Our story
Mixmax’s mission is to do the impossible with email. We believe everything you do today on the web should be possible in any email. This includes scheduling meetings, completing surveys, making purchases, playing games, and even interacting with apps.
We started Mixmax to take on the challenge of upgrading email to the 21st century. In the last decade, we saw the web mature at an incredible pace. Video-conferencing, “street view” on maps, and collaborative document editing are all examples of amazing advances that are standard on the web. And yet, email remains static, plain, and unproductive. Despite its ubiquity and longevity, email is stuck in 1999.
After building communications and authoring products at companies including Apple, Google, and Skype, our team saw a huge opportunity to build a world where email maximizes both your productivity and expressiveness.
Our team
Olof Mathé
Co-founder and CEO
@olofster
Olof led the team that built Inkling Habitat, now adopted by the world’s largest publishers. Prior, he was an entrepreneur and worked at Skype and McKinsey. Olof grew up in Sweden and finished his engineering degree in France. He created Art Hack Day, a global computer arts hackathon.
Chanpory Rith
Co-founder and Designer
@chanpory
Chanpory designed Gmail for iOS & mobile web at Google. He recently led design for Inkling Habitat. Prior, he was a blogging entrepreneur and worked at Dubberly Design Office and MetaDesign. Chanpory grew up in West Oakland, and has an incredible collection of mid-century modern furniture and vintage Crisco cans.
Brad Vogel
Co-founder and Engineer
@bradvogel
Brad led the web engineering team at Inkling. Prior, he built the WebOS communications suite at Palm and was a core member of the Mac OS X team at Apple. He’s also a pilot, and if you’re lucky he’ll take you for a flight over San Francisco Bay.
Jeff Wear
Software Engineer
@wear_here
Jeff is a full-stack Web and iOS developer with a BS and an MS in HCI from Stanford. He’s the author of the open source iOS integration testing framework Subliminal. He uses good code and good coffee to build great user experiences.
Jennifer Skene
Director of Operations
@jenskene
Jen used to build ebooks from scratch at Inkling. Prior, she was a lecturer at Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in Integrative Biology. On the weekends, you can find her running in the Oakland hills and sewing her own clothes.
Spencer Brown
Software Engineer
@nworbrecneps
Spencer pioneered hacker culture at Purdue by leading BoilerMake and Purdue Hackers. On the weekends, you'll find him spinning🔥on a set of turntables or trying the espresso at a new coffee shop.
Chuy Martinez
Software Engineer
Chuy (nickname for “Jesus”) joins us from Hermosillo, Mexico. He’s a full-stack engineer passionate about AI and Open Source. He loves seafood, especially raw scallops, and prefers his lemonade with a pinch of salt, no sugar. His cat, Benancio, is a badass hunter.
Trey Tacon
Software Engineer
@ttacon
Trey is a full-stack engineer with a passion for Go (the language, not the game:) who built the next generation of location software at Yext. He loves crossfit, and when he’s not trying out a new regimen he’ll entertain you with stories from his upbringing in the UK and the deep South.
Cameron Price-Austin
Software Engineer
@pricj004
Cameron is a full-stack engineer based in Adelaide, South Australia. He previously led engineering at Vinomofo, one of Australia's largest startups. He loves reading, and the occasional game of knifey-spooney.
Eric Elias
Director of Sales
@ericjelias
Eric has an entrepreneurial background and has worked in sales, product, and operations roles. His foundations were cemented in finance and operations at GE. For kicks, he is taking woodworking classes and building furniture.
Jeremy Gillespie
Director of User Growth
Jeremy is a growth-oriented marketing geek, with a passion for performance marketing and self-serve acquisition. When not working, you can find him sipping espresso and trying new restaurants in the Bay Area.
LaTia Cage
Product Specialist
LaTia joins us from Las Vegas, NV. Prior to becoming a champion for Mixmax users, LaTia provided administrative assistance to c-level executives and teams both large and small. On the weekends, you can catch her hanging at the park with her kiddos or pinning her latest obsessions on Pinterest.
Jabari Allen
Product Specialist
Jabari is a recent grad from Truman State with a BS in Biology and a BS in Psychology. In his free time, you can find him working on Raspberry Pi projects, volunteering with the youth-run nonprofit Greening Forward, and attending sustainable building workshops in his home state of Missouri.
Our investors
Michael Dearing
Founder, Harrison Metal
Angel investor in Heroku, PagerDuty, Admob. Stanford DSchool professor.
Ann Miura Ko
Managing Partner, Floodgate
Seed investor in Lyft, TaskRabbit, Modcloth.
Ram Shriram
Founder, Sherpalo
Investor in Google, Mint, Zazzle. Formerly member Netscape Exec team.
Mike Maples
Managing Partner, Floodgate
Investor in Twitter, Weebly, Twitch.
Joshua Baer
Founder of 3 email companies
Fellow at ReturnPath.
Eric Ries
Author of the Lean Startup
Eric Wahlforss
CTO Soundcloud
Sangeeta Narayan
Executive Recruiter
First recruiter at Square, Twitter, Coursera.
Jonathan Abrams
Founder & CEO of Nuzzel
Formerly software engineer at Netscape.
Ash Fontana
Head of fundraising, AngelList
Co-founder of Topguest.
Alexander Ljung
CEO Soundcloud
Gary Levitt
Founder of Madmimi
Matt MacInnis
Founder & CEO of Inkling
Henrik Berggren
Product at Dropbox
Formerly founder & CEO of Readmill.
Chris Beard
CEO at Mozilla
Formerly EIR at Greylock.