Horizon Partners is thrilled to announce that our client Visme has completed a majority recapitalization with Gearbox Capital in an eight-figure transaction. This marks a meaningful milestone for Visme as it enters a new chapter of growth, product expansion, and category leadership—particularly in the rapidly evolving world of AI-powered creativity tools.
As a design-forward productivity platform empowering teams to create, manage, and deliver stunning visual content, Visme sits at the intersection of creativity and communication. The company is exceptionally well-positioned to capitalize on accelerating demand for AI-enabled productivity and design platforms. With this investment from Gearbox, Visme will be able to further expand its product capabilities and go-to-market footprint while continuing to help individuals and organizations turn ideas into powerful visual narratives.
About Visme
Founded in 2014 by Payman Taei, Visme is a bootstrapped, leading design and productivity platform used by teams and businesses around the world to create presentations, documents, infographics, and branded content at scale. The platform blends ease of use with enterprise-grade functionality—making it ideal for users of all types including marketing teams, internal comms, sales enablement, and operations.
To date, Visme has empowered over 18 million businesses, individuals, and organizations to create boardroom-ready presentations, engaging charts and infographics, professionally branded documents, social media posts, and everything in between.
What sets Visme apart is its vision of democratizing high-quality design by enabling non-designers to produce compelling visuals that communicate effectively. As generative AI reshapes how content is created and consumed, Visme is uniquely positioned to lead the next era of intelligent design workflows that combine automation, speed, and creativity.
With deep investments planned in AI-enabled features, collaboration tools, and cross-platform delivery, Visme is building toward a future in which design productivity is not just faster—but smarter and more impactful.
Horizon’s Role & Product-First Approach
As is often the case with Horizon’s engagements, our relationship with Visme began well before the transaction process. Horizon was first engaged by Visme in early 2022, supporting the company on operational and strategic initiatives over several years. This long-term involvement enabled Horizon to build deep familiarity with Visme’s team, product, customer base, and growth vectors—affording the flexibility to adapt and recalibrate as both the market and the business evolved.
That continuity proved especially valuable amid a dynamic backdrop of macroeconomic uncertainty and accelerating shifts in the creative and productivity landscape—including the rise of AI. Horizon’s product-first M&A model is built for precisely these environments, allowing us to remain tightly aligned with Visme’s leadership, stay responsive to external changes, and ultimately position the business at a moment and with a partner that reflected its long-term vision and potential.
Horizon crafted a transaction narrative that highlighted the company’s unique positioning within the creative productivity ecosystem, its differentiated value proposition, and its readiness to lead in the era of AI-driven content creation. Throughout the engagement, Horizon advised on legal structuring, competitive positioning, M&A landscape, and other key themes such as pricing & packaging, product roadmap, customer retention, data analytics, etc.
The result was a highly customized, relationship-first process that ultimately led to an outstanding outcome—a partnership with Gearbox Capital, a firm that shares Visme’s values around responsible growth, product excellence, and culture.
Payman Taei, Founder and CEO of Visme, expressed enthusiasm for the new partnership:
“Joining forces with Gearbox Capital is an exciting new chapter for Visme. Their experience scaling product-led companies makes them the ideal partner to help us reach our full potential. Together, we’ll expand globally while staying true to our mission: empowering everyone to communicate ideas visually, regardless of their design background. We are very grateful that we were able to work with Horizon Partners to deliver this exceptional fit and combination”
Looking Ahead
With Gearbox Capital’s backing, Visme is poised to accelerate its mission of making powerful visual communication accessible to every team. The investment will support expanded AI development, new collaborative workflows, and broader go-to-market initiatives. Together, Visme and Gearbox will build on a shared vision of responsible growth, customer-centric product design, and category leadership within the emerging AI-enabled productivity landscape.
For more information on this transaction and how Horizon Partners can support your company’s strategic growth, please contact us at contact@horizonpartners.com or connect with us on LinkedIn. Our team remains dedicated to delivering exceptional outcomes through our customized, product-first advisory model.