With a high-margin AI platform now joining its ecosystem, Banzai is transforming from a marketing technology company into a full-stack AI-powered revenue engine — and Q1 results show the foundation is getting stronger.
On July 2, 2026, BNZI officially completed its acquisition of ConnectAndSell, an AI-powered sales acceleration platform that brings enterprise-grade technology, premium customers, and a powerful new revenue stream into the company’s expanding AI ecosystem.
The deal adds approximately $14.7 million in annual revenue, an impressive 86% gross margin business, and a platform already serving roughly 250 B2B organizations, including industry giants such as Intuit, RingCentral, Truckstop, and SAP.
This acquisition is about far more than simply adding revenue — it represents a major evolution in Banzai’s mission to become an end-to-end AI-powered growth platform.
While BNZI has built its foundation around helping businesses attract, engage, and measure customers, ConnectAndSell extends that capability directly into the sales conversion process.
The platform enables millions of live customer conversations annually, helping sales teams connect with qualified decision-makers faster while improving productivity through AI-driven intelligence.
Together, Banzai and ConnectAndSell are creating a broader revenue technology suite designed to support businesses from initial customer engagement all the way through closing deals.
Banzai acquired ConnectAndSell for approximately $13.2 million, representing a purchase price below 1.0x FY2025 revenue, while gaining a business with enterprise customers, strong margins, and significant expansion opportunities.
Management believes the combination creates meaningful cross-selling opportunities across both customer bases while unlocking additional cost synergies expected to contribute to profitability and cash flow improvements beginning in future periods.
The timing of this acquisition also comes as Banzai continues strengthening its financial foundation.
The combination of AI-driven marketing technology, sales acceleration capabilities, enterprise customers, and high-margin software economics places BNZI directly in the middle of one of the biggest technology shifts happening today: businesses racing to adopt AI solutions that improve revenue generation, customer acquisition, and sales productivity.
BNZI is checking multiple boxes that growth investors actively seek:
One of the most compelling—and often overlooked—signals in emerging growth stories is who is already buying the product. In BNZI’s case, the customer roster reads like a who’s who of global enterprise.
Major organizations such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and New York Life Insurance Company are actively using Banzai’s AI-powered platforms, alongside brands like Globe Life, Nextiva, Sprinklr, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Thinkific.
This level of adoption signals something critical: BNZI’s technology is not experimental—it’s enterprise-ready and delivering value at scale.
For a small-cap company, this kind of validation dramatically reduces perceived execution risk while increasing its credibility in a crowded MarTech landscape.
Customer Momentum: Massive Adoption Across 150,000+ Businesses
BNZI’s reach is expanding at an aggressive pace, now serving over 150,000 customers across a diverse mix of industries and company sizes.
Customer feedback trends indicate strong satisfaction and retention, reinforcing the company’s ARR expansion and recurring revenue durability. This broad adoption base also creates a powerful network effect, where cross-selling and upselling become increasingly efficient.
BNZI’s differentiation lies in its end-to-end AI-powered marketing and sales ecosystem, designed to deliver measurable results:
Rather than retrofitting AI into legacy systems, BNZI has built its platform around conversion, engagement, and revenue impact—making it highly relevant in a results-driven enterprise environment.
High growth often comes at the expense of financial stability—but BNZI is showing signs of balance:
Institutional backing further supports its dual-track strategy: accelerated expansion + financial optimization.
Investor confidence is beginning to align with BNZI’s operational progress.
This kind of upward revision cycle often signals early-stage institutional accumulation, especially in small-cap growth names with strong narratives.
Banzai develops essential marketing solutions for companies that want to grow faster, offering seamless integrations that increase customer value out of the box.
The company is consolidating mission-critical, sub-scale MarTech products within three key themes: Acquisition, Engagement, and Analytics, and drive growth with its secret sauce: customer expansion through cross-sales.
Curate is the solution for busy professionals and brands who want to grow their audience effortlessly. Save hours on content creation, enjoy tailored newsletters, and watch your brand flourish.
You don’t need to spend time managing or writing content. Curate automatically builds and sends engaging newsletters that connect with your audience, driving daily or weekly growth.
Curate seamlessly integrates your brand’s voice, colors, and logo, creating a cohesive look and feel that aligns with your unique style.
Choose the news feeds and topics that are most relevant to your audience’s interests. The company’s AI selects only the most compelling articles, custom-built for your audience’s preferences, in a daily or weekly format. Actively promote your newsletter to your ideal audience, ensuring your subscriber list grows every day.
