Knak started with a simple idea: Let's make life easier for marketers.

Now hundreds of the world's top brands and tens of thousands of marketers rely on Knak, and we set the standard for email and landing page creation platforms.

Our Story

Built by marketers, designed for everyone.

We were marketers before we were email experts, so we know what teams are looking for.

Most marketers got into Marketing as an outlet for their creativity. But between needing to know HTML or coordinating with agencies or having to fill in forms to produce assets, creativity increasingly seems like a distant afterthought.

Knak exists to lead the fight for creativity in marketing. To lead the movement against robots coming for Marketers jobs, and to make sure Marketers talents are used for creativity, not for entering data into forms.

Knak at a glance

We're proud of what we've built. Our culture is rooted in our mission: to make email creation simple so great design is within reach for anyone, anywhere.

We're driven by customer success, and we work hard to find innovative ways to deliver happiness, one email at a time.

2015

Year Founded

25M

Dollars in Funding Raised

∞

Sending Platforms Supported

0

Coding Required

1000s

of Users

100K+

Emails Built

The Knak roadmap

Here's the history of Knak, from our first free templates, to the robust Builder and Enterprise platforms we offer today.

2015

Knak is born

Marketo email templates launch.

Marketo landing page templates quickly follow.

2016

Eloqua templates are introduced.

More templates are added for both Marketo and Eloqua.

2017

Our Builder and Enterprise email platforms launch

FEATURES INCLUDE: A drag-and-drop-editor Marketo and Eloqua integrations Brand control Approval groups

Knak becomes a full time project

Our first team members are hired.

+ EXPAND

2018

Key new features are added.

FEATURES INCLUDE:

Modules

Image library

Advanced user permissions

Editor restrictions

2019

A new user interface is released for our editor

Link review is added.

Editor restrictions become more advanced.

2020

Our new and improved email editor launches

NEW INTEGRATIONS:

Pardot

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Acoustic

Adobe Campaign

SAP Marketing Cloud

NEW FEATURES: Annotated feedback Marketo images The ability to clone a Marketo program directly into Knak The ability to deploy Marketo campaigns directly from Knak

Knak HQ opens in Ottawa

+ EXPAND

2021

Landing pages officially launch

with the ability to create from scratch, or use modules and themes.

NEW INTEGRATIONS:

Responsys

Braze

SendGrid

Sparkpost

Veeva Vault

Knak raises $25M Series A funding from Insight Partners

Knak enters a new stage of growth to meet rising demand for Codeless Campaign Creation

+ EXPAND

2022

Inspiration Centre officially launches

with the ability to edit, re-brand, and get inspiration from real-world emails and landing pages

ENHANCED INTEGRATIONS:

Salesforce Pardot (Marketing Cloud Engagement Platform)

Adobe Experience Manager

NEW FEATURES:

Inspiration Centre

Email Testing

Dark mode

Knak doubles in size and opens new World Headquarters in Ottawa

+ EXPAND

The leadership team

Rod Moshfeghi

Vice President of Product

Rod Moshfeghi

Vice President of Product

Hirbod (or Rod for short) is a seasoned Product Executive with a passion for building a product vision that delivers value for customers. Prior to coming to Knak, Hirbod (or Rod for short) was the Director of Product Management at Hootsuite. Rod is excited to come to Knak to work with the team here and take everything he has learned to help bring Knak to the next level. In his free time, he loves to spend time with his wife and three kids and trains in Muay Thai kick boxing.

Brendan Farnand

Co-Founder & CCO

Brendan Farnand

Co-Founder & CCO

Brendan is a career enterprise marketer who's passionate about making modern marketing accessible to everyone. He has worked at organizations of every size, from startups to global enterprises, and is experienced with the full spectrum of marketing operations, including analysis, go-to-market strategy, asset creation, sales enablement, and demand generation. He also loves dad jokes, even though his kids do not.

