Noah Dinkin

Founder (stepped down as Chief Executive Officer, May 2026) Stensul

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Noah Dinkin is the founder of Stensul, a New York marketing creation platform built on a narrow and correct observation about how enterprise marketing actually works: the bottleneck in producing a campaign email is rarely the idea or the copy, it is the queue of developers and designers standing between the marketer and a deliverable asset. Stensul removes that queue with governed, no-code building and real-time collaboration, so marketers assemble emails and landing pages themselves inside brand and compliance rules rather than requesting them. Dinkin ran the company as Chief Executive Officer for more than a decade, raising over $57 million across three venture rounds and winning customers including Capital One, Samsung, BMW, Lyft, YouTube and Box, before stepping down from the CEO role in May 2026 in favour of Manlio Carrelli, formerly chief executive of CB Insights. Stensul was his second company; the first was FanBridge, a fan relationship management platform he co-founded in the mid-2000s and which ConvertKit acquired in 2021.

Career Highlights

• Founded Stensul and led it as CEO for over a decade before handing the role to Manlio Carrelli in May 2026.
• Raised more than $57 million across three rounds: a $7 million Series A in 2018 led by Javelin Venture Partners, a $16 million Series B in 2020 led by USVP, and a $34.5 million Series C in 2023 led by Sageview Capital.
• Grew the company to more than 160 employees with offices in New York City and Buenos Aires.
• Built an enterprise customer base including Capital One, Samsung, Grubhub, BMW, Lyft, YouTube and Box.
• Took the product from an email-only tool to a multi-channel marketing creation platform with a no-code landing page builder, generative AI content tooling and email localization.
• Co-founded FanBridge, which grew to manage more than 100 million fans for musicians and creators, and was acquired by ConvertKit in February 2021.

Professional Journey

Dinkin’s entrepreneurial career began in the mid-2000s with FanBridge, a fan relationship management platform he co-founded to help musicians and creators manage email, mobile and social relationships with their audiences directly rather than through intermediaries. It was an early bet on the direct-to-fan model that later became conventional wisdom, and the platform grew to manage more than 100 million fans across its client base. ConvertKit, the creator-focused email marketing company, acquired FanBridge in February 2021.

Stensul came out of a problem he had lived inside at FanBridge: the manual, repetitive, developer-dependent work of building marketing emails at scale. He founded the company in New York – the exact year is disputed between the company’s own current materials and earlier press coverage – and built it around the idea that marketing teams should be able to create assets themselves within guardrails, rather than filing tickets against engineering and design.

The funding history tracks the product’s expansion. A $7 million Series A in 2018, led by Javelin Venture Partners, established the email creation product. A $16 million Series B in 2020, led by U.S. Venture Partners with participation from investors including Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, funded growth into larger enterprises. A $34.5 million Series C in 2023, led by Sageview Capital with USVP, Javelin, Uncork Capital and Lowercase Capital participating alongside LaunchDarkly co-founder Edith Harbaugh, funded the move from an email tool into a broader marketing creation platform – adding no-code landing pages, generative AI content tooling and email localization, and taking the company to over 160 employees across New York and Buenos Aires.

On 11 May 2026, Stensul announced that Dinkin was stepping down as Chief Executive Officer and that Manlio Carrelli, formerly CEO of CB Insights, would take the role with immediate effect. The company framed the timing around AI accelerating the volume and velocity of content creation, and the resulting pressure on enterprise marketing teams to move faster without losing brand integrity or compliance control – a shift it wanted a leader with public and growth-stage AI and enterprise software experience to drive. Dinkin’s own statement described founding and leading the company as one of the most meaningful experiences of his life and wished his successor and the team continued success. Neither the company nor the wire release stated what role, if any, he retains, and no subsequent position elsewhere has been made public.

Education

NYU Stern School of Business

Bachelor’s degree, Marketing