Beefree

Beefree is the business unit of the Growens group that operates in the content design field. It offers a drag-and-drop HTML editor that allows to speed up email production and effortlessly export emails to any sending platform with a few clicks.

San Francisco, USA

Headquarters

2014

Foundation

98

Employees

Beefree provides no-code design tools that empower everyone to quickly create content that resonates. Beefree’s visual builders are used to design emails, landing pages, one-page sites, and more. They deliver fantastic design flexibility and a great user experience, combining granular control on design elements with handy features like editing content directly in mobile view.

Beefree is building on its vision to help democratize content design, with millions of monthly users in over 20 languages and from over 220 countries. Beefree’s design tools are available online at beefree.io and embedded in over 600 SaaS applications.

Beefree is a product of BEE Content Design Inc., a Growens company.

Beefree SDK KPIs

  • $ 10.2 M ARR
  • +39.5% ARR growth
  • 121% Net Revenue Retention
  • $ 140,547 Lifetime value (LTV)
  • 675 Customer base
  • 20.5 months – Payback period

Data refer to September 2024

Beefree App KPIs

  • $ 5 M ARR
  • +14.3% ARR growth
  • 82% Net Revenue Retention
  • $1,119 Lifetime value (LTV)
  • 8,881 Customer base
  • 13.3 months – Payback period

Overall KPIs

  • 80% Gross margin
  • -24.9% EBITDA margin
  •  99.5% Recurring revenue
  • 1,167,648 free users
  • NPS: 70

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Beefree History

2014

Beefree is launched as a free tool at beefree.io by the MailUp team, and collects 20,000 users in 24 hrs.

2015

BEE Plugin (now Beefree SDK) is launched as an embeddable email editor for SaaS applications.

2016

The first version of Beefree is launched on Feb 22, 2016. A very limited MVP, but people love it right away.

2017

Beefree Team & Agency plans: collaboration, multi-user support, user roles, brands.

2018

Introducing connectors for Beefree. Mailchimp is the first, followed by many others (HubSpot, Klaviyo, SendInBlue, ActiveCampaign, and more).

2019

Save & re-use content with Save Rows: speed is always “core” at Beefree. Plus, new UX with v3.

2020

Beefree launches its Designer Program (hundreds of new templates added to the template catalog) and Landing Page Builder.

2021

Beefree hits 10,000+ customers and introduces its PopUp Builder.

2022

Beefree hits $10 million ARR (annual recurring revenues).

2023

Time for a refreshed image: BEE Pro becomes Beefree, and BEE Plugin becomes Beefree SDK

2024

Beefree acquires Really Good Emails and shortens the distance between inspiration and email creation

Massimo Arrigoni

CEO

LinkedIn profile

SaaS scale-up CEO with two decades of experience in product management. A practitioner of product-led growth for many years, and a believer in the Jobs To Be Done approach to understanding why customers buy products or services. Involved in Beefree’s startup-within-a-larger-corp since the beginning, when the project took off and grew to the point of requiring a full-time CEO, Massimo stepped down from his Head of Product role at the group level, and was happy to take on this role.

Prior to MailUp, Massimo co-founded and was CEO for many years at Early Impact, which developed a small business shopping cart system – ProductCart – and a recurring billing system – SubscriptionBridge. Before that, Massimo had product management roles in other software companies.

LinkedIn profile

Life at Beefree

Working at Beefree means joining a challenging yet empowering scale-up environment. We live to radically improve how business professionals create beautiful, high-performing content that drives business impact.

Spread across Italy and the US, our team thrives in a unique and exciting blended culture, combining the best of both worlds. We are a remote-first company where autonomy, trust, and self-organization go hand in hand with collaboration, radical transparency, and continuous feedback. 

We value coming together for amazing retreats to build those meaningful relationships that fuel our everyday success. And we have fun while doing it.

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