marketing teams responsible for customer communications.

At a Glance

Problem

SaaS companies need to send product, marketing, lifecycle, and transactional email, but email is difficult to design reliably across major clients and often requires stitching together multiple tools and workflows. The pain is especially consequential for growth teams because email performance is connected to upgrades, churn reduction, and revenue rather than being merely a communications function.

The primary use case is connecting Loops to a SaaS application so teams can trigger and measure the emails that move users from waitlist or onboarding through activation, conversion, retention, and expansion. Loops positions this as a way to make email a direct growth lever while avoiding the complexity and bloat of heavier systems.

Product / Service

Loops is an email marketing software platform for SaaS teams that combines product, marketing, lifecycle, and transactional email in one product. Companies connect it to their application, create emails using designs intended to work across major email clients, and track which messages contribute to business outcomes such as upgrades and reduced churn.

The benefit is a simpler, unified alternative to managing separate systems for different types of email. Loops emphasizes ease of use and focused functionality, allowing a growth or product team to operate email from a single platform from an early waitlist through a company’s later stages.

Market

Loops competes in the SaaS email marketing and customer-communications software category, spanning marketing automation, lifecycle messaging, product email, and transactional email. The available research identifies the category and Loops’ positioning but does not name specific competitors, so a reliable competitor list cannot be established from the evidence provided.

The company appears to have meaningful early traction rather than being pre-revenue in the sense of having no customers: its site lists Framer, Linear, Perplexity, Granola, Clerk, Sketch, Reuters, and Conductor as customers, alongside Y Combinator. Loops was founded in 2022, is an active Winter 2022 YC company with a reported team of nine, and announced a $3.2 million funding round led by Craft Ventures; however, the available evidence does not disclose revenue or customer-count figures.

Founders & Leadership

Chris FrantzFounder
Co-Founder and CEO
Adam KaczmarekFounder
Co-Founder and CTO

Funding History

2022-03
Seed$500K

Y Combinator

2023-09
Seed$3.2M

Craft Ventures

Recent News

2026-09-19partnership
Loops integrates with Capitaly for investor update emails

Capitaly publicly listed an integration with Loops on September 19, 2026. The integration allows Capitaly to draft investor-update emails from a company’s activity and send them through Loops after user approval, with recipient lists selectable from current investors, a pipeline, or a custom group.

2026-07-01product_launch
Goals are live in Loops

Loops launched Goals, allowing campaigns to measure conversions such as activation, upgrades, demo bookings, purchases, and retention. The update also refreshed the workflow builder and expanded API coverage for themes, components, and email messages.

2026-05-06partnership
Zapier integration

Loops introduced its Zapier integration for connecting to thousands of applications. The integration supports contact management, event-triggered workflows, transactional email, and triggers based on Loops activity.

2026-01-13product_launch
LLM Translation

Loops added translation in the workflow builder, allowing teams to generate a translated branch for a target language. The release also introduced converging paths so branches can merge back into one workflow.

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Business Model

Loops uses a subscription model based on the number of subscribed contacts rather than email sends. It offers a free tier for up to 1,000 contacts and 4,000 monthly sends; paid plans remove those limits, include transactional sending, and do not charge separately for sends or team seats.

Products

Marketing emailProduct/lifecycle emailTransactional emailNotion-style email block editorPre-built SaaS email loops and integrations

Customers

FramerLinearPerplexityGranolaClerkSketchReutersConductorY Combinator

Tech Stack

REST APIJavaScript SDKTypeScriptThird-party integrations

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