OneText
YC W23San Francisco, US · Founded 2021 · 6 employees · 8 known investors
OneText provides SMS marketing software with text-to-buy functionality, AI-powered product recommendations, and live concierge support for ecommerce brands. The platform integrates with major ecommerce and marketing platforms to drive incremental revenue through conversational messaging and direct purchase capabilities.
E-commerceFintechMarketing TechSaaSPaymentsConsumerB2BUnited States of AmericaAmerica / CanadaFully Remote
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W23)
OneText was founded in 2021 by Jonathan Fudem and Daniel Brain.
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Jonathan Fudemin𝕏Founder and CEOJonathan Fudem worked in product at PayPal Checkout and is building payment solutions via SMS at OneText.
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Daniel Brainin𝕏CTO / Co-Founder / Code MonkeyFounder of OneText, a platform providing SMS marketing software with AI-powered recommendations and text-to-buy capabilities for ecommerce brands.
Investors · 8
Sterling Road✓ verifiedSan Francisco · $50K – $150K
Y Combinator✓ verifiedSan Francisco · $500K
Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M
Good FriendsSan Francisco · $250K – $1Mvia Alexandra Cowie · inferred
Lobster CapitalSan Francisco
Citi VenturesreportedNew York
Khosla VenturesreportedMenlo Park · $5K – $50M
Also in the syndicate · 1
Khosla
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$4.5M disclosed across 1 round · 2025
- $4.5MSeedJul 2025 · 4 sources
Y Combinator (lead), Khosla
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
The YC application· Winter 2023 batch
What they told YC
- What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
- The founders are building a text-to-buy product for direct-to-consumer brands that lets shoppers complete purchases by replying to a text, using a stored phone number tied to a card on file. They report it drives 10X the sales of conventional SMS marketing by combining automation, messaging, and payments.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
Competitors · 3
by search overlap
TextUs11 shared keywordsTextUs is an SMS marketing platform that enables go-to-market teams (sales, marketing, recruiting, customer success) to send and receive text messages at scale with CRM/ATS integrations and TCPA compliance built-in.
Postscript8 shared keywordsPostscript helps ecommerce brands design and operate SMS marketing programs that engage customers and drive revenue. The company specializes in SMS marketing software with a focus on customer-first product design and ethical practices.
Tone7 shared keywordsAttentive provides a multi-channel customer engagement platform that includes email, SMS, RCS, push notifications, and AI-powered lifecycle orchestration for direct-to-consumer brands. The company serves e-commerce and retail businesses seeking identity resolution and customer communication automation.
Companies competing with OneText for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
Frequently asked questions
- What does OneText do?
- OneText provides SMS marketing software with text-to-buy functionality, AI-powered product recommendations, and live concierge support for ecommerce brands. The platform integrates with major ecommerce and marketing platforms to drive incremental revenue through conversational messaging and direct purchase capabilities.
- Who founded OneText?
- OneText was founded by Jonathan Fudem, Daniel Brain in 2021.
- Who are OneText's investors?
- OneText's investors include Sterling Road, Y Combinator, Coatue Management, Good Friends, Lobster Capital, Citi Ventures, Khosla Ventures.
- How much funding has OneText raised?
- OneText has disclosed $4.5M raised across 1 round.
- Where is OneText headquartered?
- OneText is headquartered in San Francisco, US.