OneText Hashnode · Jul 2026
Announced named API keys per integration, key rotation/deletion, and a cleaner admin model for managing credentials.
Frictionless payments via SMS
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
OneText is a San Francisco-based, privately held ecommerce commerce-tech company founded in 2021 that helps merchants turn SMS conversations into purchases, upsells, and repeat orders through text-to-buy, shopper-specific recommendations, and two-way texting.
Primary product
Text-to-buy SMS commerce platform with AI Smart Replies, concierge support, cart recovery, upsells, and payment capture
Founded
2021
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Ecommerce SMS / conversational commerce
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$5M
Latest round
Seed VC - III · Jul 2025
Latest amount
$4.5M
Jul 2025 · Y Combinator
Apr 2023
Jan 2023 · Y Combinator
Jan 2023
Leadership
Founder and CEO
CTO and Co-Founder
Head of Customer Success
Investors
Public evidence points to a small, highly product-focused team that ships frequent UI/AI updates, emphasizes customer support and founder-level onboarding, and appears distributed across multiple countries; no explicit employee-benefits page was found.
Pricing
Sales-led, quote-based subscription with monthly platform fees plus per-SMS, per-MMS, and per-transaction charges
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M (third-party estimate around $2.3M annual revenue)
Estimated monthly visits
113.2K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
OneText Hashnode · Jul 2026
Announced named API keys per integration, key rotation/deletion, and a cleaner admin model for managing credentials.
Telnyx · Apr 2026
Customer-story profile saying OneText scaled messaging throughput dramatically after switching providers and that the company won larger enterprise deals and improved customer revenue with its platform.
OneText blog · Sep 2025
Major product update covering compliance settings, campaign wizard improvements, popup editor enhancements, ROI reporting, and new controls for sender numbers, refills, and flow branching.
TechCrunch · Jul 2025
Announced a $4.5M seed round backed by Khosla Ventures, Coatue, Citi Ventures, Y Combinator, Good Friends, and Matt Bellamy; also described customer traction and the company's text-to-buy thesis.
OneText blog · Jan 2025
Product and UX updates including a redesigned flow builder, handlebar editor, multi-image messaging, one-click popup publishing, AI intent handling, and other merchant controls.