Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Levitate is a Raleigh-based relationship-marketing company that combines AI-powered communications software with human strategy and customer-success support. Its platform helps relationship-driven small and midsize businesses consistently communicate with clients, prospects, donors, volunteers, and referral sources.
Primary product
Levitate Happiness Platform: relationship marketing software for personalized email, social media, text messaging, automated campaigns, reviews, surveys, meeting scheduling, websites/blogs, contact intelligence, and AI-assisted outreach.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
2409 Crabtree Blvd, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604, United States
Team size
200-300
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Relationship marketing, CRM, marketing automation, and AI-enabled communications software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Growth-stage / late-stage venture-backed private company
Total raised
$71M
Latest round
Growth round · Mar 2026
Latest amount
$16M
Mar 2026 · Harbert Growth Partners
Aug 2024 · Bull City Venture Partners
Apr 2023 · Bull City Venture Partners
Jul 2020
Leadership
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Grant Kitching
Chief Revenue Officer
Vice President of Marketing
Vice President of Customer Success
Vice President of Sales
Benjamin Pope
Senior Director of AI Solutions
Nancy Slane
Vice President of Product Experience
Levitate emphasizes authentic human relationships, customer success, practical AI, and a combination of automation with human judgment. Public materials describe a Service-as-Software model rather than software-only self-service, with continued investment in customer-facing teams.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Public compensation signals include approximately $56,791 annualized for Customer Implementation Coordinator, $57,028 for Product Support Specialist, and $97,651 for Account Executive. Equity, bonus structure, and visa-specific compensation details were not publicly verified.
Benefits
Pricing
Custom / sales-led pricing; public sources indicate demo-based purchasing and do not provide a verified standard price list.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $5M-$15M annually; Exa’s company profile estimates $9.8M, but private-company revenue is not publicly audited.
Estimated monthly visits
171.6K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Axios Raleigh · Mar 2026
Axios reported plans to hire more than 100 employees, expand the Raleigh workforce toward approximately 300, and build offices in Toronto and Wilmington. Jesse Lipson also described a path toward more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue.
Levitate official blog · Mar 2026
Levitate announced a national nonprofit partnership with Meals on Wheels America. The company said it serves nearly 1,000 nonprofit clients and would provide member pricing, support, and co-branded content.
Levitate / PR Newswire · Mar 2026
Levitate announced a $16 million growth round led by Harbert Growth Partners, with Bull City Venture Partners and Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures participating. The company said total capital raised reached $71 million and that the money would fund AI development and expansion of customer-success and sales teams.
Levitate / PR Newswire · Aug 2024
Levitate announced a $15 million Series D, reportedly led by Bull City Venture Partners with participation from Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures and another investor. The funding supported product development and expansion of the relationship-marketing platform.
Levitate / PR Newswire · Apr 2023
Levitate announced a $14 million Series C led by Bull City Venture Partners. The company said the round brought cumulative fundraising to $40 million and included institutional investors, more than 60 entrepreneurs, and AI-enabled product expansion.
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