Reach deploys multi-channel outbound campaigns directly to your ICP. Drive action on your event invites, content offers, survey questions - you name it. Because BNZI knows defining your target audience is easy, but reaching them is hard.
With Reach, your ICP is identified from a database of over 379M verified contacts. Need to get your white paper in front of all CMOs in the Northeast? BNZI delivers. Pushing to get senior marketing leaders subscribed to your newsletter? You bet.
Reach takes contact data one step further - handling the outbound campaign for you. Our multi-channel, multi-touch approach inspires action from your ICP without any required outreach from you. Via strategic gifting, email, phone calls, and voicemail drops, our campaigns to your ICP generate results.
Marketers use Reach to run AI-powered Demand Gen campaigns on autopilot. Reach supports 14 campaigns out of the box, and can be tailored to meet your goal.
Demio is built so you can host engaging experiences that turn into analytical insights - making you the most popular marketer in the room.
Current clunky, outdated webinar platforms make webinar ROI impossible. Attendees are bored (if they show up at all).
Use polls, featured actions, and handouts to invite audience participation, identify top engaged attendees, and conduct market research. You can even bring attendees to the stage, so they can be a part of the content, rather than simply observing it.
Increase your webinar attendance through automated, customizable, and branded email notifications.Build relationships among attendees (and hosts) with the power of real-time chats. Hosts can tag specific questions for a dedicated Q&A and use emojis and @ mentions to drive conversation.
You know marketing doesn’t stop at acquisition. Cultivating a successful relationship happens at every milestone you share with your customers. Your job is to make them look good, and we know you take that job seriously.Work with Demio to create quality experiences that make it easy to engage your customers, help them grow, and earn their loyalty.
Track exactly who downloaded your handouts, participated in your polls, clicked your featured actions, and drove conversation in your chat. Use your insights to identify attendees who were most engaged during your session.Learn who was most focused during your session (and who was nodding off), to help you understand which attendees prioritize in your post webinar campaigns.Integrate Demio’s webinar data with your marketing automation platform (or CRM) to drive your engaged attendees to the next step in their buyers journey.
Put your webinars on autopilot with automated and on-demand events. Generate leads in your sleep, while you’re cooking dinner, while you’re walking the dog, while you’re in meetings, (you get it…). Work smarter, not harder.Enhance your data by capturing important information from new leads with custom registration fields. Upon registration, automatically redirect contacts to a custom URL of your choice.Make your brand memorable. Use your logo and color palette in your dedicated and customizable registration page, email notifications, and webinar room.
Boost is your new favorite marketing colleague. Through automated social proof and word of mouth, your registrants become your promoters - amplifying your message, and boosting your results.
No, that's not a typo.
With Boost, your registrants become your promotion ambassadors - amplifying your message via social media and increasing your sign ups.
Customize the promotion content for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Gmail, making it easy for your registrants to endorse your content - with the click of a button.Show the love for your promoters by rewarding them for the signups they bring in. Create as many rewards as you'd like, customize them all, and decide how you'd like the rewards to be received.
Running a partner webinar? Gift a lead list after your partner brings in a certain number of registrants.
Hosting a product launch? Highest promoter gets a shiny new iPad.
Managing a ton of sponsors? Set up a ton of gifts!
Record and Create Powerful Branded Videos Anywhere.
Improve your brand’s storytelling with AI-powered video creation and effortless automation for a polished, professional finish.
Utilize BNZI’s advanced editing platform to transform raw footage into polished, branded videos. We manage everything from color correction to logo placement.
Relax and let BNZI handle the entire production process—from filming to editing. OpenReel One simplifies your workflow, making video creation easier than ever.
Get 10X the scalability for less than the cost of a single resource-maximize efficiency, streamline video creation, and scale your content effortlessly.
Build your own 3D characters like Pixar, animate in just a click & make stunning videos. (No tech or design skills needed).
Build entire explainer videos with gorgeous 2D & 3D characters, backgrounds & icons! Changing actions is as easy as point & click, no complex rigging required.
Automatically hand sketch any text, image or video with our doodle effect! Simply drag & drop it on any layer and choose a hand style!
No technical skills required. Simply point, click & download your new eye-catching moving images!
Rated "Excellent" with Over 100x 5 star reviews
PhotoVibrance makes it easy for everyone to transform static images into moving motion pictures that get attention. Great for driving traffic from social media.