Patrick Proulx

Co-Founder & CTO

Patrick Proulx

Co-Founder & CTO

Patrick loves working for Knak. Whether he's working to develop a great new feature, improve the site's performance, or enhance usability, he's always pushing the envelope to create the best possible platform for Knak's clients. Patrick is glad to be part of a team that's passionate about their work, and he's happy to be creating a product that's fun to use and meets a real need for Marketers.

Tracy Harris

Vice President of Marketing

Tracy Harris

Vice President of Marketing

Tracy is a passionate marketer with over 20 years of experience in B2B Marketing. Working at companies such as Entrust, Cognos, IBM and Trend Marketing, Tracy has experience in analytics, branding, product marketing, campaigns, demand generation, partner marketing and sales enablement. In her spare time, Tracy enjoys time outdoors with her family and three dogs at the lake in the summer and hitting the slopes and watching hockey during winter.

Pierce Ujjainwalla

Co-Founder & CEO

Pierce Ujjainwalla

Co-Founder & CEO

Pierce is a career marketer who has lived in the marketing trenches at companies like IBM, SAP, NVIDIA, and Marketo. He launched Knak in 2015 as a platform designed to help Marketers simplify email creation. He is also the founder of Revenue Pulse, a marketing operations consultancy.

Tom Belhumeur

Vice President of Sales

Tom Belhumeur

Vice President of Sales

Tom is an entrepreneurial sales leader and passionate veteran of the Martech and Adtech space. He has spent the past 10 years helping marketers achieve their goals through technology by building and coaching sales teams to lead with value and always put customer needs at the center of the conversation. When he's not working to bring new products to market you can find him living outside of Boston with his wife and two kids, building sand castles, skiing, hiking and crushing episodes of Bluey.

Christopher Chan

Head of Finance

Christopher Chan

Head of Finance

Chris joins the Knak team after working at Ottawa-based accounting firm Logan Katz. Chris graduated with a Commerce degree with a specialization in Accounting from the University of Ottawa and got his CPA designation in 2019. When he's not crunching numbers, Chris enjoys hiking, rock climbing, and white water kayaking.

Board of Advisors

Our Board of Advisors is a group of men and women who play an official mentorship role at Knak. They are some of the most innovative, pioneering leaders in the industry, and we're so happy to have them in our corner.

Leah MacMillan

Chief Marketing Officer,
Trend Micro

Robert Ashe

Advisory Board Member,
Independent Advisor

Pascal St. Jean

President,
3iQ

Mychelle Mollot

Chief Marketing Officer,
Solace

Board of Directors

In November of 2021, Knak raised a $25 million in Series A funding to accelerate growth and meet rising demand for codeless campaign creation led by global private equity and venture capital firm, Insight Partners. Philine Huizing, Principal at Insight partners who focuses on both high growth and mature software businesses, joins us as our first member of our Board of Directors.

Philine has spent time working closely with portfolio executives on GTM strategy, product strategy, and M&A. Prior to Insight, she worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company's New York Office. Philine graduated from MIT in 2014 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in product design and a minor in Management Science.

Words we live by

Our values are part of who we are, what we stand for, and how we act. At Knak, we're committed to living out these values every day and doing what's right for our customers, partners, and employees.

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Knak started with a simple idea: Let's make life easier for marketers.

Built by marketers, designed for everyone.

Knak at a glance

2015

25M

∞

0

1000s

100K+

The Knak roadmap

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

The leadership team

Rod Moshfeghi

Rod Moshfeghi

Brendan Farnand

Brendan Farnand

Patrick Proulx

Patrick Proulx

Tracy Harris

Tracy Harris

Pierce Ujjainwalla

Pierce Ujjainwalla

Tom Belhumeur

Tom Belhumeur

Christopher Chan

Christopher Chan

Board of Advisors

Leah MacMillan

Robert Ashe

Pascal St. Jean

Mychelle Mollot

Leah MacMillan

Robert Ashe

Pascal St. Jean

Mychelle Mollot

Board of Directors

Words we live by

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