Mailcoach provides full-featured email marketing tools with a focus on developers and technical users. It supports creating and sending rich email newsletters, automated drip campaigns, and one-off broadcasts with segmentation and A/B testing. The platform also offers an API for transactional emails (e.g. password resets). It can be self-hosted or run as a cloud service, and billing is based on emails sent rather than number of contacts. (The site does not list founders or founding date.)
Clever Elements
Element is a Matrix-based, decentralized open-source communication app offering end-to-end encrypted chat, voice calls and video conferencing.