Proudly bootstrapped by people who care

Learn more about the humans at Helo and why we’re running this business a little differently.

Meet the humans of Helo

We're a small team of email nerds with decades of experience in email infrastructure, deliverability, and developer tools — and potentially a bit of an obsession with all of the above.

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Jimmy

United States

Weird coffee person and all around computer nerd. Worked on the Postmark backend and in the payments industry before that.

Ryan

Canada

Also spent years as a backend developer at Postmark (yes, another one). Loves camping, mountains, and his dog—when he behaves.

Rob

United States

Worked in Marketing and Growth at—you guessed it—Postmark. Enjoys preparing, eating, and talking about great food.

Bettina

Germany

Previously Head of Product at Postmark, plus nerded out about email at Litmus and Beefree. Loves horses, squirrels, lakes, and mountains.

Jens

Japan

Previously developer at... yep, Postmark. Likes music, skateboards, and travel.

Other lovely humans

From all over

Just like Joe Cocker, we get by with a little help from our friends (who prefer not to be in the spotlight.) You know who you are. We love ya. <3

Does the world need another email provider?

Our investors.

Yup.

Sure, there are plenty of other email providers out there. But we think there’s always space for another really good service at a really good price (that’s really good at serving those of you with a platform use case).

Nope.

We have no investors to impress, no VC partners who expect to 10x their investment, and no exit plan. 

Helo is bootstrapped and intends to stay that way. That means our only obligation is to you, the people who actually use our product. 

When we tell others in tech that we're not building toward an exit but want to create a calm, reliable, independent company that's still around 5, 10, twenty years from now, they tend to look at us like we're a little nuts. And maybe we are.

We'd love to hear from you

Do you want to learn more about Helo? Have a question about why we’re running this business the way we do? Just want to say hi (or “helo”)? We can’t wait to hear from you.

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