Pixis Scores $100 Million Led by Softbank Vision Fund 2

<p><strong>BURLINGAME<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Pixis &lpar;formerly known as Pyxis One&rpar;&comma; a provider of contextual codeless AI infrastructure for marketing optimization&comma; has secured &dollar;100 million in Series C funding&period; Pixis will use funds to help the company rapidly scale its AI platforms and plugins&comma; as well as accelerate expansions across North America&comma; Europe&comma; and APAC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Series C round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2&comma; with participation from new investor General Atlantic&comma; a leading global growth equity firm&period; Existing investors Celesta Capital&comma; Premji Invest&comma; and Chiratae Ventures also participated in the round&period; With the close of its US &dollar;17 million Series B round just four months prior&comma; Pixis has raised a total of &dollar;124 million to date since its founding in 2018&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pixis’ AI infrastructure&comma; which leverages self-evolving neural networks&comma; is providing immense value to customers through its codeless AI plugin&comma; enabling AI-powered decision-making for every aspect of marketing&period; Pixis recently launched its codeless AI plugin after closing Series B&comma; with the belief that a powerful codeless AI infrastructure will help safeguard marketers against inevitable developments that will change the current marketing ecosystem&period; Looking ahead&comma; Pixis aims to add over 200 customizable self-evolving AI models to the infrastructure it offers and has already introduced close to four dozen AI models since its last funding&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The web going cookieless&comma; in conjunction with decreasing access to the depth of data that was previously available&comma; is a worrisome situation for marketers&period; In this environment&comma; it is self-evolving neural networks that are proving to be invaluable assets in countering the disruptions to the marketing landscape&comma;” explained Shubham A&period; Mishra&comma; co-founder and Global CEO at Pixis&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are excited to partner with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and General Atlantic to make codeless AI infrastructure accessible to every market in the world&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Shantanu Rastogi&comma; Managing Director at General Atlantic&comma; continued&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We believe Pixis is disrupting the marketing space with a self-learning codeless AI infrastructure that serves a mission-critical function in the marketing tech stack&period; The AI plugins and platforms solve key customer problems and are improving business outcomes&period; The Pixis platform demonstrates the power of global entrepreneurship&comma; and we are proud to support the team’s ambitions of continued expansion&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The SoftBank Vision Fund 2 investment in Pixis confirms that in a cookieless world&comma; Artificial Intelligence could be the big differentiating factor for brands&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Marketing is one of the largest spend categories for companies but many of its decisions are still driven by intuition rather than data&comma;” said Priya Saiprasad&comma; Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cts&period;businesswire&period;com&sol;ct&sol;CT&quest;id&equals;smartlink&amp&semi;url&equals;http&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fpixis&period;ai&percnt;2F&amp&semi;esheet&equals;52565697&amp&semi;newsitemid&equals;20220120005317&amp&semi;lan&equals;en-US&amp&semi;anchor&equals;Pixis&amp&semi;index&equals;2&amp&semi;md5&equals;810bf455e20a51710a948ee9b8a8996c" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" shape&equals;"rect">Pixis<&sol;a> has developed an end-to-end codeless AI infrastructure that equips teams with cutting-edge data science to automate and improve core processes&comma; from budget allocation to real-time campaign optimization and reporting&period; We are excited to partner with Shubham and the team to support their mission to make marketing data-backed&comma; intelligent&comma; agile&comma; and effortlessly scalable in the new cookie-less world&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since its inception&comma; the company says it has grown by 600&percnt;&period; Pixis currently has over 100 customers using its AI products across the world&period; Customers using the Pixis AI infrastructure have witnessed a 20&percnt; decrease in acquisition costs on average&comma; in addition to at least 300 hours of manual work saved per month&period; The clinching factor for customers is definitely the prospect of activating AI in 8 seconds without having to write a single line of code&period;<b><&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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