Simply click, download & create incredible sounding videos! Fully licensed and royalty-free for your peace of mind.
Audio doesn‘t mean one style fits all. You need a variety of tracks in different styles & genres to set the mood of each video. That‘s why Twinkle provide‘s you with tracks in a wide array of genres & styles.
You want your videos to keep your viewers engaged into your message, and quality audio does just that...
But royalty-free audio tracks are expensive. Just take a look at sites like Shutterstock, Pond5 or Audiojungle and you‘ll be paying $20 - $50+ per track for a limited use license.
Using unlicensed audio in your video's is against YouTube's terms and is getting many people's YouTube's accounts shutdown. Often without warning.
The all in one audio platform designed for creators & agencies!
Easily manage and play all your videos inside lightning-fast custom ad-free video players.
Vidello’s interactive marketing tools allow you to sell products or capture leads from directly INSIDE the video player!
Use Vidello’s collaboration portal to share projects with your team or clients, to get instant feedback
Banzai’s growth strategy relies on carefully targeted acquisitions to expand its technology stack and customer base:
These acquisitions are not just about revenue—they integrate high-demand products that expand Banzai’s footprint in video marketing, automation, and AI-driven outreach.
The acquisition of Superblocks, an AI platform for SEO-optimized web assets, is expected to create major upsell opportunities across mid-market and enterprise clients.
BNZI has acquired the assets of privately-held Superblocks, an Agentic AI platform for developing and hosting launch-ready SEO-optimized websites. The acquisition closed on November 7, 2025. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Superblocks platform allows marketers to easily create and host websites, landing pages, and simple web applications using conversational AI. Features include AI agent mode, design import from Figma or other visual mockups, and built-in hosting for targeted landing pages, e-commerce stores, blogs, chat apps, and portfolio sites. Using the platform’s AI Agent, users can describe what they want in natural language, and the AI agent then generates the user interface, functionality and deployment setup with modern frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular. Websites built with Superblocks are SEO optimized with built with search-engine best practices.
Superblocks is an online platform for building websites and landing pages using AI that is trusted by 1,000+ founders and creators. Features include AI agent mode, design import from Figma, and built-in hosting for targeted landing pages, e-commerce stores, blogs, chat apps, and portfolio sites.
Using the platform’s AI Agent, users can describe what they want in natural language, and the AI agent then generates the user interface, functionality and deployment setup with modern frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular.
Websites built with Superblocks are SEO optimized with built with search-engine best practices.
Through acquisitions like Superblocks, OpenReel, Vidello, and the pending Act-On Software deal, BNZI is evolving into a full-stack go-to-market platform.
The proposed acquisition of ConnectAndSell adds another powerful dimension:
This move positions BNZI to control a larger share of the entire revenue lifecycle, from customer acquisition to conversion—an extremely valuable strategic position.
BNZI is operating in one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors globally—the $1.5 trillion marketing technology market.
Recent policy developments, including initiatives like the Genesis Mission for AI signed under Donald Trump, signal a broader national push toward AI adoption.
This creates a powerful macro backdrop:
BNZI, already delivering real-world AI applications, is uniquely positioned to capture demand as adoption accelerates.
Banzai International Inc. is rapidly transforming from an emerging MarTech player into a full-scale AI-driven marketing and sales ecosystem. Operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence and revenue generation, the company is not merely riding the AI wave—it is actively shaping how businesses deploy AI to drive measurable outcomes.
With a growing base of over 150,000 customers and enterprise names like RBC, Dell Technologies, and New York Life in its orbit, BNZI is proving its ability to scale across industries while delivering practical, results-oriented AI solutions.
BNZI’s growth strategy goes beyond organic expansion. The company is aggressively assembling a comprehensive AI marketing and sales stack through targeted acquisitions.
Key additions include:
The recently announced acquisition of ConnectAndSell could be a game-changer.
This move extends BNZI’s reach from demand generation all the way to sales conversion, effectively bridging one of the biggest gaps in the MarTech ecosystem.
The strategic implications are significant:
ConnectAndSell is a leading AI Sales Acceleration Platform serving B2B organizations across the healthcare, financial services and technology industries. The company attained revenue of $14.7 million in FY2025 on an unaudited basis.
ConnectAndSell gross margins were 86% in FY2025 on an unaudited basis. Proposed acquisition strengthens Banzai’s Marketing and Sales Software Platform with established revenue-generating business.
