Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders

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    "title": "Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders",
    "author": "Marina Temkin",
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    "excerpt": "Publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by serial entrepreneur Elias Torres. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2023, Agency had raised $32 million from investors including Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, and Felicis prior to the acquisition. As part of the deal, Torres (pictured left) will join Klaviyo as chief product officer (CPO), leading Agency’s 25-person team to accelerate the development and expansion of Klaviyo’s AI agents: Composer, which builds marketing campaigns, and Customer Agent, which handles post-sale support like returns and order tracking “Elias and the team built a great product with Agency,” Klaviyo co-founder and CEO Andrew Bialecki (pictured right) told TechCrunch. “We’re going to take that and combine it with our agent products and try to bring that to 200,000 businesses - and hopefully to millions more over the next couple of years.” For Torres, joining Klaviyo brings his career full circle. He is no stranger to M&A exits, having co-founded Performable (acquired by HubSpot in 2011) and later Drift, where he served as CTO for eight years until its $1.2 billion sale to Vista Equity in 2021. Back in 2010 at Performable, Torres hired Bialecki, who had graduated from Harvard two years earlier, as one of that startup’s first...",
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