Unlike legacy MarTech firms retrofitting AI features, BNZI has built its ecosystem around practical, revenue-driving applications:
This enables marketers to:
BNZI is effectively turning AI into a profit center, not just a productivity tool.
Banzai International is no longer a quiet small-cap—it’s becoming a high-velocity AI growth story with multiple expansion levers firing simultaneously.
From triple-digit revenue growth and elite SaaS margins to an aggressive acquisition strategy that is rapidly building a unified AI platform, BNZI is positioning itself at the forefront of the next evolution in marketing and sales technology.
With a transformative acquisition pipeline, and increasing Wall Street recognition, the company sits at a critical inflection point.
If execution continues at its current pace, BNZI could transition from an under-the-radar opportunity into a widely recognized AI momentum play.
In a market hungry for real AI monetization stories, BNZI is delivering where it matters most—growth, scalability, and revenue impact.
Disclaimer
Hugealerts.com and Tradingwire.com are owned by Sideways Frequencey LLC (“Sideways Frequency”). Press releases, research reports, company profiles and other investor relations materials, publications or presentations, including web content (investor awareness services) released by Hugealerts.com and Tradingwire.com are based on publicly available data obtained from sources we believe to be reliable but are not guaranteed as to accuracy and are not purported to be complete. As such, the information should not be construed as advice designed to meet the particular investment needs of any investor. Furthermore, some of the content contained in our publications and websites may contain forward-looking statements found in information made publicly available by the companies we highlight. This forward looking information fits within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 including statements regarding future possible events, expected continual growth of a company, the potential value of its securities, and look forward in time which include everything other than historical information, involve risk and uncertainties that may affect a company’s actual results of operation. We therefore strongly encourage that you visit and review any and all financial information made publicly available by highlighted companies.
Any opinions expressed in Hugealerts.com and Tradingwire.com reports, company profiles, or other investor relations materials and presentations are subject to change, are expressed and given as of the date of publication, and we disclaim any obligation to advise you of any change in any information contained herein.
The information contained herein is not intended to be used as the basis for investment decisions and should not be construed as advice intended to meet the particular investment needs of any investor. The information contained herein is not a representation or warranty and is not an offer or solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any security. To the fullest extent of the law, Hugealerts.com,Tradingwire.com and their affiliates, specialists, advisors, and partners will not be liable to any person or entity for the quality, accuracy, completeness, reliability or timeliness of the information provided, or for any direct, indirect, consequential, incidental, special or punitive damages that may arise out of the use of information provided to any person or entity (including but not limited to lost profits, loss of opportunities, trading losses and damages that may result from any inaccuracy or incompleteness of this information).
Stock market investing is inherently risky. Hugealerts.com, Tradingwire.com and their affiliates are not responsible for any gains or losses that result from the opinions expressed in press releases, on this website, in its research reports, company profiles or in other investor relations materials or presentations that it publishes electronically or in print.
We strongly encourage all investors to conduct their own research before making any investment decision. For more information on stock market investing, visit the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") at www.sec.gov. and/or the Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) at www.osc.gov.on.ca. and/or the British Columbia Securities Commission (“BCSC”) at https://www.bcsc.bc.ca/.
Income Disclosure
Sideways Frequency has been retained by Banzai International (NASDAQ:BNZI) and has received cash compensation of $ 3,677,000.00 to perform promotional and advertising services for a limited time. This agreement has been ongoing since April 2024 and is related to the engagement of investor awareness services for Banzai International (NASDAQ:BNZI). Sideways Frequency, Hugealerts.com, Tradingwire.com and their partners and affiliates may buy and sell shares of securities or options and warrants of the companies mentioned on this website at any time.
Sideways Frequency LLC and its affiliates may buy and sell shares of securities or options and warrants of the companies mentioned in this publication or website at any time but are not and will not at any time become affiliates or owners of more than 5% of the issued and outstanding stock of the highlighted companies.
Sideways Frequency and its beneficial owners and affiliates, including Hugealerts.com and Tradingwire.com own shares in Banzai International (NASDAQ:BNZI)
Investor awareness services and programs are designed to help small-cap companies communicate their investment characteristics. Sideways Frequency, Hugealerts.com, Tradingwire.com and their investor awareness services include the preparation of a research profile(s), multimedia marketing, and other awareness services based on the publicly available information of our clients and prepared by our partners. As such, our opinion is neither unbiased nor independent, and you should consider that when evaluating our statements regarding Banzai International (NASDAQ:BNZI).